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THE SOVEREIGN STATE1 HAS SHOWN GREAT VITALITY IN THE PAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY. IN SPITE OF GLOOMY FOREBODINGS DURING WORLD WAR II,2 AND OCCASIONAL DOUBTS ABOUT WHETHER THERE CAN POSSIBLY BE A CONTINUANCE OF THE CREATION OF NEW STATES, THE NUMBER OF THOSE ADMITTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ALMOST DOUBLED SINCE 1959 WHEN THERE WERE 82 MEMBERS. AFRICA, THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, AND THE CARIBBEAN HAVE CONTRIBUTED MOST OF THESE NEW ENTITIES, ALL OF THEM CARVED OUT OF FORMER EMPIRES, BUT USUALLY RETAINING THE BOUNDARIES DRAWN BY THEIR FORMER COLONIAL MASTERS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THE LEADERS OF INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN ALL CONTINENTS HAVE SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH SOVEREIGN STATES RATHER THAN SOME OTHER SORT OF POLITICAL FORM.

Open Access Journal; Published online: 4 April 2018 ; Mycotoxins are major food contaminants affecting global food security, especially in low and middle-income countries. The European Union (EU) funded project, MycoKey, focuses on "Integrated and innovative key actions for mycotoxin management in the food and feed chains" and the right to safe food through mycotoxin management strategies and regulation, which are fundamental to minimizing the unequal access to safe and sufficient food worldwide. As part of the MycoKey project, a Mycotoxin Charter (charter.mycokey.eu) was launched to share the need for global harmonization of mycotoxin legislation and policies and to minimize human and animal exposure worldwide, with particular attention to less developed countries that lack effective legislation. This document is in response to a demand that has built through previous European Framework Projects—MycoGlobe and MycoRed—in the previous decade to control and reduce mycotoxin contamination worldwide. All suppliers, participants and beneficiaries of the food supply chain, for example, farmers, consumers, stakeholders, researchers, members of civil society and government and so forth, are invited to sign this charter and to support this initiative.