Research Article
Occurrence of Total Aflatoxins, Aflatoxin B1, and Ochratoxin A in Chicken and Eggs in Some Cameroon Urban Areas and Population Dietary Exposure
Table 1
Descriptive statistics of data collected from the households’ survey in the selected Cameroon urbanized areas (N = 900).
| | Variable | Total population | Centre | Littoral | West |
| | HH composition | | HH respondents | Female (n (%)) | 552 (61.3) | 210 (70.0) | 186 (62.0) | 156 (52.0) | | Male (n (%)) | 348 (38.7) | 90 (30.0) | 114 (38.0) | 144 (48.0) | | Total people, n | 4705 | 1565 | 1582 | 1558 | | Children, 4–12 y (n (%)) | 1293 (27.5) | 470 (30.0) | 410 (25.9) | 413 (25.5) | | Teenagers, 13–19 y (n (%)) | 1766 (37.5) | 520 (33.2) | 610 (38.6) | 636 (40.8) | | Adult, 20–59 y (n (%)) | 1311 (27.9) | 475 (30.4) | 422 (26.7) | 414 (26.7) | | Elderly, ≥60 y (n (%)) | 335 (7.1) | 100 (6.4) | 140 (8.8) | 95 (6.0) |
| | Education level of HH respondents (%) | | No schooling | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 8.0 | | Primary | 13.7 | 21.0 | 2.0 | 18.0 | | Secondary | 34.3 | 34.0 | 54.0 | 15.0 | | University | 47.3 | 41.0 | 42.0 | 59.0 |
| | HH respondents’ knowledge (%) | | Fungal contamination | 95.7 | 96.0 | 98.0 | 93.0 | | Mycotoxin contamination | 23.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | 52.0 | | Health risks associated with fungal contamination | 18.0 | 23.0 | 2.0 | 29.0 |
| | HH chicken consumption frequency (%) | | Daily | 41.0 | 45.0 | 36.0 | 42.0 | | Weeklyc | 13.7 | 15.0 | 12.0 | 14.0 | | Monthlyd | 30.0 | 25.0 | 34.0 | 31.0 | | Annuallye | 16.3 | 15.0 | 18.0 | 13.0 |
| | HH egg consumption frequency (%) | | Daily | 69.0 | 65.0 | 70.0 | 72.0 | | Weeklyc | 17.0 | 18.0 | 17.0 | 16.0 | | Monthlyd | 9.3 | 12.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | | Annuallye | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
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HH: households; cjust once/week; dat least once/ month; eat least once/year.
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