Dietary Exposure to Aflatoxins in Some Randomly Selected Foods and Cancer Risk Estimations of Cereals Consumed on a Ghanaian Market

Table 3

Summary of statistics of aflatoxins concentrations (μg/kg) in the various food categories sold in Ho central market.

Food category	Aflatoxin	Mean	Median	Standard deviation	Variance	Skewness	Kurtosis	Sig.(2-tailed)	Percentiles
									25	50	75
Animal feed	AFB1	24.16	2.53	56.99	3248.17	3.37	12.13	0.09	0.86	2.53	16.78
	AFB2	1.29	0.72	1.85	3.41	1.87	3.29	0.01	0.00	0.72	1.62
	AFG1	0.37	0.00	0.54	0.29	0.83	−1.37	0.01	0.00	0.00	1.03
	AFG2	0.06	0.00	0.26	0.07	4.24	18.00	0.33	0.00	0.00	0.00
	AFtotal	25.86	4.50	57.59	3316.92	3.27	11.48	0.07	1.44	4.50	18.58
Fruits and vegetables	AFB1	4.15	2.13	5.23	27.30	1.94	3.09	0.00	0.86	2.13	5.24
	AFB2	0.97	0.79	1.06	1.12	0.89	−0.26	0.00	0.00	0.79	1.62
	AFG1	0.55	0.00	0.92	0.86	2.45	7.39	0.02	0.00	0.00	1.03
	AFG2	0.60	0.00	0.27	0.07	4.24	18.00	0.33	0.00	0.00	0.00
	AFtotal	5.68	2.69	6.45	41.61	1.67	2.22	0.00	1.44	2.69	7.39

Animal feed (n = 18), Fruits and vegetables (n = 18)