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

Table 5

Assessment of risk of cancer for total aflatoxins through cereals consumption.

Developmental stage	Age definition	Average body weight (kg)	Estimated daily intake (EDI) (ng/Kg bw/day)	Margin of exposure	Cancer risk (Cases/100,000 person/yr)
Infants	0–11 months	2.9	283.70	1.409	1.122
Toddlers	12–35 months	9.8	167.90	2.382	0.665
Children	36 months – 10 years	26	63.28	6.321	0.250
Adolescents	11–17 years	46.3	35.54	11.25	0.141
Adults	>18 years	60.7	27.10	14.76	0.107

Mean aflatoxin—24.45 μg/kg; Daily intake of cereals for infants was halved (0.5x 0.0673 kg)