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