Research Article
Dietary Exposure to Aflatoxins in Some Randomly Selected Foods and Cancer Risk Estimations of Cereals Consumed on a Ghanaian Market
Table 6
Assessment of risk of cancer for aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) 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 | 23.03 | 17.37 | 0.0911 | | Toddlers | 12–35 months | 9.8 | 13.63 | 29.35 | 0.054 | | Children | 36 months–10 years | 26 | 5.14 | 77.82 | 0.020 | | Adolescents | 11–17 years | 46.3 | 2.89 | 138.40 | 0.011 | | Adults | >18 years | 60.7 | 2.20 | 181.8 | 8.70x10−3 |
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Mean of AFB1-19.85 μg/kg; daily intake of cereals for infants was halved (0.5x 0.0673 kg); Av. potency aflatoxins—0.00396
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