Exposure assessment and risk characterization of aflatoxins intake through consumption of maize products in the adult populations of Serbia,Croatia and Greece |
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Authors: | Bozidar Udovicki Ilija Djekic Jasenka Gajdos Kljusuric Maria Papageorgiou Adriana Skendi Jelena Djugum |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Food Safety and Quality Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia;2. Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia;3. Department of Food Technology, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;4. Ministry of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia |
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Abstract: | The main objective of this research was to perform an exposure assessment of aflatoxins intake through consumption of maize products in Serbia, Croatia, and Greece. Food consumption survey of maize-based products has been performed during 2017 in the three countries with at least 1,000 interviewees per country covering their dietary habits and body weight. Values for the concentration of aflatoxins were extracted from available research published in the last ten years. Finally, a Monte Carlo analysis of 100,000 iterations was performed to estimate the intake of aflatoxins from consumption of maize-based products. Results revealed that the estimated average exposure of adults to aflatoxins, from maize consumption, in each of the three countries was between 0.44 ng kg?1 bw day?1 and 5.59 ng kg?1 bw day?1. Margin of exposure values for the mean exposure levels, in all three countries, were between 30 and 389. Estimations for hepatocellular carcinoma cases/year/105 individuals, depending on the HBsAg+ prevalence, were 0.075–0.098, 0.006–0.008 and 0.020–0.026 for Serbia, Croatia and Greece, respectively. |
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Keywords: | Maize products aflatoxins exposure assessment risk characterization Monte Carlo simulation |
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