Table 4.
Estimated daily intake of aflatoxin B1 (ng/g) through rice, bread, puffed corn snack and peanut samples marketed in Tehran, June 2005.
| Samples | Mean a, b | Max |
Daily intake
(ng /Kg bw c /day) |
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| Mean | 90th percentile | 95th percentile | Max | |||
| Rice | 2.29 | 30.63 | 3.49 | 4.07 | 12.12 | 46.82 |
| Bread | NAd | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Puffed corn snack e | 0.12 | 0.43 | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.46 | 0.43 |
| Peanuts | 1.54 | 9.95 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.14 |
| Total | - | - | 3.62 | 4.31 | 12.69 | 47.39 |
a: Mean of all samples; b: The not detected values were replaced by half the limit of quantification; c: Body weight (bw) for adults is assumed 70 Kg; d: NA: Not applicable; e: Mean weight of 65 g is assumed for each package