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Methodology design of the regional Sub-Saharan Africa Total Diet Study in Benin, Cameroon, Mali and Nigeria

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 57 p.

Author ​Ingenbleek, L., Jazet, E., Dzossa, A.D., Adebayo, S.B., Ogungbangbe, J., Dansou, S., Diallo, Z.J., Kouebou, C., Adegboye, A., Hossou, E., Coulibaly, S., Eyangoh, S., Le Bizec, B., Verger, P., Kamanzi, J., Merten, C., Leblanc, J.-C.

Publisher Elsevier B.V. ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) The core food model was described more than three decades ago, and has been used ever since to identify main food contributors to dietary intakes for both nutrients and other food chemicals. The Sub-Saharan Africa Total Diet Study (SSA-TDS) uses this model to describe the food consumption habits of some selected populations of Benin, Cameroon, Mali, and Nigeria, prior to use in the completion of quantitative risk assessments with regard to food chemicals. Food consumption data were derived from food expenditure data contained in national household budget surveys that were provided by the national institutes of statistics in each country. A classification of African foods was established for the purpose of the study and core foods were selected, so as to reflect 96 ± 1% of the average national total diet expressed in weight. Populations from eight study centers were selected by national stakeholders. This approach involves the purchase of 4020 individual foods, prepared as consumed and pooled into 335 food composite samples, for analysis of mycotoxins, PAHs, PCBs and dioxins, pesticides, metals and trace elements, PFAs, and BFRs. This sampling plan aims to provide a representative, cost effective, and replicable approach for deterministic dietary exposure assessments in developing countries.

This is the Accepted Author Manuscripts' version of an article published externally in Food and Chemical Toxicology Volume 109, Part 1, in November 2017

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Ingenbleek, L., Jazet, E., Dzossa, A.D., Adebayo, S.B., Ogungbangbe, J., Dansou, S., Diallo, Z.J., Kouebou, C., Adegboye, A., Hossou, E., Coulibaly, S., Eyangoh, S., Le Bizec,
B., Verger, P., Kamanzi, J., Merten, C., Leblanc, J.-C., Methodology design of the regional Sub-Saharan Africa Total Diet Study in Benin, Cameroon, Mali and Nigeria, Food and Chemical Toxicology (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2017.08.017


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