Exposure factors through cassava, maize, rice, tomato, and yam diets
Description
The study data was collected in the western regions of Ghana where gold mining activities are rampant. The specific cities where where respondents were sampled are Akontombra, Asafo, Bibiani, Bodi, Joaboso, Sefwi Bekwai, and Wiawso. The exposure factors through cassava, maize, rice, tomato, and yam diets were determined using dietary recall survey. The exposure factors were exposure frequency, exposure duration, mass of food and consumers' body weight. The body weight of consumers of consumers were measured using a balance. In all 308 consumers responded positively to the survey. Following US EPA guidance, The @Risk (Palisade, 2018) was used to fit the exposure factors to distribution in MS Excel (Microsoft Office 2016). This data set consists of the minimum, maximum, mode, mean, 5th and 95th percentiles of commonly consumed indigenous diets. The distribution parameters were reported in this dataset.