conducted a cross-sectional study among 480 children (age 9 months to 5 years) in Benin and Togo to identify the
effect of AFs exposure on child growth. Socio-economic conditions did not affect the occurrence of A. flavus and AFs in maize, but higher maternal education was associated with lower frequencies of maize consumption among children. found AFs in eggs (45.2%), rawcows'milk (15.9%), breast milk (4.8%), urine from kwashiorkor and marasmic kwashiorkor children (45.5%) in Cameroon. So AFs seem to be a risk factor that could increase the