The present work was intended to investigate the feeding of students at school age from four state and private network schools of the town of Lavras, MG, supposedly contaminated with mycotoxins . The sample universe comprised elementary school 1st and 2nd grade students amounting to 197 students. The evaluation of the students' consumption was performed by utilizing two sorts of dietary inquires: the 24-hour recordatory and the feeding frequency questionnaire (FFQ). In possession of the data concerning the 24-hour recordatory and the FFQ, promoted a selection among the quoted foods, characterizing them as foods with greater potential of risk as regards the contamination with mycotoxins. The descriptive analyses of the population of students at school indicated a population with a good sample distribution as related with sex with 45.2% ( boys) and 54.8% (girls). No relationship between degree of education of the mothers and the feeding standard of the students correspondent to the 1st degree of elementary teaching. Out of the feeds selected in the group of mycotoxin contamination risk, it was found that 49.7% of the children interviewed presented a intake superior to 72.6% of its total caloric value (TCV) obtained from feeds of that group although they have been observed dissimilarities among the schools with relation to the feeds ingested. The analyses of the individual energy consumption presented a risk intake of foods above 72.5%, 41.5% being stood for at School A, 61% at School B, 33.3% at School C and 64.7% at School D. It follows, in this research, that the population presents a profile of high intake of foods considered of risk for mycotoxins, existing the need of adequacy of the diet, aiming to reduce the exposition to that risk.
mycotoxins; feeding; students at school
