Safety evaluation of certain food contaminants: Prepared by the ninety-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

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Safety evaluation of certain food contaminants: Prepared by the ninety-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

WHO Food Additives Series, No. 84

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Geneva, Switzerland ;

Pages 176 p.

Author WHO; FAO;

Publisher WHO ; FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-138760-3

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Synopsis (short abstract) This volume contains a monograph prepared at the ninety-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met virtually from 24 March–1 April 2022.The monograph addendum in this volume summarizes the data on a contaminant group (trichothecenes T-2 and HT-2 toxins) discussed at the ninety-third meeting. This volume and others in the WHO Food Additives series contain information that is useful to those who produce and use food additives and veterinary drugs and those involved with controlling contaminants in food, government and food regulatory officers, industrial testing laboratories, toxicological laboratories and universities.

Statutory body / Meeting title Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

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Safety evaluation of certain food contaminants: prepared by the ninety-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). Geneva: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; 2024 (WHO Food Additives Series, No. 84). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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