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75th Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) meeting - Residues of veterinary drugs. Summary and conclusions, 2012

Year of publication 2012

Pages 11p.

Publisher FAO/WHO ;

Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) A meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Rome, Italy, from 8 to 17 November 2011. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate residues of certain veterinary drugs in food.The present meeting was the seventy-fifth in a series of similar meetings and was the nineteenth meeting of JECFA convened to consider residues of veterinary drugs in food. The tasks before the Committee were to further elaborate principles for evaluating the safety of residues of vet erinary drugs in food and for establishing acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and recommend maximum residue limits (MRLs) for certain drugs when they are administered to food-producing animals in accordance with good practice in the use of veterinary drugs. In total, eight veterinary drugs were considered by the Committee.

Meeting symbol JECFA/75/SC

Meeting Session Number Sess. 75

Language English

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