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Safety evaluation of certain contaminants in food

Prepared by the ninety-first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) - WHO Food Additives Series: 82

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Geneva, Switzerland ;

Pages 362 p.

Author WHO; FAO

Publisher WHO ; FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-137666-9

Synopsis (short abstract) The monographs contained in this volume were prepared at the ninety-first meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met online in November 2020. These monographs summarize the data on selected food contaminants reviewed by the Committee.

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Safety evaluation of certain contaminants in food: prepared by the ninety-first 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; 2022 (WHO Food Additives Series, No. 82). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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