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Summary of Evaluations Performed by the
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

ACRYLONITRILE
Functional class: CONTAMINANT
Latest evaluation: 1984
Tolerable Intake: PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE
Comments: The use of food-contact materials from which acrylonitrile may migrate is provisionally accepted on condition that the amount of the substance migrating into food is reduced to the lowest level technologically attainable.
Report: TRS 710-JECFA 28/23
Tox monograph: FAS 19-JECFA 28/117
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Acrylonitrile (EHC 28, 1983)
       Acrylonitrile (HSG 1, 1986)
       Acrylonitrile (ICSC)
       Acrylonitrile (WHO Food Additives Series 19)
       Acrylonitrile (FAO Meeting Report PL/1965/10/2)
       Acrylonitrile (CICADS 39, 2002)
       Acrylonitrile (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 71, 1999)