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

DDT
Chemical names: 1,1,1-TRICHLORO-2,2-bis(para-CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE
Functional class: CONTAMINANT
Latest evaluation: 1960
Comments: In 2000 JMPR established a provisional tolerable daily intake (PTDI) of 0.01 mg/kg bw for DDT (FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper 163/ 59, Rome, 2001).
Report: NMRS 29/TRS 220-JECFA 5/28
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Ddt (ICSC)
       DDT (PIM 127)
       DDT (FAO Meeting Report PL/1965/10/1)
       DDT (FAO/PL:CP/15)
       DDT (FAO/PL:1967/M/11/1)
       DDT (FAO/PL:1968/M/9/1)
       DDT (FAO/PL:1969/M/17/1)
       DDT (Pesticide residues in food: 1979 evaluations)
       DDT (Pesticide residues in food: 1980 evaluations)
       DDT (Pesticide residues in food: 1984 evaluations)
       DDT (JMPR Evaluations 2000 Part II Toxicological)