WHO FOOD ADDITIVES SERIES: 53

Prepared by the
Sixty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO
Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

The summaries and evaluations contained in this book are, in most cases, based on unpublished proprietary data submitted for the purpose of the JECFA assessment. A registration authority should not grant a registration on the basis of an evaluation unless it has first received authorization for such use from the owner who submitted the data for JECFA review or has received the data on which the summaries are based, either from the owner of the data or from a second party that has obtained permission from the owner of the data for this purpose.

World Health Organization, Geneva, 2004

IPCS—International Programme on Chemical Safety

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Toxicological evaluation of certain veterinary drug residues in food/prepared by the sixty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA).

(WHO food additives series ; 53)

1. Drug residues—toxicity   2. Veterinary drugs—adverse effects
3. Food contamination   4. Risk assessment   I. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. Meeting (62nd : 2004 : Rome, Italy)   II. Series

ISBN 92 4 166053 8         (NLM classification: WA 712)
ISSN 0300-0923

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

The monographs contained in this volume were prepared at the sixty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, 4-12 February 2003. These monographs summarize the data on the safety of residues in food of selected veterinary drugs reviewed by the Committee.

The sixty-second report of JECFA has been published by the World Health Organization as WHO Technical Report No. 925. Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of JECFA are listed in Annex 1. The participants in the meeting are listed in Annex 3 of the present publication; a summary of the conclusions of the Committee is given in Annex 4. Some of the substances listed in Annex 4 were evaluated at the meeting only for specifications.

Specifications that were developed at the sixty-second meeting of JECFA have been issued separately by FAO as Food and Nutrition Paper No. 41, Addendum 16. The toxicological monographs in the present publication should be read in conjunction with the specifications and the report.

JECFA serves as a scientific advisory body to FAO, WHO, their Member States, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission, primarily through the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants and the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods, regarding the safety of food additives, residues of veterinary drugs, naturally occurring toxicants and contaminants in food. Committees accomplish this task by preparing reports of their meetings and publishing specifications or residue monographs and toxicological monographs, such as those contained in this volume, on substances that they have considered.

The toxicological monographs contained in the volume are based on working papers that were prepared by Temporary Advisers. A special acknowledgement is given at the beginning of each monograph to those who prepared these working papers.

Many proprietary unpublished reports are unreferenced. These were voluntarily submitted to the Committee by various producers of the food additives under review, and in many cases represent the only data available on those substances. The Temporary Advisers based the working papers they developed on all the data that were submitted, and all of these reports were available to the Committee when it made its evaluation. The monographs were edited by H. Mattock, St Jean d'Ardières, France.

The preparation and editing of the monographs included in this volume were made possible through the technical and financial contributions of the Participating Organizations of the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), which supports the activities of JECFA.

The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the organizations participating in the IPCS concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city, or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers' products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the organizations in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned.

Any comments or new information on the biological or toxicological properties of the compounds evaluated in this publication should be addressed to: Joint WHO Secretary of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

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