FAO/PL:1968/M/9/1

    WHO/FOOD ADD./69.35

    1968 EVALUATIONS OF SOME PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD

    THE MONOGRAPHS

    Issued jointly by FAO and WHO

    The content of this document is the result of the deliberations of the
    Joint Meeting of the FAO Working Party of Experts and the WHO Expert
    Committee on Pesticide Residues, which met in Geneva, 9-16 December,
    1968.

    FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

    WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

    Geneva, 1969

    TRICHLOROETHYLENE

    Although this compound has not been evaluated, its use in combination
    with other fumigants raises certain problems which are discussed in
    the monograph addendum on carbon disulfide.

    Further work or information

    Required (before an acceptable daily intake, tolerances or
    negligible residue levels can be established)

    Information on the level of residues that may persist in the unchanged
    form after processing treated food products.
    

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Trichloroethylene (EHC 50, 1985)
       Trichloroethylene (ICSC)
       Trichloroethylene (WHO Food Additives Series 10)
       TRICHLOROETHYLENE (JECFA Evaluation)
       Trichloroethylene (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 63, 1995)