FAO/PL:1969/M/17/1

    WHO/FOOD ADD./70.38

    1969 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
    Group on Pesticide Residues, which met in Rome, 8 - 15 December 1969.

    FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

    WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

    Rome, 1970

    MALATHION

    Explanation

    This pesticide was evaluated in 1966 (FAO/WHO, 1967b)* and new
    information and/or specific aspects of its use have been considered at
    each subsequent meeting, and the appropriate monograph addenda issued
    (FAO/WHO 1968b and 1969b).*

    The Fourth Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues asked
    for clarification concerning the kinds of "fruit and vegetables"
    covered by the tolerance recommendations (FAO/WHO, 1968b and 1969b);*
    also for information on the periods after application of the pesticide
    and/or harvesting at which the tolerances were to apply. Certain
    member countries had expressed the view that the tolerances could be
    lower if a few days were to pass before the tolerance were to be
    applied, as would usually be the case in commerce. The Joint Meeting
    was therefore asked to reconsider this aspect.

    EVALUATION OF RESIDUES IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

    The data on which the previous recommendations had been based were
    reviewed at the Meeting. These data included some evidence to suggest
    that it might be possible to set tolerances lower than 8 ppm for
    certain kinds of fruit. An no new data had been received, since the
    Fourth Session of the Codex Committee and as the Meeting was aware
    that further work on the subject had been carried out since the
    previous review was undertaken, it was decided to postpone the full
    consideration of the matter until 1970, by which time the additional
    data could be made available.

    FURTHER WORK OR INFORMATION

    REQUIRED (for 1970 Meeting)

    1. Information on the residues in fruit and vegetables following uses
       in accordance with good agricultural practice in different
       countries.

    2. Information on the minimum periods likely to pass between
       application and/or harvesting and the time the tolerance is to be
       applied in different countries.

                 
    * See Appendix II
    

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Malathion (ICSC)
       Malathion (FAO Meeting Report PL/1965/10/1)
       Malathion (FAO/PL:CP/15)
       Malathion (FAO/PL:1967/M/11/1)
       Malathion (JMPR Evaluations 2003 Part II Toxicological)
       Malathion (FAO/PL:1968/M/9/1)
       Malathion (AGP:1970/M/12/1)
       Malathion (WHO Pesticide Residues Series 3)
       Malathion (WHO Pesticide Residues Series 5)
       Malathion (Pesticide residues in food: 1977 evaluations)
       Malathion (Pesticide residues in food: 1984 evaluations)
       Malathion (Pesticide residues in food: 1997 evaluations Part II Toxicological & Environmental)
       Malathion (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 30, 1983)