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

    PARATHION

    Explanation

    This pesticide was evaluated in 1965 (FAO/WHO, 1965b)* and further
    data were considered in 1967 (FAO/WHO, 1968b).*

    At the Fourth Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues
    attention was drawn to variations in the records of Joint Meetings
    with regard to the tolerances for peaches, apricots and citrus fruit;
    the report on the 1967 meeting (FAO/WHO, 1968a)* lists the tolerance
    figure as 0.5 whereas the corresponding monograph (FAO/WHO, 1968b)*
    lists it as 1.0.

    Correction of the recorded tolerances recommendations for "peaches"
    apricots and citrus fruit" and for "other fresh fruit"

    After considering the monographs for the 1965 and 1967 Joint Meetings
    together with relevant data, the Meeting agreed that the
    recommendation in the table of the report on the 1967 Meeting
    (FAO/WHO, 1968a)* was erroneous and that the tolerance figures
    recommended should be recorded as:

    Peaches, apricots and citrus fruits   -    1 ppm

    Other fresh fruit                     -    0.5 ppm

                 
    * See Appendix II
    

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Parathion (HSG 74, 1992)
       Parathion (ICSC)
       Parathion (FAO Meeting Report PL/1965/10/1)
       Parathion (FAO/PL:1967/M/11/1)
       Parathion (AGP:1970/M/12/1)
       Parathion (Pesticide residues in food: 1984 evaluations)
       Parathion (Pesticide residues in food: 1995 evaluations Part II Toxicological & Environmental)
       Parathion (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 30, 1983)