PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD - 1979


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    EVALUATIONS 1979





    Joint meeting of the
    FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues
    in Food and the Environment
    and the
    WHO Expert Group on Pesticide Residues
    Geneva, 3-12 December 1979



    DDT

    Toxicology

    A conditional acceptable daily intake of 0 - 0.005 mg/kg bw was
    established for DDT by the 1969 meeting.  The present meeting was
    provided with detailed data on a new carcinogenicity study and
    summaries of several toxicity studies included in the WHO Criteria
    Document No. 9.

    Additionally, the meeting was informed that there are important
    uses of DDT in agriculture, mainly in tropical countries and that
    under tropical conditions the degradation of DDT proceeds more
    rapidly than was originally believed.  This meeting recommends that
    DDT should be re-evaluated by an early future meeting.
    

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Ddt (ICSC)
       DDT (JECFA Evaluation)
       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: 1980 evaluations)
       DDT (Pesticide residues in food: 1984 evaluations)
       DDT (JMPR Evaluations 2000 Part II Toxicological)