PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD - 1979
Sponsored jointly by FAO and WHO
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.