PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD - 1980


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    EVALUATIONS 1980





    Joint meeting of the
    FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues
    in Food and the Environment
    and the
    WHO Expert Group on Pesticide Residues
    Rome, 6-15 October 1980




    DDT

    Explanation

    Pursuant to the JMPR 1979, the Meeting was provided with data on a
    carcinogenicity study with DDT and metabolites.

    Although the agricultural use of DDT has now been restricted in
    many countries, residues of this pesticide and its metabolites can
    be found in various food commodities, as well as in human milk and
    in human tissues, in quantities frequently exceeding the
    conditional ADI set by the 1969 Meeting.

    Pertinent information, which became available in recent years,
    suggests that a reevaluation of the risk to human health from DDT
    and its metabolites should be carried out.

    FURTHER WORK OR INFORMATION

    The Meeting recommends that, as a first step there should be a
    thorough review of all accessible information with the aim of
    presenting comprehensive working papers for consideration by future
    Joint Meetings.

    

    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: 1979 evaluations)
       DDT (Pesticide residues in food: 1984 evaluations)
       DDT (JMPR Evaluations 2000 Part II Toxicological)