PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD - 1981


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    EVALUATIONS 1981







    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Rome

    FAO PLANT PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION PAPER 42

    pesticide residues in food:
    1981 evaluations

     the monographs

    data and recommendations
    of the 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, 23 November-2 December 1981

    FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
    Rome 1982

    DICHLOFLUANID

    Explanation

         The Twelfth (1980) Session of CCPR requested the JMPR to
    reconsider the assessment of the data on dichlofluanid in blackberries
    originally made in 1979 when a maximum residue level (MRL) of 15 mg/kg
    was estimated.* This level corresponded to 3-to 7-day interval between
    the last application and harvest.

    RESIDUES IN FOOD

    RESIDUE AND ANALYTICAL ASPECTS

         The Meeting notes that the shortest interval currently proposed
    by national authorities was 7 days and the trial data showed that a
    maximum residue level of 10 mg/kg could be estimated at a 7-day
    interval. The monitoring data from the Netherlands reported in the
    1974 and 1977 monographs supported this estimate, which the Meeting
    agreed was suitable for proposing as an MRL.

              

    *  See Annex II for FAO and WHO documentation.

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Dichlofluanid (FAO/PL:1969/M/17/1)
       Dichlofluanid (WHO Pesticide Residues Series 4)
       Dichlofluanid (Pesticide residues in food: 1977 evaluations)
       Dichlofluanid (Pesticide residues in food: 1979 evaluations)
       Dichlofluanid (Pesticide residues in food: 1982 evaluations)
       Dichlofluanid (Pesticide residues in food: 1983 evaluations)