PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD - 1983


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    EVALUATIONS 1983





    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, 5 - 14 December 1983

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Rome 1985


    FENSULFOTHION

    RESIDUES

    Explanation

    The Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues requested the Meeting to
    reconsider the definition of the residue. The original data submitted
    to the 1979 Meeting 1/ were studied for this purpose. The residues in
    supervised trials were measured after oxidation with p-chlorperbenzoic
    acid, which converts all the residues to the sulphone of the oxygen
    analogue. The proportion of different metabolites was not measured (or
    reported) in any of the crops having a maximum residue limit over the
    limit of determination in spite of the availability of an analytical
    procedure capable of detecting the metabolites separately.
    Consequently, the definition of the residue cannot be changed.



















              

    1/ See Annex 2 for FAO and WHO documentation.

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Fensulfothion (ICSC)
       Fensulfothion (WHO Pesticide Residues Series 2)
       Fensulfothion (Pesticide residues in food: 1982 evaluations)