Technical Report Series articles from September 2005

Technical Report Series archives from September 2005

1. Introduction.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)(Brief article)(Conference notes)
September 1, 2005... A meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, from 8 to 17 February 2005. The meeting was opened by...

2. General considerations.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)(Conference notes)
September 1, 2005... The tasks before the Committee were: --to elaborate further principles for evaluating the safety of food contaminants (section 2); and --to undertake toxicological evaluations of certain food contaminants (section 3, and Annex 2)....

3. The toxicological evaluation of compounds on the agenda.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)
September 1, 2005... The Committee considered three food contaminants for the first time and re-evaluated three others. Information on the safety evaluations is summarized in Annex 2. 3.1 Acrylamide Explanation Acrylamide (C[H.sub.2]=[CHCONH.sub.2]...

3. The toxicological evaluation of compounds on the agenda: 3.4 Inorganic tin.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)
September 1, 2005... 3.4 Inorganic tin Explanation Inorganic tin is found in food in the +2 and +4 oxidation states; it may occur in cationic form (stannous and stannic compounds) or as anions (stannites or stannates). Inorganic tin was evaluated by the...

4. Future work.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2005... * The Committee noted the need to develop methodologies to assess the short-term dietary intakes of contaminants. For this, guidelines need to be developed on the data sets and equations that should be used to calculate short-term dietary...

5. Recommendations.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)(Conference notes)
September 1, 2005... 1. The Committee recommended that FAO and WHO seek ways to make the calls for data more widely known in developing countries at both technical and policy levels and to directly contact governments and other potential data providers to...

Acknowledgements.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)
September 1, 2005... The Committee learned with sadness of the recent passing of Professor Philippe Shubik who had been a member of the Committee for the first time at its fifth meeting in 1961 and had served more or less continuously as a member or chairman...

References.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)(Bibliography)
September 1, 2005... (1.) Principles for modelling low-dose response for risk assessment of chemicals, International Programme on Chemical SafetyWorkshop, Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004 (http://www.who.int/ipcs/methods/...

Annex 1: reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)
September 1, 2005... 1. General principles governing the use of food additives (First report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives). FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series, No. 15, 1957; WHO Technical Report Series, No. 129, 1957 (out of print)....

Annex 2: summary of toxicological evaluations.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)
September 1, 2005... 1. Acrylamide Estimated intake: mean intake, 0.001 mg/kg of body weight per day; high intake, 0.004mg/kg of body weight per day NOEL/BMDL (mg/kg MOE at of body ...

Annex 3: approach to dose--response modelling.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)
September 1, 2005... At the present meeting, cancer dose-response data were analysed by dose-response modelling, in accordance with the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) document Principles for modeling dose-response analysis for the risk...

Corrigendum.(EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD CONTAMINANTS)(Correction notice)
September 1, 2005... WHO Technical Report Series 925: Evaluation of certain veterinary drug residues in food, 2004. Doramectin, p71, footnote (a), line 1: Replace "15mg/kg" with 15[micro]g/kg.