Record Nr.

UNINA9910279582403321

Titolo

Evaluation of Certain Veterinary Drug Residues in Food [[electronic resource] ] : WHO Technical Report Series, No 900

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2001

ISBN

92-4-068038-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 p.)

Collana

WHO technical report series Evaluation of certain veterinary drug residues in food

Disciplina

363.192

610 s 615.9/54

Soggetti

Food additives

Food additives - Analysis

Veterinary drugs

Veterinary drug residues

Food contamination

Maximum Allowable Concentration

Food Contamination

Drug Residues

Veterinary Drugs

Occupational Exposure

Environmental Pollution

Body Burden

Pharmaceutical Preparations

Environmental Exposure

Public Health

Chemicals and Drugs

Environment and Public Health

Health Care

World Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. General considerations; 3. Comments on residues of specific veterinary drugs; 4. Future work; 5. Recommendations; Acknowledgement; References; Annex 1 Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives; Annex 2 Recommendations on compounds on the agenda and further information required; Annex 3 Proposed draft definitions of commodities for Volume 3 of Residues of veterinary drugs in foods

Sommario/riassunto

This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of residues of certain veterinary drugs in food and to recommend maximum levels for such residues in food. The first part of the report considers general principles regarding the evaluation of veterinary drugs within the terms of reference of JECFA, including compounds without an ADI or MRL; recommendations on principles and methods in derivation of MRLs, including a new procedure for estimating chronic dietary intakes; the use of a spreadsheet-based procedure for the statistical evaluati