Safety evaluation of certain contaminants in food: prepared by the ninetieth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
WHO Food additives series; 81
Overview
This volume contains monographs prepared at the ninetieth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met virtually online from 26 October to 6 November 2020.
The detailed monographs in this volume summarize the technical, analytical, dietary exposure and toxicological data on a number of groups of previous cargo contaminants: group 2 – alcohols, group 5 – butyl ethers, group 3 – oils and waxes and group 4 – solutions. It also contains an addendum on the trichothecenes, T-2 and HT-2.
This volume and others in the WHO Food Additives`series
contain information that is useful to those who produce
and use food additives and veterinary drugs and
those involved with controlling contaminants in food,
government and food regulatory officers, industrial
testing laboratories, toxicological laboratories and
universities.
