Safety evaluation of certain contaminants in food: prepared by the ninety-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (‎JECFA)‎

Overview

The Ninety-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held on a virtual online platform from 24 March to 1 April 2022. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the safety of certain food contaminants, specifically the trichothecenes T-2, HT-2 and 4,15-diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS). The exposure assessment and the chemical characterization had already been carried out at the ninetieth meeting of the Committee. Therefore, the purpose of this meeting was to review the toxicological data on the trichothecenes T-2, HT-2 and DAS and conduct a safety evaluation and a reevaluation of the combined dietary exposure. These monographs summarize the data on specific contaminants in food reviewed by the Committee.