World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 417: Pesticide Residues in Food

By World Health Organization

Book Id: WPLBN0000055435
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 417: Pesticide Residues in Food
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
1. INTRODUCTION In the modern world the use of pesticides is essential. By their very nature these compounds are toxic to a variety of forms of life. Consequently, for whatever purposes they are required, they must be properly employed so as to avoid hazard to man and contamination of the environment. Recognizing this fact, a Joint Meeting of an FA0 Panel of Experts on the Use of Pesticides in Agriculture and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in 1961 (FAOIWHO , 1962) recommended that studies be undertaken to evaluate this hazard on the basis of the toxicological and other pertinent data on those pesticides known to leave residues in food, even when used in accordance with good agricultural practice. Subsequently, joint meetings of the FA0 Committee on Pesticides in Agriculture and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues were held in 1963 and 1965. The reports of these meetings (FAOIWHO, 1964 ; FAOIWHO, 1965a), which were concerned primarily with the recommendation of acceptable daily intakes, and the supporting documents (FA01 WHO, 1965b and c) were then considered by the FA0 Working Party on Pesticide Residues with a view to recommending tolerances and appropriate methods of analysis for certain pesticides used on cereals (FAO, 1966). To minimize the delay in recommending acceptable daily intakes, tolerances and methods of analysis for additional pesticides, joint meetings of the FA0 Working Party of Experts on Pesticide Residues and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues (referred to hereafter as Joint FAOjWHO Meetings on Pesticide Residues ) were held in 1966 and 1967. In the reports of these meetings (FAOjWHO, 1967a, 1968a), the recommended acceptable daily intakes and tolerances for a number of pesticides

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Modification of the agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Principles adopted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Variability of the composition of certain pesticides . . . . 2.5 Use of fumigants and fumigant mixtures . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Disappearance of pesticide residues . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 Pesticide residues in animal feedstuffs . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 Environmental contamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9 Matters relating to the establishment of ADI's . . . . . . . 2.10 Methods of analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.11 Submission of scientific information to FA0 and WHO . . 2.12 Reference publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . Relationship of actual intakes of pesticides to their acceptable daily intakes and to tolerances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . Evaluation of data for ADI's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . Evaluation of data for tolerances and practical residue limits . . . 6 . Future work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . Recommendations to FA0 and WHO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . Recommendations to member governments . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 1 . Index to documentation on specific compounds . . . . Annex 2 . Summary of recommended acceptable daily intakes. tolerances. temporary tolerances and practical residue limits as of December 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 3 . Further work or information required (or desirable) . . Page 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 11 12