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PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD
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PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD
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Joint Meeting of the
FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticides Residues
in Food and the Environment
and the
WHO Core Assesment Group
Geneva, Switzerland, 20-29 September 2005
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The Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group (JMPR), held in Geneva, 20-29 September 2005, contains a summary of the evaluations of residues in foods of the various pesticides considered, as well as information on the general principles followed by the Meeting (JMPR, 2005). The present document contains summaries of the residues data considered, together with the recommendations made.
The Evaluations are issued in two parts:
Part I: Residues (by FAO);
Part II: Toxicology (by WHO).