Safety evaluation of certain contaminants in food: prepared by the ninety-first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
WHO Food additives series; 82
Overview
This volume contains monographs prepared at the ninety-first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee
on Food Additives (JECFA), which met virtually online
from 1 to 12 February 2021.
The detailed monographs in this volume summarize data on specific contaminants in food. Individual monographs present the assessment of exposure to cadmium from all food sources, the technical, analytical, dietary exposure and toxicological data on ergot alkaloids, an assessment of five substances that may occur as previous cargoes, and a revision of the specifications for steviol glycosides.
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.
