Pesticide Residues in Food: Residues

The report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and WHO Toxicological Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), held in Geneva, 17 to 26 September 2001, contains a summary of the evaluations of residues in food of the various pesticides considered as well as information on the general principles followed by the Meeting. 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) and Part II: Toxicology (by WHO). Special attention is drawn to Annex I containing updated ADIs, PTDs, MRLs, ERLs, STMR and HR levels which also appear in full as part of the main report of the Meeting.