Pesticide Residues In Food 1999 Evaluations

During the meeting the FAO Panel of Experts was responsible for reviewing pesticide use patterns (good agricultural practices), data on the chemistry and composition of pesticides and methods of analysis for pesticide residues and for estimating the maximum residue levels that might occur as a a result of the use of pesticides according to good agricultural practices. The WHO Core Assessment Group was responsible for reviewing toxicological and related data and for estimating, where possible, acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) of pesticides for humans. This report contains information on ADIs, maximum residue limits (MRLs) and general principles for the evaluation of pesticides. The supporting documents (on residues and toxicological evaluations) contain detailed monographs on these pesticides and include comments on analytical methods.

During the meeting the FAO Panel of Experts was responsible for reviewing pesticide use patterns (good agricultural practices), data on the chemistry and composition of pesticides and methods of analysis for pesticide residues and for estimating the maximum residue levels that might occur as a a result of the use of pesticides according to good agricultural practices. The WHO Core Assessment Group was responsible for reviewing toxicological and related data and for estimating, where possible, acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) of pesticides for humans. This report contains information on ADIs, maximum residue limits (MRLs) and general principles for the evaluation of pesticides. The supporting documents (on residues and toxicological evaluations) contain detailed monographs on these pesticides and include comments on analytical methods.

(Published by WHO. Available from FAO only by standing order together with Part I - Residues). This volume contains toxicological monographs that were prepared by the 2005 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), which met in Geneva from 20-29 September, 2005. The monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on 15 pesticides that could leave residues in food commodities. These pesticides are acephate, azocyclotin, benalaxyl, carbendazim, chlorpropham, clofentezine, cyhexatin, dimethanamid-P/racemic dimethenamid, ethoxyquin, fenhexamid, imazalil, indoxacarb, novaluron, propamocarb and sulfuryl fluoride. The data summarized in the toxicological monographs served as the basis for the acceptable daily intakes and acute reference doses that were established by the Meeting.

This document, published in two volumes, contains the summaries of the residue data considered and the recommendations made at the 2004 Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the WHO Core Assessment Group.

The toxological monographs and monograph addenda in this volume are prepared by a WHO Core Assessment Group that met with FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment in a Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues in Rome, Italy on 20-29 September 1999. Pyriproxyfen was evaluated for the first time, the other 10 substances had been evaluated at earlier meetings. Four of these - chlormequat, glufosinate-ammonium, propylene thiourea and pyrethrum extract - only information received since the previous evaluations is summarized in monograph addenda. The appropriate earlier documents should be consulted in order to obtain full toxicological profiles. Toxicological monographs were prepared on chlorpyrifos, dimethipin, ethoprophos, permethrin, 2-phenylphenol and its sodium salt, and propargite, summarizing new data and where relevant incorporating information from previous monographs and addenda. Reports and other documents resulting from previous joint meetings on pesticide residues are listed in annex I. The report of the Joint Meeting has been published by the FAO as FAO Plant Production and Protection paper 153, which contains comments on the compounds considered acceptable daily intakes established by the WHO Core Assessment Group and maximum residue limits established by the FAO Panel of Experts, Monographs on residues prepared by the FAO Panel are published as a companion volume - Evaluations 1999 part 1 residues, in the FAO Plant Production and Protection paper series

This two-volume publication contains information on acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and maximum residue levels, general principles for the evaluation of pesticides and the recommendations made at the 2005 Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment (JMPR) and the WHO Core Assessment Group, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland in September 2005.

Part 1 of this report contains summaries of the evaluations of residues in food of the various pesticides considered, together with the recommendations made. Annex 1 contains updated ADIs, PTDI, MRLs, ERLs, STMR and HR levels. Monographs on toxicological evaluations are available as a companion volume.