Safe food is needed for everybody, from growing children and adolescents to pregnant women and older adults. Unsafe food and water are linked to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people annually including many children. Food safety is becoming increasingly important in the context of changing...

We live in an age that increasingly calls for national or regional management of global risks. This article discusses the contributions that expert elicitation can bring to efforts to manage global risks and identifies challenges faced in conducting expert elicitation at this scale. In doing so it...

This bulletin discusses safety of food additives, residues of veterinary drugs, naturally occurring toxicants and contaminants in food, focusing on safety evaluation of specific food additives (other than flavouring agents).

This bulletin discusses safety of food additives, residues of veterinary drugs, naturally occurring toxicants and contaminants in food, focusing on safety evaluation of specific food additives (other than flavouring agents), safety evaluation of groups of related flavouring agents, and exposure...

This volume contains monographs prepared at the 85th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) in Geneva, Switzerland. The monographs summarize the data on the safety of residues in selected food of selected veterinary drug reviewed. The volume highlights residues of...

This work discusses the sources of unavoidable and/or unintentional veterinary drug exposure at the feed mill and farm level, human health risks due to the presence of veterinary drug residues in food from unavoidable and unintended carryover in feed and risk management strategies for carryover of...

This report summarises the outcome of the 39th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) that emphasised the significance for the food safety community to play its part in addressing the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), its growing threat to human, animal, and plant...

Data are presented on the biological or toxicological properties as well as the safety of residues in food of selected veterinary drugs, viz. diflubenzuron, ivermectin, sisapronil and teflubenzuron.

This volume of FAO JECFA Monographs contains residue evaluation of certain veterinary drugs prepared at the 85th Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, 17-26 October 2017. This was the twenty-fifth JECFA meeting specifically convened to consider...

The Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products is the essential reference point for technical guidance on the harvesting, processing, transport and sale of fish and fishery products. This updated version of the text introduces valuable additional information on how to minimize the risk of...