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EXTOXNET FAQs - Food Safety Issues of Concern
... food additive is assessed, and information about specific food additives which have aroused concern. Food Contaminants - Discusses such topics as: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, PCBs, Dioxins, and Pesticides in your food Food ...
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EXTOXNET FAQs SITELIST
... Food Additive Safety | The Approval Process for Food Additives | Toxicity Testing Methods | Postmarketing Surveillance | Specific Food Additives Food Contaminants | Lead | Mercury | Cadmium | PCBs | Dioxins | Garden Contamination | Pesticides in Food Irradiated Food | What is food ...
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EXTOXNET FAQs - Food Additives
... food additive is assessed, and information about specific food additives which have aroused concern. Food additives defined How is the safety of food additives assessed? Why are additives necessary? Specific Food ...
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Glossary of Terms
... impurity or substance that pollutes another; an agent of contamination accidently or inadvertantly introduced into food, water, soil, or air, that may or may not be harmful or potentially poisonous. Back ... the chemical after it has been released into the environment. The fate depends upon the specific characteristics of the chemical and the physical and biological forces which may act upon that ...
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Risk Characterization
... permissible exposure limits in the workplace, and pesticide residue limits in food and feed products. Note that for those with small body weights ... in no other species it may be an indicator for a specific biochemical pathway found in male mice that does not exist ... Links and Related Topics: Issues raised by the implementation of The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 List of Pesticides Banned and ...
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EXTOXNET FAQs - Questions About Pesticides in Food
... Food - UCD Environmental Toxicology Newsletter US EPA OPP - Concerned Citizens US EPA - List of Pesticides Banned and Severely Restricted in the U.S. Environmental Toxicology Concepts and Information About Specific Chemicals FDA/CFSAN National Food Safety Initiative FDA/CFSAN President Clinton Announces Initiative to ...
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EXTOXNET PIP - ACETOCHLOR
... a restricted use pesticide (RUP) with a toxicity classification of I (Highly toxic). Check with specific state regulations for local restrictions which may apply. Products containing acetochlor must bear the signal ... 21 mg/kg/day based on reductions in body weight, accompanied by slight reductions in food consumption and significant increases in relative organ weights at 160 mg/kg/day, the highest ...
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EXTOXNET PIP - BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS
... natural enemies of many crop pests. There are different strains of B.t., each with specific toxicity to particular types of insects: B.t. aizawai (B.t.a.) is used against ... appears to have mutagenic potential in plant tissue. Thus, extensive use of B.t. on food plants might be hazardous to these crops [143]. There is no evidence of mutagenicity in ...
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EXTOXNET PIP - CAPTAN
... is a General Use Pesticide (GUP), though most uses of the compound on food crops were cancelled in the U.S. in 1989. It is categorized ... up to 750 mg/kg/day of Orthocide for 4 weeks had decreased food intake and body weights [6]. No deaths occurred in pigs given as ... doses of about 300 mg/kg/day [6,8]. Organ toxicity: Most organ-specific effects are found in the kidneys of rats at and above doses of ...
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EXTOXNET PIP - DALAPON
... plant growth regulator used to control specific annual and perennial grasses, such as quackgrass, Bermuda grass, Johnson grass, as well as cattails and rushes. The major food crop use of dalapon is ...
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