Guidelines for predicting dietary intake of pesticide residues / prepared by the Global Environment Monitoring System - Food Contamination Monitoring and Assessment Programme (GEMS/Food)
in collaboration with the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues, Revised edition
Overview
In 1989, guidelines for predicting dietary intake of pesticide residues were prepared by the Global Environment Monitoring System - Food Contamination Monitoring and Assessment Programme (GEMS/Food) in collaboration with the CCPR (WHO, 1989). Based on these guidelines, GEMS/Food routinely provided international dietary exposure assessment calculations for pesticides considered by the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticides Residues (JMPR) and the CCPR.
The guidelines were effective in resolving concerns for dietary intake for most pesticides; however, exposure assessments for a number of pesticides indicated that more accurate methods for estimating intake of pesticide residues indicated that more accurate methods for estimating intake of pesticide residues were required.
On the request of the CCPR and consistent with a recommendation of the FAO/WHO consultation was covered 2-6 May 1995 in York, United Kingdom to revise the 1989 guidelines. Based on the report of this consultation (FAO/WHO, 1995b), the present revised guidelines have been prepared by GEMS/Food.
The revised guidelines address methods for exposure assessment of longterm hazards posed by pesticide residues to be conducted at the international and national levels.