FAO/WHO joint meetings

FAO and WHO followed in 1961 and 1963". Since 1965 they have been held annually. Each session is formally entitled a Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues and the Environment with the WHO Expert Committee (or Panel) on Pesticide Residues but they are more usually referred to as FAO/WHO Joint Meetings on Pesticide Residues (JMPR). 

The main FAO/WHO expert bodies include the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), the Joint FAO/WHO Meetings on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), and the Joint FAO/ WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA). Codex Alimentarius provides lists of MRLs for pesticides and veterinary drugs, and maximum levels for food additives. 

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) began work in 2000 to develop and provide advice to the Codex Alimentarius Commission on microbiological aspects of food safety. In addition to providing risk assessments, JEMRA develops guidance on related areas such as data collection and the application of risk assessment. JEMRA works most closely with the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, but has also provided advice to other Codex committees, such as the Committee on Fish and Fishery Products. 

JEMRA Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment... 

FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, 17th Meeting, World Health Org Tech. Report Ser. 539, 16 (1974). 

JECFA is an international expert scientific committee that is administered jointly by the FAO and the WHO and evolved from the 1955 FAO/WHO Joint Conference on Food Additives. It has been meeting since 1956, and currently works towards the evaluation of contaminants, naturally occurring toxicants, and residues of veterinary drugs in food. To date, it has evaluated more than 1300 food additives, approximately 25 contaminants and naturally occurring... 

Food Additives Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee See Joint fao/who Expert Meetings (JECFA and JMPR). 

See also Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association Food Additives Food and Drug Administration, US International Fragrance Association (IFRA) Joint FAO/ WHO Expert Meetings (JECFA and JMPR) Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM). 

Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization, 2008. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on the Application of Nanotechnologies in the Food and Agriculture Sectors Potential Food Safety Implications. FAO and WHO, Rome. 

FAOAVHO. 1976. Pesticide residues in food. Report of the 1975 Joint Meeting of the FAO Working Party of Experts on Pesticides Residues and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues. Geneva, Switzerland Food and Agricultural Orgaiuzafion of the United Nations and World Health Organization. FAO Plant Production and Protection Series no. 1, WHO Technical Report Series no. 592. 

The JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives) evaluation process is in progress and Arpink Red was discussed at the 63rd meeting of the joint committee in Geneva in June 2004. 

In September 1999, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) established an acute reference dose (RfD) of 0.1 mg/kg bw and a chronic RfD, or acceptable daily intake (ADI), of 0.01 mg/kg bw/day. (See FAO/WHO Report 153, Pesticide Residues in Pood, Section 4.7, Chlorpyrifos, 1999.)... 

FAO/WHO Summary and conclusions, Joint FAO/WHO expert committee on food additives, Seventy-second meeting (2010) FAO/WHO, Rome, Italy, http //www.who.int/foodsafety/ chem/summary72 rev.pdf... 

Joint FAO/WHO Ad Hoc Expert committee on Energy and Protein Requirements. "Energy and Protein Requirements" WHO Tech. Rep. Ser. 522 FAO Nutr. Meeting Rep. Ser. 52, 1973. 

FAO/WHO. 1991. Pesticide residues in food-Disulfoton. Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and a WHO Expert Group on Pesticide Residues. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, Rome, Italy. Pp. 151 -172. 

JMPR. 2006. The Joint FAO/WHO Meetings on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) website. http /www.who. int/foodsafety/chem/jmpr/en/... 

The WHO/FAO Joint Meeting of Experts on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) has given recommendations on interpretation of cholinesterase inhibition (FAO 1998, 1999), see Section 4.7.7.3.1. 

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