Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues

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

Monographs from the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives and from the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues... 

Toxicological evaluations of food additives and of contaminants, naturally occurring toxicants and residues of veterinary drugs in food produced by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), and of pesticide residues in food by the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) are used by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and national governments to set international food standards and safe levels for protection of the consumer. 

The Joint FAO/WHO Meetings on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) began work in 1963 following a decision that the Codex Alimentarius Commission should recommend MRLs for pesticides and environmental contaminants in specific food products to ensure the safety of foods containing residues. It was also decided that JMPR should recommend methods of sampling and analysis. There is close cooperation between JMPR and the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR). CCPR identifies those substances requiring priority evaluation. After JMPR evaluation, CCPR discusses the recommended MRLs and, if they are acceptable, forwards them to the Commission for adoption as Codex MRLs. 

Another well-known example within the pesticide area is the group ADI of 0-0.03 mg/kg bw/day allocated to dithiocarbamate fungicides. Thus, the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) in 1993, in its evaluation of mancozeb, concluded that... 

When proposing an MRL, the Rapporteur Member State (RMS) identifies the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) and Acute Reference Dose (ARfD) for man that is valid for the pesticide in question. The ADI thus identified is often the same as that recommended by the Joint FAO/WHO Meetings on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), whose recommendations on ADIs and MRLs are used within the Codex Alimentarius system. If the ADI proposed by the RMS is not that recommended by JMPR, the RMS has to provide an explanation for the difference. The other Member States comment on the RMS proposal at meetings of the Working Group on Pesticide Residues. If the Member States cannot reach agreement on the evaluation, the matter is referred to one or more of the Commission s scientific advisory committees. Prior to autumn 1997, such questions were referred to the Scientific Committee for Pesticides, but since then they have been referred to the Scientific Committee on Plants. 

JMPR (1995). Pipvronyf huloxitie. A monograph prepared by the Joint FAO/Who Meeting on Pesticide Residues, Geneva. 

Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (1975). Report of the 1975 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues, FAO Plant Production and Protection Scries No. 1 WHO Technical Report Series No. 592. World Health Organization, Geneva. 

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