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MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) (1979) Method 54 Nickel, Nitric, Perchloric Acid Soluble in Soil. In The Analysis of Agricultural Material, Second Edition, RB 427, HMSO, London, UK. 

The composition of CNO and other oils in respect of fatty acids, triacylglycerols, tocols, and sterols, was examined in a well-conducted series of surveys by the Leatherhead Food Research Association (LFRA), UK, commissioned partly by MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food). In that study, LFRA (1989) tested a sample of 35 specimens from all the major origins between 1983 and 1988 and reported the mean, coefficient of variation, and range limits as well as all the individual results (Table 6.1). 

Note AAS Atomic absorption spectroscopy ICP-MS Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry MAFF Ministry of agriculture fisheries and food HPLC-UV High performance liquid chromatography with UV detection ASV Anodic stripping voltammetry CSV Cathodic stripping voltammetry. 

UK Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food and Flealth and Safety Executive, Annual Report of the Working Party on Pesticide Residues in Food (1997), MAFF Publications, London, 1997. lARC, Monographs on the Evabiation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Hnmans Volume 56 Some Naturally Occurring Substances Food Items and Constituents, Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines and Mycotoxins, WFIO, Geneva, 1979, p. 397. 

MAFF, Agricultural Statistics, United Kingdom, 1988, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, London, 1990. 

There is a current control system for certain types of biocidal products (known as non-agricultural pesticides) operated by HSE under the Control of Pesticides Regulations (CoPR). These are antifouling products, insecticides, wood preservatives and surface biocides. Additionally agricultural pesticides are controlled under CoPR but these are administered by the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), an executive agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF). 

MAFF/Joint Medical Panel of the Scientific Subcommittee on Pesticides of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food and the Toxicology Committee of the British Agrochemical Association (1986/1992) Estimation of Exposure and Absorption of Pesticides by Spraying Operators, MAFF, Pesticides Registration Department, Harpenden Laboratory, Harpenden, Herts, England. 

MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries), Household Food Consumption and Expenditure. Annual Report of the National Food Survey Committee. London HMSO, 1996. 

MAFF (1997). Annual Report of the Working Party on Pesticide Residues 1996. MAFF PB3244. London Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, 176 pp. 

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries Food (1972-1993) Radioactivity in the coastal and surface waters of the UK. Published annually, MAFF Directorate of Fisheries Research, Lowestoft. 

The ACP assesses hazard and risk, and makes a set of specific recommendations as to what uses, if any, should be approved for the pesticide in question. Formal approval of a pesticide applicatirai comes from the relevant Minister. TTie Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) is responsible for agricultural pesticides the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regulates non-agricultural pesticides. 

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Food — U.K. Dietary Intakes, Food Surveillance Information Sheet No. 89, MAFF, London, May 1996. 

MAFF (UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1993) Aluminium in food. The thirty ninth report of the Steering Group on Chemical Aspects of Food Surveillance. Food Surveillance Paper No. 39, p. 48 -1- 43 appendices. Her Majesty s Stationery Office, London. 

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