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FoodNutrition Meeting Report, Ser. No. 52, Pood and Agricultural Organizational, World Health Organization, Rome, 1973. 

Formaldehjde, Environmental Health Criteria 89, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1989, p. 17. 

Considerable concern has been raised over the carcinogenic potential of 2,4-D. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has evaluated the environmental health aspects of this chemical and concluded that 2,4-D posed an insignificant threat to the environment. They did indicate, however, that... 

DOL). Similar laws are in place in almost every country in the world and are proposed by such international organizations as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO). 

World Health Organization (WHO) Environmental Health Criteria, Organophosphorus Insecticides Geneva, Switzerland, 1986. 

It is difficult to define the normal range of iodine intake in humans, and despite efforts to provide iodine supplementation in many geographic areas of the world, endemic iodine deficiency and attendant goiter remain a world health problem (147). Exposure to excess iodine may sometimes lead to the development of thyroid disease. This unusual type of iodide-induced goiter has been found, for example, in 10% of the population of a Japanese island where fishermen and their families consume large quantities of an iodine-rich seaweed and have an iodine intake as high as 200 mg/d (148). 

The safety of lecithin is also confirmed by the World Health Organi2ation (WHO). WHO has not set any acceptable daily intake (ADI) to lecithin as... 

WHO/IRPA Task Group on Electromagnetic Fields, Environmental Health Criteria, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 1993, p. 137. 

Joint Expert Committee on Pood Additives, World Health Organization, 1988. 

PAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Pood Additives, 17th Meeting, World Health Org. Tech. Peport Ser. 539, 16 (1974). 

Sorbic acid is metabolized to carbon dioxide and water ia the same way as other fatty acids, releasiag 27.6 kj/g sorbate (6.6 kcal/g) (165). As a result of the favorable toxicological and physiological aspects, the World Health Organization (WHO) has allowed sorbic acid at the highest acceptable daily iatake of all food preservatives, 25 mg/kg body weight (178). 

Principles andMethods for Evaluating the Toxicity of Chemicals, Part 1, Environmental Health Criteria No. 6, World Health Organi2ation, Geneva,... 

Preventive medicine through vaccination continues to be the most cost-effective pubHc health practice, even with the drastic advance in modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs have eradicated smallpox from the earth. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a major campaign underway to eradicate poHo by the year 2000. The development of vaccines has saved millions of Hves and prevented many more from suffering. However, there are stiU many diseases without effective vaccines, such as malaria. With the recent emergence of antibiotic-resistance strains and exotic vimses, an effective vaccine development program becomes a top priority of pubHc health poHcy. 

In 1949 the World Health Organization adopted the biological activity of 1 mg of an oil solution containing 0.025 p.g of crystalline D as the analytical standard for vitamin D. This standard was discontinued in 1972. USP uses crystalline cholecalciferol as a standard (80). Samples of reference standard may be purchased from U.S. Pharmacopeia Convention, Inc., Reference Standards Order Department, 12601, Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland 20852. One international unit of vitamin D activity is that activity demonstrated by 0.025 ]1 of pure crystalline (7 -vitamin D. One gram of vitamin D3 is equivalent to 40 x 10 lU or USP units. The international chick unit (ICU) is identical to the USP unit. 

Control of Schistosomiasis, Technical report Series, WHO No. 728, World Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1985. 

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