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The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization of the United Nations (FAO/WHO) and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (1974a) have recommended that vitamin A activity be reported as the equivalent weight of retinol. To calculate total retinol equiva-... 

WHO (World Health Organization of the United Nations). Environmental Health Criteria 206 Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether, WHO Geneva, Switzerland, 1998. 

A few years ago, the Expert Committee on Drag Addiction of the World Health Organization advised the United Nations that barbiturates must be considered drugs liable to produce addiction. Some persons develop a physical dependence on barbiturates others may be able to stop using the drugs voluntarily. As in the use of other psychological supports, the need for continued barbiturates lies in the underlying personality disorder. 

Continuing critical re-assessment of the usefulness versus the harmfulness of amphetamines has led to further restrictions in their use (SED-9, 10). They have been subjected to rigid legislative control in many countries, accompanied by recommendations that they should not be prescribed. The World Health Organization and the United Nations have also stressed the need for strict control of amphetamines (SED-9,10) (87). 

Clearly sickle cell disease is a major health concern in the United States. It is of course a far bigger concern in Africa where millions of individuals suffer because of a lack of resources and the historically low priority of sickle cell disease among pubhc health decision makers (13,18). In response to the seriousness of the problem in many developing nations, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched several initiatives to enhance coimnunity education and training of health care professionals in affected areas (18,19). 

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) and many other organizations are involved in the procurement of pharmaceutical products. In particular, the supply of pharmaceutical products used in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), malaria and tuberculosis has become a major concern at both the international and country levels. Commitments by the European Commission and G8 countries, among others, offer the potential for significant increases in funding for efforts to combat communicable diseases. Low-cost pharmaceutical products of assured quality have the greatest potential for maximizing the impact of these efforts. The need for a model quality assurance system... 

Notes with appreciation the co-operative relationship established between the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals for the preparation of the Consolidated List ... 

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) have defined three degrees of severity of iodine deficiency mild (iodine intake of 50—99p,g/day), moderate (20 9 p,g/day), and severe (<20p,g/day) (WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD, 1994). Severe iodine deficiency was eradicated from many parts of the world, but milder forms stiU exist and may escape detection. Thirty-two European countries were still affected by mild-to-severe iodine deficiency in the late 1990s (Delange, 2002). Turkey is one of these mild-to-moderate iodine-deficient areas (Yordam et ai, 1999). 

FAO Nutrition Meetings Report, Series No. 40 A,B,C, Pood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations World Health Organization, New York, 1967, p. 134. 

FAOAVHO. 1975a. Data sheets on pesticides Endosulfan. Rome, Italy Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and World Health Organization. VBC/DS/75.15, No. 15. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and World Health Organization. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Health Organization (FAO (1995). Report of FAO technical consultation on food allergens. Rome 1995, November, 13-14. 

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. 

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, World Health Organization, Joint FAO-WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, 57th Meeting, Rome, June 5-14,2001. Summary and Conclusions. Annex 4 Contaminants. 5. Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins, Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans, and Coplanar Polychlorinated Biphenyls, http //www.who.int/ pcs/jecfa/Summary57-corr.pdf. pp. 24-40. 

M. Michiels, W. Meuldermans, and J. Heykants, Drug Metab. Rev., 18 235 (1987). World Health Organization, in Residues of Some Veterinary Drugs in Animals and Foods, Thirty-sixth Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Food and Nutrition Paper No 41/3, Rome, p. 32 (1990). 

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