Scientific Opinion on the risk for public health related to the presence of mercury and methylmercury in food

EFSA was asked by the European Commission to consider new developments regarding inorganic mercury and methylmercury toxicity and evaluate whether the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) provisional tolerable weekly intakes for methylmercury of 1.6 µg/kg body weight (b.w.) and o...

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Main Author: EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-12-01
Series:EFSA Journal
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Online Access:http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/2985.pdf