Appropriateness to set a group health‐based guidance value for fumonisins and their modified forms

Abstract The EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) established a tolerable daily intake (TDI) for fumonisin B1 (FB1) of 1.0 μg/kg body weight (bw) per day based on increased incidence of megalocytic hepatocytes found in a chronic study with mice. The CONTAM Panel considered the limit...

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Main Authors: EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), Helle‐Katrine Knutsen, Lars Barregård, Margherita Bignami, Beat Brüschweiler, Sandra Ceccatelli, Bruce Cottrill, Michael Dinovi, Lutz Edler, Bettina Grasl‐Kraupp, Christer Hogstrand, Laurentius (Ron) Hoogenboom, Carlo Stefano Nebbia, Annette Petersen, Martin Rose, Alain‐Claude Roudot, Tanja Schwerdtle, Christiane Vleminckx, Günter Vollmer, Heather Wallace, Chiara Dall'Asta, Arno C Gutleb, Hans‐Ulrich Humpf, Corrado Galli, Manfred Metzler, Isabelle P Oswald, Dominique Parent‐Massin, Marco Binaglia, Hans Steinkellner, Jan Alexander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-02-01
Series:EFSA Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5172