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Quantification in food regulatory toxicology is today a necessity owing to the need for control requirements and the increasing sensitivity of the analytical methods developed in recent years. The technical and scientific advances of the analytical sciences have permitted the detection of many hitherto unsuspected chemicals in minute amounts in food. The presence, however, of a trace amount of a toxic substance is not in itself a hazard to man. A health hazard can be determined only by taking into account toxicological knowledge and information about potential exposure [1].
The author is a toxicologist with the International Programme on Chemical Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva. He is the Joint WHO Secretary to the Joint FAO/ WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR). Apart from those instances where the views of the JECFA are referenced, the author alone is responsible for the opinions in this paper.
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Vettorazzi, G. (1983). Quantification in Food Regulatory Toxicology. In: Schmidt, E.H.F., Hildebrandt, A.G. (eds) Health Evaluation of Heavy Metals in Infant Formula and Junior Food. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68740-2_2
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