This volume contains monographs prepared at the seventieth meeting of
the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met
in Geneva, Switzerland, from 21 to 29 October 2008.
The toxicological monographs in this volume summarize data on the
veterinary drug residues that were evaluated toxicologically by the
Committee: the antimicrobial agents avilmycin and tylosin, the
antimicrobial agent and containment malachite green, the production aid
melengestrol acetate, and the antimicrobial agents and production aids
monesin and narasin.
This volume and others in the WHO Food Additives Series contain
information that is useful to those who produce additives and veterinary
drugs and those involved with controlling contaminants in food,
government and food regulatory officers, industrial testing
laboratories, toxicological laboratories and universities.