22 Jan 2019

EFSA lowers safe level for toxic dioxins in food by a factor of seven

The EFSA expert panel on contaminants in the food chain (CONTAM) set a new tolerable weekly intake (TWI) for dioxins in food of 2 picograms per kilogram of body weight, based on new epidemiological and animal data and more refined modelling approaches for predicting dioxin levels in the human body.

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