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  1. Feeding Habits of Fish and Seafood: Implications for Health Effects Associated with Contaminants in Seafood
  2. Risks Associated with Dietary Exposure to Contaminants from Foods Obtained from Marine and Fresh Water, Including Aquaculture
  3. Risks Associated with Dietary Exposure to Industrial and Geological Contaminants from the Consumption of Foods Obtained from Marine and Fresh Water, Including Aquaculture
  4. Climate change influence on the trends of BFRs in the environment and food.
  5. Congener patterns of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and biphenyls as a useful aid to source identification during a contamination incident in the food chain
  6. Concentrations of organic contaminants in industrial and municipal bioresources recycled in agriculture in the UK
  7. Association of endocrine active environmental compounds with body mass index and weight loss following bariatric surgery
  8. Risk assessment of chlorinated paraffins in feed and food
  9. The DIOXIN 2018 Symposium, Kraków, – “Legacy and Emerging Flame Retardants: Occurrence, human exposure and toxicokinetics”
  10. Recently listed Stockholm convention POPs: Analytical methodology, occurrence in food and dietary exposure
  11. The potential of recycled materials used in agriculture to contaminate food through uptake by livestock
  12. Chemical hazards in foods of animal origin and the associated risks for public health: elementary considerations
  13. Chemical hazards in foods of animal origin
  14. Persistent organic pollutants
  15. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds: toxicity in humans and animals, sources, and behaviour in the environment
  16. Hazard analysis approaches for certain small retail establishments and food donations: second scientific opinion
  17. Occurrence and spatial distribution of chemical contaminants in edible fish species collected from UK and proximate marine waters
  18. Update of the Scientific Opinion on opium alkaloids in poppy seeds
  19. Risks for animal health related to the presence of fumonisins, their modified forms and hidden forms in feed
  20. Spatial analysis of polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) and polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) in fish collected from UK and proximate marine waters
  21. Assessment of a decontamination process for dioxins and PCBs from fish meal by hexane extraction and replacement of fish oil
  22. Assessment of a decontamination process for dioxins and PCBs from fish meal by replacement of fish oil
  23. Appropriateness to set a group health‐based guidance value for fumonisins and their modified forms
  24. Update of the risk assessment on 3‐monochloropropane diol and its fatty acid esters
  25. Assessment of decontamination processes for dioxins and dioxin‐like PCBs in fish oil by physical filtration with activated carbon
  26. Predictors of human PBDE body burdens for a UK cohort
  27. Can better capitalised banks be more profitable? An analysis of large French banking groups before and after the financial crisis
  28. Polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in food and humans
  29. Scientific opinion on the evaluation of substances as acceptable previous cargoes for edible fats and oils
  30. Appropriateness to set a group health based guidance value for T2 and HT2 toxin and its modified forms
  31. Other Environmental Organic Contaminants in Foods
  32. UK dietary exposure to PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PBDD/Fs, PBBs and PBDEs: comparison of results from 24-h duplicate diets and total diet studies
  33. Erucic acid in feed and food
  34. Malachite green in food
  35. Associations between human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants via diet and indoor dust, and internal dose: A systematic review
  36. Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood
  37. Risks for human health related to the presence of 3‐ and 2‐monochloropropanediol (MCPD), and their fatty acid esters, and glycidyl fatty acid esters in food
  38. Bromine content and brominated flame retardants in food and animal feed from the UK
  39. Acute health risks related to the presence of cyanogenic glycosides in raw apricot kernels and products derived from raw apricot kernels
  40. Appropriateness to set a group health‐based guidance value for zearalenone and its modified forms
  41. Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds in Food and Feed
  42. Organic Contaminant Content and Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Waste Materials Recycled in Agriculture
  43. Risks for human and animal health related to the presence of phorbol esters in Jatropha kernel meal
  44. European developments following incidents with dioxins and PCBs in the food and feed chain
  45. Investigation into the formation of PAHs in foods prepared in the home to determine the effects of frying, grilling, barbecuing, toasting and roasting
  46. The effects of flooding on dioxin and PCB levels in food produced on industrial river catchments
  47. Contamination of fish in UK fresh water systems: Risk assessment for human consumption
  48. Characterisation of chlorinated, brominated and mixed halogenated dioxins, furans and biphenyls as potent and as partial agonists of the Aryl hydrocarbon receptor
  49. Risk Assessment for Dioxins and Related Compounds
  50. Mixed halogenated dioxins/furans (PXDD/Fs) and biphenyls (PXBs) in food: Occurrence and toxic equivalent exposure using specific relative potencies
  51. PBDEs and PBBs in human serum and breast milk from cohabiting UK couples
  52. The effects of river flooding on dioxin and PCBs in beef
  53. Back matter
  54. The Toxicological Effects of Halogenated Naphthalenes: A Review of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Mediated (Dioxin-like) Relative Potency Factors
  55. Reconsideration of the temporary ADI and refined exposure assessment for Sunset Yellow FCF (E 110)
  56. Statement on a conceptual framework for the risk assessment of certain food additives re-evaluated under Commission Regulation (EU) No 257/2010
  57. Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of hexamethylene tetramine (E 239) as a food additive
  58. Scientific Opinion on the revised exposure assessment of steviol glycosides (E 960) for the proposed uses as a food additive
  59. Scientific Opinion on the re‐evaluation of propyl gallate (E 310) as a food additive
  60. Scientific Opinion on the re‐evaluation of 4‐hexylresorcinol (E 586) as a food additive
  61. Genes involved in the induction of liver growth by peroxisome proliferators
  62. Scientific Opinion on the reconsideration of the ADI and a refined exposure assessment of β‐apo‐8′‐carotenal (E 160e)
  63. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
  64. Environmental Contaminants: Dioxins, Furans, and Dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyls
  65. Output of the public consultation on the draft EFSA scientific opinion on the re‐evaluation of aspartame (E951) as a food additive
  66. Statement on two reports published after the closing date of the public consultation of the draft Scientific Opinion on the re‐evaluation of aspartame (E 951) as a food additive
  67. Scientific Opinion on the re‐evaluation of aspartame (E 951) as a food additive
  68. Scientific Opinion on safety evaluation of Ephedra species for use in food
  69. Scientific Opinion on the re‐evaluation of boric acid (E 284) and sodium tetraborate (borax) (E 285) as food additives
  70. Scientific Opinion on (6S)‐5‐methyltetrahydrofolic acid, glucosamine salt as a source of folate added for nutritional purposes to food supplements
  71. Scientific Opinion on the re‐evaluation of riboflavin (E 101(i)) and riboflavin‐5′‐phosphate sodium (E 101(ii)) as food additives
  72. Scientific Opinion on the safety of polyvinyl alcohol-polyethylene glycol-graft-co-polymer as a food additive
  73. Scientific Opinion on the safety of advantame for the proposed uses as a food additive
  74. Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the safety in use of Yohimbe (Pausinystalia yohimbe (K. Schum.) Pierre ex Beille)
  75. Statement on Allura Red AC and other sulphonated mono azo dyes authorised as food and feed additives
  76. Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of montan acid esters (E 912) as a food additive
  77. Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate (E 481) and calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate (E 482) as food additives
  78. Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of anthocyanins (E 163) as a food additive
  79. Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of microcrystalline wax (E 905) as a food additive
  80. Guidance on methodological principles and scientific methods to be taken into account when establishing Reference Points for Action (RPAs) for non-allowed pharmacologically active substances present in food of animal origin
  81. Polybrominated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins, Dibenzofurans, and Biphenyls: Inclusion in the Toxicity Equivalency Factor Concept for Dioxin-Like Compounds
  82. Statement on the exposure assessment of sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate and calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate including exposure resulting from extension of the authorisation of sodium stearoyl-2-lactylates
  83. Statement on the safety of iodized ethyl esters of poppy seed oil as a source of iodine added for nutritional purposes to foodstuffs
  84. Statement on a refined dietary exposure assessment of erythritol (E 968) taking into account additional data provided
  85. Proficiency test results for PAH analysis are not method-dependent
  86. Persistent organic pollutants and toxic metals in foods
  87. Preface
  88. Seasonal variations in the levels of PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PBDEs in cows’ milk
  89. Scientific Opinion on the risk for public health related to the presence of mercury and methylmercury in food
  90. Fused mesoionic heterocyclic compounds are a new class of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist of exceptional potency
  91. A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals
  92. Mixed poly-brominated/chlorinated biphenyls (PXBs): Widespread food and environmental contaminants
  93. Scientific Opinion on Ergot alkaloids in food and feed
  94. Novel 2-amino-isoflavones exhibit aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist or antagonist activity in a species/cell-specific context
  95. Scientific Opinion on Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons in Food
  96. Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (poultry)
  97. Effect of feeding fresh forage and marine algae on the fatty acid composition and oxidation of milk and butter
  98. Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the substances currently on the list in the annex to Commission Directive 96/3/EC as acceptable previous cargoes for edible fats and oils - Part II of III
  99. Incidents and impacts of unwanted chemicals in food and feeds
  100. Scientific Opinion on Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs) in Food: Brominated Phenols and their Derivatives
  101. Scientific Opinion on the risks for public and animal health related to the presence of citrinin in food and feed
  102. Scientific Opinion on the minimum hygiene criteria to be applied to clean seawater and on the public health risks and hygiene criteria for bottled seawater intended for domestic use
  103. Scientific Opinion on the risks for animal and public health related to the presence of phomopsins in feed and food
  104. Emerging environmental organic contaminants in foods
  105. Hazardous chemicals as animal feed contaminants and methods for their detection
  106. Scientific Opinion on the risks for animal and public health related to the presence of T-2 and HT-2 toxin in food and feed
  107. Scientific Opinion on Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and its derivatives in food
  108. Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the substances currently on the list in the Annex to Commission Directive 96/3/EC as acceptable previous cargoes for edible fats and oils - Part I of III
  109. Mixed brominated/chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and biphenyls: Simultaneous congener-selective determination in food
  110. Scientific Opinion on Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food and feed
  111. Scientific Opinion on the risks for public health related to the presence of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds
  112. Transfer and uptake of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into meat and organs of indoor and outdoor reared pigs
  113. PAH contamination in shellfish: modelling to estimate exposure
  114. Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (swine)
  115. Scientific Opinion on the risks for animal and public health related to the presence ofAlternariatoxins in feed and food
  116. Polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in Irish foods: Occurrence and human dietary exposure
  117. What is the best way to ensure that valid analytical methods are used for food control?
  118. Scientific Opinion on Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDDs) in Food
  119. Scientific Opinion on the risk to public health related to the presence of high levels of dioxins and dioxin‐like PCBs in liver from sheep and deer
  120. Scientific Opinion on the risks for public health related to the presence of zearalenone in food
  121. Scientific Opinion on a summary of scientific studies undertaken by the UK Food Standards Agency to support a proposed production method for smoked “skin-on” sheep meat
  122. Effects of River Flooding on Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Levels in Cows’ Milk, Soil, and Grass
  123. Scientific Opinion on Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Food
  124. The assimilation of dioxins and PCBs in conventionally reared farm animals: Occurrence and biotransfer factors
  125. Environmental contaminants in foods and feeds in the light of climate change
  126. Dietary exposure to metals and other elements in the 2006 UK Total Diet Study and some trends over the last 30 years
  127. Dioxins (PCDD/Fs) and PCBs in offal: Occurrence and dietary exposure
  128. Interpretation of studies on the developmental reproductive toxicology of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in male offspring
  129. Polychlorinated Naphthalenes (PCNs): Congener Specific Analysis, Occurrence in Food, and Dietary Exposure in the UK
  130. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Olive Oil
  131. Food monitoring and control for environmental contaminants
  132. Occurrence of dioxins (PCDDs, PCDFs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in wild, farmed and processed fish, and shellfish
  133. Brominated dioxins (PBDD/Fs) and PBDEs in marine shellfish in the UK
  134. Polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) and brominated dioxins (PBDD/Fs) in Irish food of animal origin
  135. Dioxin and PCB Contamination in Chinese Mitten Crabs: Human Consumption as a Control Mechanism for an Invasive Species
  136. MoniQA (Monitoring and Quality Assurance): an EU-funded Network of Excellence working towards the harmonization of worldwide food quality and safety monitoring and control strategies-status report 2008
  137. A sensitive method for the determination of chlorine-36 in foods using accelerator mass spectrometry
  138. Recombinant expression of aryl hydrocarbon receptor for quantitative ligand-binding analysis
  139. Surveillance of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in foods
  140. A Truncation in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the CRL:WI(Han) Rat Does Not Affect the Developmental Toxicity of TCDD
  141. Determination of brominated flame retardants in food by LC–MS/MS: diastereoisomer-specific hexabromocyclododecane and tetrabromobisphenol A
  142. 4-Nonylphenol (NP) in food-contact materials: Analytical methodology and occurrence
  143. Brominated and chlorinated dioxins, PCBs and brominated flame retardants in Scottish shellfish: Methodology, occurrence and human dietary exposure
  144. Arsenic in seaweed—Forms, concentration and dietary exposure
  145. Toxicity of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in the Developing Male Wistar(Han) Rat. I: No Decrease in Epididymal Sperm Count after a Single Acute Dose
  146. Toxicity of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in the Developing Male Wistar(Han) Rat. II: Chronic Dosing Causes Developmental Delay
  147. Single-laboratory validation of a GC/MS method for the determination of 27 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in oils and fats
  148. Relationships between Tissue Levels of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), mRNAs, and Toxicity in the Developing Male Wistar(Han) Rat
  149. Possible chemical causes of skeletal deformities in grey heron nestlings (Ardea cinerea) in North Nottinghamshire, UK
  150. Dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in fish oil dietary supplements: Occurrence and human exposure in the UK
  151. The 2005 World Health Organization Reevaluation of Human and Mammalian Toxic Equivalency Factors for Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds
  152. Effects of River Flooding on PCDD/F and PCB Levels in Cows' Milk, Soil, and Grass
  153. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food: Nicarbazin (Dinitrocarbanilide component)
  154. Determination of dioxins (PCDDs/PCDFs) and PCBs in food and feed using the DR CALUX® bioassay: Results of an international validation study
  155. Dioxins and Dioxinlike PCBs in Food
  156. Dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCDD/Fs and PCBs) in food from farms close to foot and mouth disease animal pyres
  157. Simultaneous determination of PCDDs, PCDFs, PCBs and PBDEs in food
  158. Brominated Organic Micropollutants—Igniting the Flame Retardant Issue
  159. Determination of 4-octylphenol and 4-nonylphenol congeners in composite foods
  160. Levels of phytoestrogens, inorganic trace-elements, natural toxicants and nitrate in vegetarian duplicate diets
  161. Application of uncertainty analysis in assessing dietary exposure
  162. Butter as an indicator of regional persistent organic pollutant contamination: further development of the approach using polychlorinated dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs), and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
  163. Intake estimation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in salmon: the inclusion of uncertainty
  164. An ICP-MS methodology using a combined high-resolution/multi-collector detector system for the measurement of total zinc and zinc isotope ratios in faecal samples from a human nutrition study
  165. Development of a high-resolution ICP-MS method, suitable for the measurement of iron and iron isotope ratios in acid digests of faecal samples from a human nutrition study
  166. Studies made to assess risk concerning a 'dioxin' contamination incident near Bolsover, Derbyshire, UK
  167. Changes in concentration of five PCDD/F congeners after cooking beef from treated cattle
  168. Concentration changes for 5 PCDD/F congeners after administration in beef cattle
  169. A review of analytical methods for lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and tin determination used in proficiency testing
  170. Bromine and iodine in 1997 UK total diet study samples
  171. A method for the separation of residues of nine compounds in cattle liver related to treatment with oxfendazole
  172. Effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food Part 9.† Nitroimidazoles
  173. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food: 7. ivermectin
  174. Extension of multi-residue methodology to include the determination of quinolones in food†‡
  175. Determination of dimetridazole, ronidazole and their common metabolite in poultry muscle and eggs by high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection and confirmatory analysis by atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation mass spectrometry†‡
  176. Effect of Cooking on Veterinary Drug Residues in Food. 6. Lasalocid
  177. Determination of penicillins in animal tissues at trace residue concentrations: II. determination of amoxicillin and ampicillin in liver and muscle using cation exchange and porous graphitic carbon solid phase extraction and high‐performance liquid chr...
  178. The Effect of Cooking on Veterinary Drug Residues in Food.Part 8. Benzylpenicillin†
  179. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food; 5. oxfendazole
  180. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food: 4. Oxytetracycline
  181. PCDDS and PCDFS in milk from farms in Derbyshire, U.K.
  182. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food: 3. Sulphamethazine (sulphadimidine)
  183. Determination of quinoxaline carboxylic acid (metabolite of carbadox) in animal tissue by HPLC
  184. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food: 2. levamisole
  185. The effect of cooking on veterinary drug residues in food: 1. clenbuterol
  186. Determination of tranquilisers and carazolol residues in animal tissue using high-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection
  187. Chlorinated dioxin and dibenzofuran levels in human milk from Africa, Pakistan, southern Vietnam, the southern U.S. and England
  188. Surveillance of British foods for PCDDs and PCDFs
  189. Analysis of PCDDs and PCDFs in human milk from the UK
  190. Survey of the background levels of PCDDs and PCDFs in UK vegetation
  191. Migration from plasticized films into foods. 1. Migration of di‐(2‐ethylhexyl)adipate from PVC films during home‐use and microwave cooking
  192. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons