LONDON (Reuters) - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
on Tuesday slashed its recommended limits in food of dioxins and related toxins
- chemicals that have been linked to problems with reproductive health, the
immune system, hormone levels and tooth enamel.
Dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are mainly by-products of
industrial activities and can accumulate in the food chain, notably in fatty
fish, cheese, eggs and farmed meat.
New data and techniques for modeling how long dioxins stay
in the body convinced EFSA that the maximum weekly intake should be cut to just
2 trillionths of a gram per kilogramme of body weight - one seventh the
previous limit, set in 2001.
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