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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Implications of Dioxin in the Food Supply. Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2003.
ORGANIZATIONS, PROGRAMS, STUDIES
- AAP
American Academy of Pediatrics
- AHA
American Heart Association
- ATSDR
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
- CFIA
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- CSFII
Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals
- EC
European Commission
- EPA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- EU
European Union
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- FDA
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- FDCA
Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act
- FSIS
Food Safety and Inspection Service
- JECFA
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
- HACCP
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
- HHS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- IARC
International Agency for Research on Cancer
- NHANES
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- TDS
Total Diet Study
- UK
United Kingdom
- USDA
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- WHO
World Health Organization
- WIC
Special Supplement Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
TERMS
- CDD
chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
- CDF
chlorodibenzofuran
- DLC
dioxin-like compound; in this report, DLCs are the dioxins, furans, and polychlorinated biphenyls that possess dioxin-like activity
- dscf
dry standard cubic feet
- dscm
dry standard cubic meter
- ED01
1 percent effective dose
- GAP
Good Agricultural Practice
- GMP
Good Manufacturing Practice
- HCDD
hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- HMIWI
hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerator
- HxCDF
hexachlorodibenzo-p-furan
- I-TEF
international toxicity equivalency factor system
- I-TEQ
international toxicity equivalents
- LED01
lower 95 percent confidence interval on the 1 percent effective dose
- MRL
minimum risk level
- N-TEQ
Nordic toxicity equivalents
- OCDD
octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- OCDF
octachlorodibenzofuran
- PCB
polychlorinated biphenyl
- PCDD
polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
- PCDF
polychlorinated dibenzofuran
- PCP
pentachlorophenol
- PeCDD
pentachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- PeCDF
pentachlorodibenzofuran
- POPs
persistent organic pollutants
- SMR
standardized mortality rate
- TCDD
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- TCDF
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran
- TDI
tolerable daily intake
- TEF
toxicity equivalency factor
- TEQ
toxicity equivalents
- TWI
tolerable weekly intake