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
Publication Details
Copyright
Publisher
National Academies Press (US), Washington (DC)
NLM Citation
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. Acronyms and Glossary.