Oversight of Food Safety, 1983: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, to Review the Nation's Food Safety Policies and Laws, Focusing on Advances in Food Science and Toxicological Testing, and Advances in the Ability to Identify Toxicological Substances and of the Risk Such Substances Pose to Humans, June 8, 9, and 10, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 666 sider |
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Side 447 - food additive" means any substance the intended use of which results or may reasonably be expected to result, directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food...
Side 637 - Act requires that safety of food additives be established for the proposed uses, "provided, that no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animals.
Side 472 - Examples of other agencies that may have similar needs and objectives include the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Side 643 - A food shall be deemed to be adulterated — (a) (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added substance such food shall not be considered adulterated under this clause if the quantity of such substance in such food does not ordinarily render it injurious to health...
Side 439 - Food additives" includes all substances not exempted by section 201 (s) of the act, the intended use of which results or may reasonably be expected to result, directly or indirectly, either in their becoming a component of food or otherwise affecting the characteristics of food.
Side 264 - It is essential in the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that meat and meat food products distributed to them are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged.
Side 220 - ... assessment (the determination of the relation between the magnitude of exposure and the probability of occurrence of the health effects in question...
Side 223 - Committee believes that the basic problem with risk assessment is not its administrative setting, but rather the sparseness and uncertainty of the scientific knowledge of the health hazards addressed.
Side 82 - 1978, by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.
Side 220 - the use of the factual base to define the health effects of exposure of individuals or populations to hazardous materials and situations.