Risk assessment of nitrate and nitrite in feed

Risk assessment of nitrate and nitrite in feed

Abstract The European Commission asked EFSA for a scientific opinion on the risks to animal health related to nitrite and nitrate in feed. For nitrate ion, the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) identified a BMDL10 of 64 mg nitrate/kg body weight (bw) per day for adult cattl...

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Main Authors: EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), Dieter Schrenk, Margherita Bignami, Laurent Bodin, James Kevin Chipman, Jesús del Mazo, Bettina Grasl‐Kraupp, Laurentius (Ron) Hoogenboom, Jean‐Charles Leblanc, Carlo Stefano Nebbia, Elsa Nielsen, Evangelia Ntzani, Annette Petersen, Salomon Sand, Tanja Schwerdtle, Christiane Vleminckx, Heather Wallace, Vasileios Bampidis, Bruce Cottrill, Maria Jose Frutos, Peter Furst, Anthony Parker, Marco Binaglia, Anna Christodoulidou, Petra Gergelova, Irene Munoz Guajardo, Carina Wenger, Christer Hogstrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-11-01
Series:EFSA Journal
Subjects:
Nitrate
Nitrite
methaemoglobin
occurrence
exposure
feed
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6290

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https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6290

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