Last updated on 14-12-2020 by Jill Alexandre
Auteurs
EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM),; Schrenk, Dieter; Bignami, Marguerita; Bodin, Laurent; Chipman, James; del Mazo, Jesús; Grasl‐Kraupp, Bettina; Hogstrand, Christer; Hoogenboom, Laurentius; Leblanc, Jean‐Charles; Nebbia, Carlo; Ntzani, Evangelia; Petersen, Annette; Sand, Salomon; Schwerdtle, Tanja; Vleminckx, Christiane; Wallace, Heather; Brüschweiler, Beat; Pim, Leonards; Rose, Martin; Binaglia, Marco; Horváth, Zsuzsanna; Ramos Bordajandi, Luisa; Nielsen, ElsaMots-clés
Résumé:
The European Commission asked EFSA for a scientific opinion on the risks for animal and human health related to the presence of chlorinated paraffins in feed and food. The data for experimental animals were reviewed and the CONTAM Panel identified the liver, kidney and thyroid as the target organs for the SCCP and MCCP mixtures tested in repeated dose toxicity studies. Decreased pup survival and subcutaneous haematoma/haemorrhage were also identified as critical effects for an MCCP mixture. For the LCCP mixtures tested, the liver was identified as the target organ. The Panel selec…