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Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

TIABENDAZOLE
Chemical names: 2-(4-THIAZOLYL)-1H-BENZIMIDAZOLE; 4-(2-BENZIMIDAZOLYL)THIAZOLE
Synonyms: THIABENDAZOLE; OMNIZOLE; THIABEN; THIBENZOLE; BOVIZOLE; EPROFIL; EQUIZOLE; MINTEZOL; MERTECT; LOMBRISTOP; MINZOLUM; NEMAPAN; POLIVAL; TBZ
Functional class: VETERINARY DRUG (ANTHELMINTHIC AGENT)
Latest evaluation: 2002
ADI: 0-0.1 mg/kg bw (1992)
Comments: At the fifty-eighth meeting (2002), the Committee established an acute reference dose (acute RfD) of 0.1 mg/kg bw, the same value as the 1992 ADI.
Comments/MRLs: The MRLs recommended at the fortieth meeting (1992) were not reconsidered and were maintained.
Report: TRS 911-JECFA 58/12
Residues: FNP 41/5-JECFA 40/41 (1992)
Tox monograph: FAS 49-JECFA 58/11
Previous status: 1997, TRS 879-JECFA 48/8, FNP 41/5-JECFA 40/41 (1992), FAS 39-JECFA 48/3. 0-0.1 mg/kg bw (1992). THE MRLs RECOMMENDED AT THE FORTIETH MEETING (1992) WERE MAINTAINED. FU. MRL
1992, TRS 832-JECFA 40/21, FNP 41/5-JECFA 40/41, FNP 31-JECFA 40/37. 0-0.1. MRLs: EDIBLE TISSUES (CATTLE, PIGS, GOATS AND SHEEP) AND MILK (CATTLE AND GOATS): 0.1, EXPRESSED AS THE SUM OF TIABENDAZOLE AND 5-HYDROXYTIABENDAZOLE (EDIBLE TISSUES DEFINED AS MUSCLE, FAT, LIVER AND KIDNEY), FU. MRL
 
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