Limit values for intakes of persistent pollutants via food
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The page includes limit values set up by international advisory and/or governing bodies regulating environmental health issues for intakes of persistent contaminants, organic or inorganic, via food. Contaminants currently included for their limit values are:
- Mercury (Hg) as its organic form, methylmercury (MeHg), the most readily bioaccumulated form
- Dioxins and furans (PCDD/F) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- Polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs)
Table 1. Limit values set up by various international regulating bodies.
