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To this date, the
European Union (European Commission, 2004) has not yet set any tolerance
limit for POC residues in fish. What it has developed for its some 25
member states are similar residue limits but on fat basis and for meat other
than marine mammals. Its basis for and its process of such tolerance
development were influenced greatly by those of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission, which is the policy unit created jointly by FAO and WHO in 1963
to set region wide (or supposedly world wide) food standards including
maximum limits for pesticide residues in foods. These maximum limits have
been coined with the technical terms maximum residue levels or
maximum residue limits (e.g., Racke, 2000, 2002), or MRLs for short. |