COT Meeting: 9th September 2025

Meeting Agenda

1.    Apologies for absence.

2.    Draft minutes and reserved minutes of the Tuesday 15^th July 2025 meeting TOX/MIN/2025/04.

3.     Matters arising.        

4.    Mercury in the maternal diet – second draft statement TOX/2025/30.

5.    Deriving a health-based guidance value for boron to support development of UK Drinking Water Standards TOX/2025/31.

6.   Citrinin in the maternal diet - second draft statement TOX/2025/32.

7.  EFSA Draft opinion on Δ 8 THC – Derivation of a Health Based Guidance Value TOX/2025/33.

8.   EFSA Draft scientific opinion on the evaluation of the safety of preparations from the fruits of sweet and bitter fennel TOX/2025/34.

9.   EFSA Draft opinion on risks to human health from lectins in food TOX/2025/35.

10. Update on the work of other FSA Scientific Advisory Committees - for information TOX/2025/36.

Matters arising:

• JEG Updates.
• Subgroups and working groups.

Media discussed during the meeting

TOX/MIN/2025/04

Draft Minutes of the 15th July 2025 COT Meeting

TOX/2025/30

Second Draft Statement on the Effects of Mercury on Maternal Health

Annex A to TOX/2025/30

Annex B to TOX/2025/30

TOX/2025/31

TOX/2025/32

Second draft statement on the potential risk from citrinin in the maternal diet

Annex A to TOX/2025/32

TOX/2025/33

TOX/2025/34

Draft EFSA Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of the safety of preparations from the fruits of sweet and bitter fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Foeniculum piperitum (Ucria) C.Presl)

Annex A to TOX/2025/34

TOX/2025/35