Meeting

 COT Meeting: 4th February 2025

Last updated: 21 January 2025

Meeting Agenda

1.    Apologies for absence.

2.     Draft minutes and reserved minutes of the Tuesday 10th December 2024 meeting TOX/MIN/2024/07.

3.    Matters arising.         

4.    Joint position paper from the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) & Committee on Toxicity (COT) on establishing a Safe Upper Limit for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) and its precursor as contaminants of hemp-derived products and CBD novel foods Draft Statement (Reserved) TOX/2025/01.

5.   Draft Committee Advice Document on the recycled poly (ethylene terephthalate) decontamination process  for use in the manufacture of materials and articles in contact with food RP 1862 (Reserved) TOX/2025/02.

6.   Mercury in the maternal diet TOX/2025/03.

7.   Antimony (UK HSA) TOX/2025/04.

8.   Request for comment on EFSA’s Public consultation on the EFSA Panel on Food Additive and Flavourings (FAF) ‘Draft guidance on the preparation of an application for authorisation of a food additive submitted under 4 Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008’ TOX/2025/05.

9.   Emerging marine biotoxins TOX/2025/06.

10.  Annual report and update and horizon scanning TOX/2025/07.

11.  Update on the work of other FSA Scientific Advisory Committees - for information TOX/2025/08.

Next meeting of the Committee – Tuesday 25th March 2025  Clive House, London and via Teams.

12.  Any other business.

Matters arising:

  • JEG updates.
  • Subgroups and working groups.
  • EFSA consultation on perchlorate.
  • Liquorice in the maternal diet

Media discussed during the meeting

TOX/2025/01

(Reserved)

TOX/2025/02

(Reserved)

TOX/2025/03

TOX/2025/04

TOX/2025/05

TOX/2025/06

TOX/2025/07

TOX/2025/08