Meeting

COT Meeting: 4th February 2025

Last updated: 05 February 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. Deriving a health-based guidance value for antimony to support development of UK Drinking Water Standards – further information 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 Request for comment on EFSA’s Public consultation on the EFSA Panel on Food Additive and Flavourings (FAF) ‘Draft guidance on the preparation of an application for authorisation of a food additive submitted under 4 Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008’ TOX/2025/05.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. EFSA Draft Guidance for Public Consultation: Draft guidance document on the submission of data for the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of substances for the removal of microbial surface contamination of foods of animal origin intended for human consumption. Request for comments. TOX/2025/08.

10. Annual report and update and horizon scanning TOX/2025/06.

11. Update on the work of other FSA Scientific Advisory Committees - for information TOX/2025/07.

12. Any other business.

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

Matters arising:

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

Media discussed during the meeting

PDF documents on this page are not in a fully accessible format, if you require it to be fully accessible, please see the HTML link for that document.

Please see information on reserved items on the Procedure for holding COT meetings in open session page