Gut Reactions: Xenobiotics and the Microbiome Workshop Report London, UK 2024

Abbreviations

Last updated: 22 May 2025

Abbreviations

Adverse Outcome Pathways

AOP

Acceptable Daily Intake

ADI

antimicrobial resistance

AMR

Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment

COT

Food Standards Agency

FSA

Faecal Microbiota Transplant

FMT

guidance for industry

GFI

Inflammatory bowel disease

IBD

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

JECFA

Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues

JMPR

microbiological Acceptable Daily Intake 

mADI

no-observed adverse effect concentrations/levels

NOAEC/Ls

Quantitative PCR

qPC

ribosomal RNA

rRNA

Short chain fatty acids

SCFAs

T helper 17 cells

TH17

Ultra processed foods

UPF

Veterinary International Conference on Harmonization

VICH

Organizing Committee

Dr Olivia Osborne
Ms Cath Mulholland
Ms Sophy Orphanos

Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge the UK Food Standards Agency (UK FSA), the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and participants of the workshop to thank them for their contributions.

 

Disclaimer

The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views of the Food Standards Agency or the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, nor should their endorsement of any of the content be inferred.

This article contains summaries of the presentations and discussions that took place in the workshop. As such, they represent the views of the authors, and no official endorsement from the participants, either as an individual or as the company/institution/agency that they represent.

 

COT Members


Professor Alan Boobis (Chair)
Dr Stella Cochrane
Dr James Coulson
Dr Silvia Gratz
Professor Thorhallur I. Halldorsson
Professor Gary Hutchison
Professor Gunter Kuhnle
Dr David Lovell
Professor Shirley Price
Dr Mac Provan
Dr Michael Routledge
Dr Cheryl Scudamore
Dr Natalie Thatcher
Professor Mireille Toledano
Dr Simon Wilkinson
Professor Philippe Wilson
Professor Peter Barlow
Dr Steve Enoch
Dr Alison Yeates
Dr Meera Cush
Mr Gordon Burton
Dr Andreas Kolb
Mr Nick Richardson
Dr Chris Morris
Professor Maged Younes

 

COT Secretariat


Ms Catherine Mulholland
Ms Britta Gadeberg
Dr Alexander Cooper
Dr Barbara Doerr
Ms Jocelyn Frimpong Manso
Mr Barry Maycock
Dr Olivia Osborne
Ms Claire Potter
Ms Sabrina Thomas
Ms Chara Tsoulli
Ms Frederique Uy
Ms Sophy Orphanos
Dr Gaetana Spedalieri
Mr Thomas Hornsby
Ms Gail Drummond
Dr Emily Hudson
Ms Natasha Adams
Ms Abigail Smith
Dr Katie Schulz
Ms Katie Wetherall
Dr Rachel Kerr
Ms Polly Bevan
Ms Alba Ureña Rusillo