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Bamboo

Position paper on Bamboo (2024)

Updated position paper on Bamboo Bio-Composites in Food Contact Materials

Bisphenols

Position paper on bisphenol A (2024)

Position paper on bisphenol A

Study of bisphenols in canned foods (2001)

External link to the national archive for the 2001 COT statement on a study of bisphenols in canned foods

Bisphenol A (1997)

External link to the national archive for the 1997 COT statement on bisphenol A

Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) in canned foods (1997)

External link to the national archive for the 1997 COT statement on BADGE in canned foods

Bitter apricot kernels

Cyanogenic glycosides in bitter apricot kernels (2006)

External link to the national archive for the 2006 COT statement on cyanogenic glycosides in bitter apricot kernels

Bracken

Risk to consumers of eating foods derived from animals that have eaten bracken (2008)

External link to the national archive for the 2008 COT statement on the risk to consumers of eating foods derived from animals that have eaten bracken

fortificants in the Bread and Flour Regulations (2023)

Statement on the guidance levels for the fortificants in the Bread and Flour Regulations

Lay summary Statement on the guidance levels for the fortificants in the Bread and Flour Regulations (2023)

Lay summary Statement on the guidance levels for the fortificants in the Bread and Flour Regulations

Breast implants

Further toxicity studies in the rat of a hydrogel filler for breast implants (2006)

External link to the national archive for the 2006 COT statement on further toxicity studies in the rat of a hydrogel filler for breast implants

Further toxicity study in the rat of a hydrogel filler for breast implants (2002)

External link to the national archive for the 2002 COT statement on a further toxicity study in the rat of a hydrogel filler for breast implants

Toxicity study in the rat of a hydrogel filler for breast implants (2000)

External link to the national archive for the 2000 COT statement on a toxicity study in the rat of a hydrogel filler for breast implants

Breast milk

Toxicological evaluation of chemical analyses carried out as part of a pilot study for a breast milk archive (2004)

External link to the national archive for the 2004 COT statement on a toxicological evaluation of chemical analyses carried out as part of a pilot study for a breast milk archive

Health hazards of polychlorinated biphenyls (1997)

External link to the national archive for the 1997 COT statement on the health hazards of polychlorinated biphenyls

Bromine

Organic chlorinated and brominated contaminants in shellfish, farmed and wild fish (2006)

External link to the national archive for the 2006 COT statement on organic chlorinated and brominated contaminants in shellfish, farmed and wild fish

Brominated flame retardants in fish from the Skerne-Tees rivers system (2004)

External link to the national archive for the 2004 COT statement on brominated flame retardants in fish from the Skerne-Tees rivers system

Tetrabromobisphenol A - review of toxicological data (2004)

External link to the national archive for the 2004 COT statement on tetrabromobisphenol A - review of toxicological data

The 1997 Total Diet Study - Fluorine, Bromine, and Iodine (2000)

External link to the national archive for the 2000 COT statement on the 1997 Total Diet Study - Fluorine, Bromine, and Iodine