COT/COM/COC Annual Report Index

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Last updated: 11 January 2024

Index to Subjects and Substances considered in previous annual reports of the Committees on Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment.

Subject:

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 

Year 

Page 

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry an aid to carcinogen risk assessment 

2000 

103 

Subject:

Acceptable Daily Intakes (ADI) 

Year 

Page 

Acceptable Daily Intakes (ADI) 

1992  

15  

Subject:

Acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) 

Year 

Page 

COM evaluation 

1994 

24 

COM evaluation of additional data 

1997 

63 

Subject:

Acid sweets 

Year 

Page 

Adverse reactions to 

2004 

7, 25 

Subject:

Aclonifen  

Year 

Page 

COM evaluation of, 

2008 

227, 262 

Subject:

Acrylamide  

Year 

Page 

COC evaluation of 

1992 

54 

COM evaluation of 

2007 

130, 137 

COM evaluation of (ongoing) 

2008 

235 

COM evaluation of 

2009 

139, 153 

EFSA consultation on a draft scientific opinion on acrylamide in food 

2014 

 

8, 44 

 

in fried and baked food 

2002 

in the diet of infants and young children 

2016 

Pangenome analysis, published paper on 

2019 

51 

Potatoes and acrylamide formation, WRAP study on 

2020 

17 

Subject:

Acute toxicity testing 

Year  

Page 

Evident toxicity as an endpoint in,  

2007 

19 

Subject:

Ad hoc Expert Group on Vitamins and Minerals (EVM) 

Year 

Page 

Formation of, 

1997 

Subject:

Additives, food  

Year 

Page 

and behaviour 

2002 

11 

and hyperactivity  

2000 

27 

in foods especially prepared for infants and young children 

1991 

22 

in infant formulae and follow-on formulae  

1991 

14 

Guar gum 

1991  

14 

Carcinogenicity of food additives (T01040/41), FSA funded research on health effects of 

2008 

10, 204 

Carcinogenicity of food contaminants and additives 

2004 

15 

consideration of FSA-funded research on joint endocrine effects of multi-component mixtures of food contaminants and additives 

2010 

16 

Subject:

Advances in toxicology 

Year 

Page 

21st Century Toxicology 

2009 

35 

Subject:

Adverse birth outcomes 

Year 

Page 

Epidemiological studies of landfill and,  

2007 

24 

Subject:

Adverse Outcome Pathways 

Year 

Page 

presentation on 

2017 

52 

Germ cell adverse outcome pathways 

2016 

34 

Subject:

Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP), 

Year 

Page 

joint meeting of COT with 

1991  

21 

Subject:

Agaritine 

Year 

Page 

COM evaluation of,  

1992 

36,  

COC evaluation of 

1992 

54 

COC evaluation of 

1996 

34 

Subject:

Aircraft cabin air environment, ill-health in aircraft crew and the possible relationship to smoke/fume events in aircraft 

Year 

Page 

Organophosphates and oil/hydraulic fluid pyrolysis products 

2006 

19 

Updated COT evaluation of literature, measuring air contaminants 

2007 

7, 66 

COT evaluation of 

2013 

Subject:

Air fresheners 

Year 

Page 

Potential respiratory effects of 

2008 

Subject:

Air pollution 

Year 

Page 

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in air pollution 

2004 

183 

Ranking of carcinogens: comparison of method using some 

air pollutants 

2001 

119 

Quantification of risk associated with carcinogenic air 

pollutants 

2002 

128 

Risks associated with exposure to low levels of air pollution 

2003 

193 

Subject:

Air quality guidelines 

Year 

Page 

Genotoxins, consideration of 

1992  

58 

Subject:

Alcohol and alcoholic beverages (also see ethanol) 

Year 

Page 

Mutagenicity 

1995 

28 

Carcinogenicity 

1995 

46 

Evaluation of sensible drinking message 

1995 

58 

and breast cancer , COC Ongoing evaluation of 

2002 

133 

and breast cancer , COC Ongoing evaluation of 

2003 

196 

and breast cancer , COC evaluation of 

2004 

173, 194 

Alcohol attributable burden of cancer 

2011 

56 

and cancer risk , COC ongoing review of 

2013 

58 

and cancer risk , COC review of 

2016 

43 

Mechanism of carcinogenicity in humans 

1995 

57 

and squamous cell carcinoma: review 

of the quantitative relationship  

2005 

139 

effects on the epigenome in the germline: role in the 

inheritance of alcohol-related pathology 

2017 

53 

Potential role of oxidative damage in alcohol’s mutagenic 

and carcinogenic mode of action 

2015 

36 

Presentation on initial preliminary results of meta-analysis of 

alcohol and breast cancer 

2001 

120 

Review of the mutagenicity of alcohol 

2015 

35 

Sensible drinking message, Evaluation of 

1995 

58 

Statement of consumption of alcoholic beverages and risk of 

cancer 

2015 

44 

Statement on the mutagenicity of alcohol(ethanol) and its 

metabolite acetaldehyde 

2015 

35 

Ongoing work on the COT contribution to the SACN risk assessment on nutrition and, alcohol; 2016 Chief Medical Officers Report 

2021 

31 

Subject:

Alitame 

Year 

Page 

COM evaluation of 

1992 

36 

COT evaluation of 

1999 

COT evaluation of additional data 

2000 

10 

Subject:

Almond drinks  

Year 

Page 

in the diet of infants aged 1-5 

2019 

19 

in the diet of infants aged 1-5 

2020 

29 

Statement on the consumption of plant-based drinks (almond, soya, oat) 

2021 

11 

Subject:

Alternaria toxins 

Year 

Page 

Mutagenicity of 

1991 

50 

Subject:

Allergenic foods 

Year 

Page 

timing of introduction to the infant diet and influence on the risk of development of atopic outcomes and autoimmune disease 

2016 

 

16 

 

maternal and infant dietary exposures and, 

2017 

26 

Allergenic foods, COT/SACN Subgroup on the timing of introduction into the infant diet 

2017 

20 

Peanut butter during weaning  

1998 

17 

Risks of chemical toxicity and allergic disease in relation to 

infant diet 

2012 

14 

Subject:

Aluminium  

Year  

Page 

in the diet of infants and young children 

2016 

Subject:

Amalgam, Dental 

Year  

Page 

COT review of 

1997 

13 

Subject:

Amano 90 (enzyme) 

Year  

Page 

COT evaluation of 

2000 

15 

Subject:

Ammonium Phosphatides (Emulsifier YN) 

Year  

Page 

COT evaluation of 

1994 

Subject:

Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning 

Year  

Page 

Atypical results in the lipophilic mouse bioassay 

2001 

Subject:

Aneuploidy  

Year  

Page 

inducing chemicals 

1993 

36 

Thresholds for 

Year 

Page 

COM evaluation of 

1995 

37 

COM evaluation of 

1996 

42 

ECETOC Monograph on 

1997 

78 

Subject:

Aniline 

Year  

Page 

COM review of 

1992  

40 

Subject:

Antimony trioxide 

Year  

Page 

COM review of 

1997 

62 

Subject:

Arsenic  

Year  

Page 

in diet of infants and young children 

2016 

10 

in drinking water 

1994 

32 

in food, opinion of the European Food Safety Authority 

2009 

In seaweed – urgent advice 

2004 

13, 22 

Total and inorganic in food: results of the 1999 Total 

Diet Study (ongoing) 

2002 

20 

Total and inorganic in food: results of the 1999 Total 

Diet Study 

2003 

Subject:

Asbestos 

Year  

Page 

COC evaluation of 

2011 

57 

relative vulnerability of children to 

2013 

52 

Ascorbyl palmitate 

1991  

15 

relative vulnerability of children to  

2012 

46 

Subject:

Aspartame 

Year  

Page 

COT statement on 

1992 

12 

COC evaluation of 

1996 

56 

Entry to be confirmed 

2006 

280, 287 

EFSA evaluation of,  

2013 

13,  

FSA double blinded study of 

2013 

14 

Subject:

Astaxanthin 

Year  

Page 

in farmed fish 

1991  

15 

Subject:

Autoimmune disease  

Year 

Page 

Risks arising from the infant diet and the development of 

atopic and autoimmune disease 

2012 

21 

Subject:

Avoparcin 

Year  

Page 

COC review of 

1992  

56 

Subject:

Azodicarbonamide 

Year  

Page 

COT evaluation of 

1994 

COT evaluation of 

2019 

36