COT Meeting: 9th December 2025

Meeting Agenda

1. Apologies for absence. 

2. Draft minutes and reserved minutes of the Tuesday 21st October 2025 meeting TOX/MIN/2025/06.

3. Matters arising.

4. Echinacea in the maternal diet TOX/2025/45.

5. Scope of the nutrition and maternal health project. TOX/2025/44.

6. Statement on the derivation of a health-based guidance value for boron – First Draft TOX/2025/46.

7. Supplementary statement on BPA TOX/2025/47.

8. EFSA Dioxin Consultation TOX/2025/48.

9. For Information: COMEAP Statement on airborne nano- and microplastic particles and fibres, and associated Synthesis and Integration of Epidemiological and Toxicological Evidence (SETE) assessment TOX/2025/49.

Matters arising:

• JEG Updates.
• Subgroups and working groups.

Media discussed during the meeting

TOX/MIN/2025/06 

Draft Minutes of the 21st October 2025 COT Meeting

TOX/2025/44

Scope of the Nutrition and maternal health project

TOX/2025/45

Discussion paper on the potential health effects of Echinacea in the maternal diet..

TOX/2025/46

TOX/2025/47

Draft supplementary statement to the COT’s position paper on bisphenol A (BPA)

TOX/2025/48

TOX/2025/49

For Information: COMEAP Statement on airborne nano- and microplastic particles and fibres, and associated Synthesis and Integration of Epidemiological and Toxicological Evidence (SETE) assessment

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