The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has introduced a new scientific opinion on the dangers to humans and animals of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food and feed. Dangers may arise from these substances in food according to Art. the opinion and EFSA proposes a sevenfold reduction of the reference values on the basis of new research, a news item of which is published today on the website of the Food Administration (www.mats.is).
EFSA proposes lowering the limit value for the acceptable intake of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs to 2 pg * TEQ ** per kg body weight per week, while the current value is 14 pg TEQ per kg body weight per week. An acceptable weekly intake is the amount of substances we can ingest weekly, for life, without causing health damage.