date:Nov 23, 2018
previous EU tolerable intake set by the European Commissions former Scientific Committee on Food in 2001.
The main reasons for the decrease were the availability of new epidemiological and experimental animal data on the toxicity of these substances and more refined modeling techniques for predicting levels in the human body over time.
The new TWI is protective against effects on semen quality, the adverse health effect was seen at the lowest levels of these contaminants in human blood, adds D