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5241453 
Technical Report 
FDA's chemical contaminants program: the search for the unrecognized pollutant 
Lombardo, P 
1979 
NY Acad 
673-677 
PESTAB. The Chemical Contaminants Program started by the US FDA in 1971 for developing sufficient information to establish guidelines for recognized industrial chemical contaminants of food, anticipating and searching for contaminants which were as yet unrecognized, evaluating the hazards if these were found in foods, and taking steps to eliminate or minimize the problems thus created is discussed. The findings by the program on specific chemicals are reported. These include chlorinated benzenes, chlorinated benzyl chlorides and benzotrifluorides, chloronitrobenzenes, pentachloroaniline, pentachlorophenyl methyl sulfide, chlorinated cycloaliphatics, chlorinated aliphatics, brominated aromatics, phosphates, and aromatic amines.