ADI

Acceptable daily intake

Agricola

Agricultural on-line access

Agris

Agricultural Research Information Service

a.i.

Active ingredient

CAB

Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux

CCPR

Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (a committee that forms a subsidiary body to organization of the Joint FAO/

WHO Food Standards Programme, the Codex Alimentarius)

CINVESTAV

Centro de Investigaciones y estudios Avanzados de IPN, Mexico

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency of the United States

FAO

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

IUPAC

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

HnRNA

Heterodisperse nuclear ribonucleic acid

JMPR

Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues

LC99

Concentration required to kill 99% of test animals

LD50

Dose required to kill 50% of test animals

MRL

Maximum residue levels

NOAEL (90-d)

No observed adverse effect level within 90 days

ppb

Parts per billion (mg/kg)

ppm

Parts per million (mg/kg)

RNA

Ribonucleic acid

r.h.

Relative humidity

WHO

World Health Organization

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Less than