Internet Links and Documents

Documents

Selected documents below have been chosen to provide the reader with access to some additional background information concerning ochratoxin A, existing guidelines and risk assessments, in order to support the information provided elsewhere on this website.

In addition, selected bibliographies, and other downloadable supporting documentation and material, are available as part of the 'Good Hygiene Practices along the coffee chain' training tool, covering topics such as: OTA producer mycology; occurrence of OTA; OTA toxicity; good practices in primary production, Good Hygiene Practices; the international regulatory system; monitoring; application of HACCP etc.

• Regulatory / Risk Assessment:
• Mycotoxins / Ochratoxin A:
• Quality Improvement / Prevention of OTA:

Regulatory / Risk Assessment:

2002 SCOOP Study (Report of experts participating in Task 3.2.7: Assessment of dietary intake of Ochratoxin A by the population of EU member states, January 2002)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/scoop/3.2.7_en.pdf

Bakker, M., Pieters, M.N.: Risk assessment of ochratoxin A in the Netherlands, 2002
http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/388802025.pdf

Duris, D.: Coffee and Ochratoxin Contamination; Food Safety Management in Developing Countries - Proceedings of the International Workshop, 2002
http://wwww.cirad.fr/colloque/fao/pdf/19-duris.pdf

European Commission, Summary Report from the Toxicological Safety Meeting, Standing Committee on the Food Chain, February 2004
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/rc/scfcah/toxic/rap10_en.pdf

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), 56^th Meeting, February 2001,
Summary and Conclusions (see: 'Ochratoxin A', pp.20-24)
ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/ccfac33/56th%20JECFA%20Summary.pdf

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Mycotoxins / Ochratoxin A:

FAO: Mycotoxin prevention and control in foodgrains
A collaborative publication of the UNDP/FAO Regional Network Inter-Country Cooperation on Preharvest Technology and Quality Control of Foodgrains (REGNET) and the ASEAN Grain Postharvest Programme
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5036e/x5036E00.htm

Food, Nutrition and Agriculture, No. 23, 1999
Third Joint FAO/WHO/UNEP International Conference on Mycotoxins
http://www.fao.org/es/esn/publications/fna/article.jsp?lang=en&myURI=id6624

Varga, J., Kevei, E., Téren, J., Kozakiewicz, Z.: Ochratoxin Production by Aspergillus Species; Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1996, 4461–4464
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/62/12/4461.pdf

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Quality Improvement / Prevention of OTA:

European Coffee Federation
Enhancement of Coffee Quality through the Prevention of Mould Formation, Code of Practice, June 2002
http://www.ecf-coffee.org/files/contracts_codeofprac.pdf

European Coffee Federation
OTA risk management: Guidelines for green coffee buying, March 2005
http://www.ecf-coffee.org/files/GuidelinesGreenCoffeeBuyingDef110105.pdf

FAO: Food and Nutrition Paper, 73, 2001
Manual on the application of the HACCP system in mycotoxin prevention and control
http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y1390e/y1390e00.htm

FAO: Food Quality and Safety Systems - A Training Manual on Food Hygiene and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System, 1998
http://www.fao.org/docrep/W8088E/W8088E00.htm

International Coffee Organization (ED 1763/00 Rev. 1), Updated guidelines on how to improve coffee quality by preventing mould growth, May 2001
http://www.ico.org/electdocs/archives/cy2000-01/english/ed/ed1763r1.pdf

International Coffee Organization
Resolution on "Quality Improvement Programme" - No. 407 (May 2002)
Resolution on "Quality Improvement Programme - Modifications" - No. 420 (May 2004)

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