Committee on Toxicity

The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is a <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">UK</a> independent scientific committee that provides advice to the <a href="/facts/Food_Standards_Agency/cVn3VTPS">Food Standards Agency</a>, the <a href="/facts/Department_of_Health_(United_Kingdom)/snoYk2Wm">Department of Health</a> and other government departments and agencies on matters concerning the <a href="/facts/Toxicity/qa96rs60">toxicity</a> of chemicals.
It has a number of working groups that publish reports, e.g. previously on <a href="/facts/Phytoestrogen/lsLPIK1k">phytoestrogens</a>. It also works with other scientific advisory committees to develop new guidance, for example for the integration of epidemiological and toxicological evidence.
Pharmacologist <a href="/facts/Frank_Woods_(pharmacologist)/RL0UgJyF">Frank Woods</a> was made a <a href="/facts/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (CBE) in the <a href="/facts/2001_Birthday_Honours/X6JybWTC">2001 Birthday Honours</a>, for services to the committee.
The current chair is toxicologist Professor Alan Boobis.

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Committee on Toxicity