Committee on Toxicity

The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is a UK independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and other Government Departments and Agencies on matters concerning the toxicity of chemicals.^[1]

It has a number of working groups that publish reports^[2], eg. one on Phytoestrogens.

References

1. ^ http://cot.food.gov.uk/?view=textonly Committee on Toxicity
2. ^ http://cot.food.gov.uk/cotwg/?view=textonly COT working groups

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