{"term":{"id":"15872","title":"maximum residue limit for veterinary drugs","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - maximum residue limit for veterinary drugs","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15872","code":"15872","status":"current","initialism":"<em>initialism<\/em>: MRL","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Maximum contents of a drug residue (expressed as \\(\\pu{mg kg-1}\\) or \\(\\pu{\\upmu g kg-1}\\) fresh weight) recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission to be legally permitted or recognized as acceptable in or on food commodities and animal feeds.","notes":{"1":"The MRL is based on the type and amount of residue considered to be without any toxicological hazard for human health as expressed by the acceptable daily intake (ADI) or on the basis of a temporary ADI that uses an additional uncertainty factor. It also takes into account other relevant public health risks as well as food technological aspects."},"links":[{"term":"Codex Alimentarius Commission","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15571"},{"term":"health","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15757"}],"sources":["PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1256 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac200779071153)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15872\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15872\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15872\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'maximum residue limit for veterinary drugs' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.15872","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-23T12:30:37+00:00"}}