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Compendium of food additive specifications


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This volume of FAO JECFA Monographs contains specifications prepared at the 97th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Rome from 31 October to 9 November 2023. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the safety of certain food additives and flavourings. The present meeting was the ninety-seventh in a series of similar meetings. The tasks before the Committee were to (a) further elaborate principles governing the evaluation of food additives; (b) undertake safety evaluations of certain food additives; (c) review and prepare specifications for certain food additives; and (d) establish specifications for certain flavouring agents. The Committee evaluated the safety of one food additive, revised the specifications for three food additives, evaluated the safety of two groups of flavouring agents and revised the specifications for eight flavouring agents.







Compendium of Food Additive Specifications


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"This volume of FAO JECFA Monographs contains specifications of identity and purity, prepared at the 76th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva on 5-14 June 2012"--Page ix.




Compendium of Food Additive Specifications


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The specification of identity and purity of food additives, established by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), identify substances that have been subject to biological testing to ensure they are of adequate purity for the safe use in food. This volume contains specification prepared at the fifty-seventh meeting of JECFA and should be considered in conjunction with the Report of the meeting, which will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series.




Compendium of Food Additive Specifications


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This document contains food additive specification monographs, analytical methods, flavouring agent specifications and other information prepared at the seventy-sixth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was held on Geneva, Switzerland from 5 14 June 2012. The specification monographs provide information on the identity and purity of food additives used directly in foods or in food production.




Compendium of Food Additive Specifications


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Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, 67th meeting, Rome, 20-29 June 2006




Compendium of Food Additive Specifications


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"This volume of FAO JECFA Monographs contains specifications of identity and purity, prepared at the 68th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva on 19-28 June 2007"--P. xi.




Compendium of Food Additive Specifications. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), 87th Meeting June 2019


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This document contains food additive specification monographs, analytical methods, and other information prepared at the eighty-seventh meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was held in Rome, 4–13 June 2019. The tasks before the Committee were (a) to elaborate principles governing the evaluation of food additives, (b) to undertake safety evaluations of certain food additives, (c) to review and prepare specifications for certain food additives and (d) to establish specifications for certain flavouring agents. The Committee evaluated the safety of six food additives (including one group of food additives) and revised the specifications for five other food additives (including one group of food additives) and nine flavouring agents. This publication contains information that is useful to all those who work with or are interested in food additives and their safe use in food.