Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (59th) (Technical Report Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9241209135 ISBN 13: 9789241209137

Publisher: World Health Organization, 2003

Synopsis

This report represents the conclusions of a joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives, with a view to recommending acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and to prepare specifications for the identity and purity of food additives. The first part of the report contains a general discussion of the principles governing the toxicological evaluation of food additives (including flavouring agents), and the establishment and revision of specifications. A summary follows of the Committee's evaluations of toxicological data on various specific food additives (alitame, cross-linked sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, mineral oils [low- and medium-viscosity], nitrate, nitrite and salatrim and six groups of flavouring agents). Annexed to the report are tables summarizing the Committee's recommendations for ADIs of the food additives and recommendations on the flavouring agents considered, changes in the status of specifications, further information required or desired, and a summary of conclusions on flavouring agents with minimum assay values of 95 per cent or less.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Health Organization
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9241209135
• ISBN 13: 9789241209137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 161