Author: Food and Agriculture Organization
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization
Keywords: food, additives, jecfa, fao, 67th, meeting, monographs, additive, committee, joint, compendium, expert, specifications
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 9251055599
ISBN-13: 9789251055595

This document contains food additive specifications monographs, analytical methods and other information, prepared at the sixty-seventh meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was held in Rome, Italy, from June 20 to 29, 2006. The specifications monographs provide information on the identity and purity of food additives used directly in foods or in food production. The main three objectives of these specifications are to identify the food additive that has been subjected to testing for safety, to ensure that the additive is of the quality required for use in foo