Compendium of Food Additive Specifications
Nombre de pages: 127 pages
ISBN: 9251052468, 9789251052464
Edition: Food & Agriculture Org.
Date de publication: Food & Agriculture Org.
Description: This document is one of three publications prepared by the sixty-third session of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2004, and dedicated to the evaluation of food additives. The report of the meeting will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series and the toxicological monographs in the WHO Food Additives Series. Specifications of certain food additives in this document provide information on their identity and purity. The three main objectives of these specifications are to identify the substance that has been subject to biological testing, to ensure that the substance is of the quality required for safe use in food and to reflect and encourage good manufacturing practice. This publication will be useful to all those who work with or are interested in food additives and their safe use in food