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Evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants : Seventy-seventh report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization.
- Series:
- Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; 983.
- WHO Technical Report Series, 0512-3054 ; 983
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food additives--Toxicology--Congresses.
- Food additives.
- Food contamination--Congresses.
- Food contamination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (86 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives and a food contaminant with a view to concluding as to safety concerns and to preparing specifications for identity and purity. The first part of the report contains a general discussion of the principles governing the toxicological evaluation of and assessment of dietary exposure to food additives. A summary follows of the Committee's evaluations of technical toxicological and dietary exposure data for seven food additives (advantame; glucoamylase from Trichoder
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. General considerations
- 3. Specific food additives
- 4. Contaminants
- 5. Future work and requests for data
- 6. Recommendations
- Acknowledgements
- Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
- Toxicological and dietary exposure information and information on specifications
- GEMS/Food Cluster Diets 2012.
- Notes:
- "The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) met in Rome, Italy from 4 to 13 June 2013."--Page 1.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-70).
- Description based on print version record.
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP12.30 0.
- ISBN:
- 92-4-069168-5
- OCLC:
- 894632383
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