Commission adopts Recommendation on the methodology for the monitoring of food additive and food flavouring intake

Commission Recommendation (EU) 2023/965 of 12 May 2023 on the methodology for the monitoring of food additive and food flavouring intake.

RECOMMENDS:

(1) For the purposes of this Recommendation the following definitions apply:

1. ‘monitoring of food additive and food flavouring intake’ means the collection of data on the presence and occurrence of food additives and food flavourings in food in order to assess the national dietary intake of food additives and food flavourings and verify the occurrence data used and the dietary intake estimated at the time of the most recent exposure assessment by the Authority or the Scientific Committee on Food;
2. ‘presence data’ means data on the presence or the absence of a specific food additive or food flavouring in a foodstuff;
3. ‘occurrence data’ means the concentration (expressed as mg/l or mg/kg of food, as appropriate) of the food additive or food flavouring in a foodstuff, which includes actual use levels and analytical data;
4. ‘actual use levels’ means the concentration of the food additive or food flavouring reported by business operators to be added to food;
5. ‘analytical data’ means the concentration of the food additive or food flavouring measured in the food;
6. ‘reference point’ means the dose derived from experimental data that is used in risk assessment to establish a safe level (e.g. an acceptable daily intake) or to explore safety concerns by calculating the margin of exposure in case it is not appropriate to establish a safe level or the available data do not allow to establish a safe level;
7. ‘acceptable daily intake’ is the estimated maximum amount of an agent, expressed on a body mass basis, to which individuals in a (sub)population may be exposed daily over their lifetimes without appreciable health risk.

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