Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the eighty-sixth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
Nov 30, 2020
The monographs contained in this volume were prepared at the eighty-sixth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 1221 June 2018. These monographs summarize the data on selected food additives, including flavouring agents, reviewed by the Committee.
The eighty-sixth report of JECFA has been published by WHO as WHO Technical Report No. 1014. Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of JECFA are listed in Annex 1 of the current publication. The participants in the meeting are listed in Annex 3. A summary of the conclusions of the Committee with respect to the food additives discussed at the meeting is given in Annex 4.
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