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Volume 4 COMBINED COMPENDIUM OF FOOD ADDITIVE SPECIFICATIONS Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives All specifications monographs from the 1st to the 65th meeting (1956�2005) Analytical methods, test procedures and laboratory solutions used by and referenced in the food additive specifications |
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FAO 2006
Revision of Food and Nutrition Paper No. 5
Criteria for Replacement of Older Methods
Hazardous Reagents and Solvents
Analysis of Samples � General Method Instructions
Spectrophotometry and Spectroscopy
Theory and Formulas for Calculation
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers
Inductively Coupled Plasma � Atomic Emission Spectrophotometers
Appearance and Physical Properties
Boiling Point and Distillation Range
Cyclic Phosphate Determination
Method I � Thorium Nitrate Colorimetric Method
Method II � Ion-Selective Electrode Method, Method A
Measurement of Lead and Cadmium by Atomic Absorption Electro-Thermal (Furnace) Atomization Technique
Measurement of Arsenic and Antimony by Atomic Absorption Hydride Technique
Determination of Mercury by Cold Vapour Atomic Absorption Technique
Nitrogen Determination (Kjeldahl Method)
Phosphate Determination as P2O5
Water Determination (Karl Fischer Titrimetric Method)
Chlorinated Organic Compounds Limit Test
Dicyclohexylamine in Cyclamates
1,4-Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
Gum Constituents Identification
Polyols: Thin Layer Chromatography
Readily Carbonizable Substances
Reducing Substances (as Glucose)
Related Foreign Substances in Flavour Enhancers
Spiral Plate Count Method (Alternative Method)
MPN Method (Alternative Method)
α-Amylase Activity (Bacterial)
β-Galactocidase (Lactase) Activity
Glucoamylase Activity (Amyloglucosidase Activity)
Gluteraldehyde Determination in High Fructose Corn Syrup (High Fructose Glucose Syrup).
Protease Activity (Viscometer Method)
Proteolytic Activity, Bacterial (PC)
Proteolytic Activity, Fungal (HUT)
Aromatic Hydrocarbons Determination
Carbon Number at 5% Distillation Point
Identification Tests for Functional Groups
Iodine Value (Modified Wijs Method)
1-Monoglyceride and Free Glycerol Contents
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Polyglycerol Determination in Polyglycerol Esters
Identification by Chromatography
Identification by Spectrophotometry
Colouring Matters Content by Spectrophotometry
Colouring Matters Content of Water-soluble Colouring Matters
Colouring Matters Content of Organic Solvent-soluble Colouring Matters
Colouring Matters Content of Lakes
Colouring Matters Content by Titration with Titanous Chloride
Subsidiary Colouring Matter Content
Hydrochloric acid-insoluble Matter in Lakes
Leuco Base in Sulfonated Triarylmethane Colours
Organic Compounds other than Colouring Matters
Unsulfonated Primary Aromatic Amines
Ring and ball softening point methodAlginates Assay (Carbon Dioxide Determination by Decarboxylation)
Cellulose Derivatives Assay (Ethoxyl and Methoxyl Group Determination)
Polysorbates Assay (Oxyethylene Group Determination)
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