Compendium of Food Additive Specifications

FAO JECFA Monographs 10

COMPENDIUM
OF FOOD ADDITIVE
SPECIFICATIONS

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
73rd Meeting 2010

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2010

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Table of contents

Part I [474kb]

List of participants
Introduction

Part II [198kb]

Specifications for certain food additives

Activated carbon
Cassia gum
Indigotine
Steviol glycosides
Sucrose esters of fatty acids
Sucrose monoesters of lauric, palmitic and stearic acid
Titanium dioxide

Withdrawal of specifications for certain food additives

Part III [3.769kb]

Specifications for certain flavourings

Revised specifications
New specifications
Spectra of certain flavourings agents
List of new flavourings evaluated in alphabetical order

Part IV [557kb]

Annex 1: Summary of recommendations from the 73rd JECFA
Annex 2: Recommendations and further information required
Corrigenda