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Appendix XVI: Priority List of Food Additives, Contaminants and Naturally Occurring Toxicants Proposed for Evaluation by JECFA

Food Additives for Toxicological and Intake Evaluation and Development of Specifications

Data Availability

Originally Proposed by:

Cross-linked sodium carboxymethyl cellulose

October 2001

Netherlands, OFCA

Flavouring agents

November 2001

USA

Contaminants and Naturally Occurring Toxicants

Data Availability

Originally Proposed by:

Arsenic - full evaluation

2002

JECFA Secretariat

Cadmium - review of studies requested at the fifty-fifth meeting of JECFA

late 2002

Japan

Ethyl carbamate - full evaluation

September 2001

CCFAC

Glycyrrhizic acid - full evaluation

Anytime

Denmark

Nitrate - review of studies requested at the forty-fourth meeting of JECFA

Anytime

Netherlands

Phenylhydrazines (including agaritine) - full evaluation

Anytime

Denmark

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (including benz[a]pyrene) - full evaluation

2002

Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Finland


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