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Codex Committee on Food Additives
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CJW-711
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Sessions and documents
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View documents of the Codex Committee on Food Additives
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Legal Framework
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Article of Constitution
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Rule XI-1 (b) of the Rules of Procedure of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
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Rules of Procedure
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The Rules of Procedure of the Commission shall apply mutatis mutandis to its subsidiary bodies. (Rule XI.11)
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Category
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Cat. 1
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Purpose
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- To establish or endorse permitted maximum levels for individual food additives;
- to prepare priority lists of food additives for risk assessment by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives;
- to assign functional classes to individual food additives;
- to recommend specifications of identity and purity for food additives for adoption by the Commission;
- to consider methods of analysis for the determination of additives in food; and
- to consider and elaborate standards or codes for related subjects such as the labelling of food additives when sold as such.
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Membership
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Open to all Members of the Commission
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Chairperson
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Dr Fanyong Xiang
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Languages
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English, French and Spanish
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Document symbol
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CX/FA
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Frequency of Sessions
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Normally one session per year
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Contact information/email
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[email protected] or [email protected]
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Web site
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CODEX Alimentarius
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First Session
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May 1964
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Remarks
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- Host Government: China (Netherlands until 38th Session).
- Renamed as Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants by the 17th Session of the Commission (1987); renamed again by the 29th Session of the Commission (2006) as Codex Committee on Food Additives, due to the creation of a Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CX-735).
- Subsidiary Body of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission
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