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Codex Committee on Food Additives
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CX-711
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Legal Framework
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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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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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Previous Sessions and documents
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44th Session - March 2012 (Hangzhou, China)
43rd Session - March 2011 (Xiamen, Fujian Province, China)
42nd Session - March 2010 (Beijing, China)
41st Session - March 2009 (Shanghai, China)
40th Session - April 2008 (Beijing, China)
39th Session - April 2007 (Beijing, China)
38th Session - April 2006 (The Hague, The Netherlands)
View Reports of the Codex Committee on Food Additives
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Division
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Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division (AGN)
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Contact information/email
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Secretariat@ccfa.cc or Codex@fao.org
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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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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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