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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/or development of specifications

Originally proposed by:

Acesulfame K (specifications only)

Japan, ISA

Acetylated oxidised starch

Netherlands

b-Carotene (natural fermentation from Blakeslea trispora)

Netherlands

a-Cyclodextrin

Hungary

Flavouring agents

USA

Invertase from Saccharomyces species

European Union

Pectin (specifications only)

IPPA

Pimaricin

CCFAC

Food additives removed earlier from the GSFA (sodium ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate, sodium propyl p-hydroxybenzoate, sodium methyl p-hydroxybenzoate, calcium sulfite, sodium formate, calcium formate, synthetic gamma-tocopherol, synthetic delta-tocopherol, monomagnesium orthophosphate, calcium tartrate, trisodium diphosphate, dipotassium diphosphate, calcium dihydrogen diphosphate, dimagnesium diphosphate, sodium calcium polyphosphate and sodium trioleate)

CCFAC

Food additive for intake assessment


Quillaia extract

CCFAC

Contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants


Chloropropanols (3-chloro-1,2-propanediol and 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol)

USA

Dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs

CCFAC

Ethyl carbamate

CCFAC

Glycyrrhizic acid

Denmark

Nitrate

Netherlands

Phenylhydrazines (including agaritine)

Denmark

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (including benz[a]pyrene)

Denmark, Canada, Netherlands


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