Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA)

FAO/WHO ID No:	CX-711
Reference:	CX/FA
Terms of Reference:	(a) to establish or endorse permitted maximum levels for individual food additives; (b) to prepare priority lists of food additives for risk assessment by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives; (c) to assign functional classes to individual food additives; (d) to recommend specifications of identity and purity for food additives for adoption by the Commission; (e) to consider methods of analysis for the determination of additives in food; and (f) to consider and elaborate standards or codes for related subjects such as the labelling of food additives when sold as such.
Status:	Active
Host:	China

Related Electronic Working Groups

Title (click for details)	Committee	Lang	Host	CO-host	Reg. deadline	Closing date	Status	Links
General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) to the 55th CCFA	CCFA 54	English	United States of America		28/06/2024	17/05/2024	Active	Invitation
Alignment of the food additive provisions of commodity standards and relevant provisions of the GSFA.	CCFA 54	English	Canada	JPN,USA	10/06/2024		Active	Invitation
Electronic Working Group for Revision of the Class Names and the International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS)(CXG36-1989)	CCFA 53	English		Belgium	15/09/2023		Active	Invitation Forum
Alignment of the food additive provisions of commodity standards and relevant provisions of the GSFA	CCFA 53	English	Canada	JPN,USA	05/06/2023	20/11/2023	Active	Invitation
Revision of the Class Names and the International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS)(CXG36-1989)	CCFA 52	English	Belgium	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	05/09/2022	17/06/2022	Closed	Invitation Forum
General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) to the 53rd CCFA	CCFA 52	English	United States of America		10/01/2022	26/08/2022	Closed	Invitation
Alignment of the food additive provisions of commodity standards and relevant provisions of the GSFA	CCFA 52	English	Australia	JPN,USA	07/01/2022	21/10/2022	Closed	Invitation
General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA)	CCFA 51	English	United States of America		21/06/2019		Closed	Invitation
EWG on nitrates and nitrites (2018)	CCFA 50	English	European Union	Netherlands	20/08/2018	20/11/2018	Closed	Invitation Forum
Electronic Working Group (EWG) on the International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS) (CXG 36- 1989)	CCFA 50	English	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Belgium	31/07/2018	25/09/2018	Closed	Invitation Forum
Electronic Working Group (EWG) on note 161 relating to the use of sweeteners	CCFA 50	English	European Union	United States of America	31/07/2018	01/09/2018	Closed	Invitation
EWG on the Alignment of the food additive provisions of commodity standards and relevant provisions of the GSFA	CCFA 50	English	Australia	JPN,USA	22/06/2018	29/10/2018	Closed	Invitation Forum
electronic Working Group (EWG) on the General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA)	CCFA 50	English	United States of America		22/06/2018	20/07/2018	Closed	Invitation
Alignment of the food additive provisions of commodity standards and relevant provisions of the GSFA	CCFA 49	English	Australia	United States of America	21/07/2017		Closed	Invitation
Food additive provisions of the GSFA	CCFA 49	English	United States of America		10/07/2017	06/10/2017	Closed	Invitation
Revision of the Class Names and the International Numbering System for Food Additives	CCFA 49	English	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Belgium	30/06/2017	30/10/2017	Closed	Invitation Forum
Discussion paper on the use of nitrates (INS 251, 252) and nitrites (INS 249, 250)	CCFA 49	English	European Union	Netherlands	30/06/2017	30/10/2017	Closed