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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

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CXS 107-1981General Standard for the Labelling of Food Additives when sold as suchCCFA2016
CXS 150-1985Standard for Food Grade SaltCCFA2012
CXG 3-1989Guidelines for Simple Evaluation of Dietary Exposure to Food AdditivesCCFA2014
CXS 192-1995General Standard for Food AdditivesCCFA2023
CXG 36-1989Class Names and the International Numbering System for Food AdditivesCCFA2023
CXA 6-2023List of Codex Specifications for Food AdditivesCCFA2023
CXG 66-2008Guidelines for the Use of FlavouringsCCFA2008
CXG 75-2010Guidelines on Substances used as Processing AidsCCFA2010