The One-hundred-and-first meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Geneva from 15 to 21 October 2025. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the safety of certain food contaminants, specifically inorganic and organic arsenic species. Arsenic is on the Priority list of contaminants for evaluation by JECFA, last amended for this contaminant at the Eighteenth session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF).

The Fifty-second Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) requested the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) to undertake full production-to-consumption risk assessments of L. monocytogenes in foods to inform a possible revision of the Guidelines on the application of general principles of food hygiene to the control of Listeria monocytogenes in foods.

The One-hundredth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives was held in Rome from 10 to 19 June 2025. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the safety of certain food additives. The present meeting was the One-hundredth in a series of similar meetings. The tasks before the Committee were to (a) further elaborate principles governing the evaluation of food additives; (b) undertake safety evaluations of certain food additives; and (c) review and prepare specifications for certain food additives.

This factsheet presents key findings from FAO’s report Food safety in personalized nutrition – A focus on food supplements and functional foods, highlighting the food safety challenges linked to the growing use of these products in personalized nutrition.

This factsheet summarizes key insights from the FAO report, Food safety in personalized nutrition – A focus on food supplements and functional foods, on the rising use of food supplements and functional foods within personalized nutrition. 

The FAO Food Safety Foresight Framework Meeting was organized by the Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as part of the activities of the Food Safety Foresight Programme.