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Codex Committee on Food Additives (CJW-711)
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Codex Committee on Food Additives |
| Code |
CJW-711 |
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| Sessions and documents |
View documents of the Codex Committee on Food Additives |
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| Legal Framework |
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Article of Constitution
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Rule XI-1 (b) of the Rules of Procedure of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
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Rules of Procedure
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The Rules of Procedure of the Commission shall apply mutatis mutandis to its subsidiary bodies. (Rule XI.11)
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| Category |
Cat. 1 |
| Purpose |
- 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 |
Open to all Members of the Commission |
| Chairperson |
Dr Fanyong Xiang |
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| Languages |
English, French and Spanish |
| Document symbol |
CX/FA |
| Frequency of Sessions |
Normally one session per year |
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| Contact information/email |
[email protected] or [email protected] |
| Web site |
CODEX Alimentarius |
| First Session |
May 1964 |
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| Remarks |
- Host Government: China (Netherlands until 38th Session).
- 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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