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MeetingMeeting document67th Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) meeting - Food additives. Summary and conclusions, 2006 2006
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No results found.A meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Rome, Italy, from 20 to 29 June 2006. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate certain food additives and food contaminants. The present meeting was the sixty-seventh in a series of similar meetings. The tasks before the Committee were (a) to elaborate further principles for evaluating the safety of food additives including flavouring agents; (b) to evaluate certain food additives and food contaminants; and ( c) to review and prepare specifications for selected food additives. -
Book (series)Normative documentCompendium of Food Additive Specifications. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), 73rd Meeting 2010. FAO JECFA Monographs 10 2010
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No results found.This document contains food additive specifications monographs, analytical methods and other information, prepared at the seventy-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 8 to 17 June 2010. The specifications monographs provide information on the identity and purity of food additives used directly in foods or in food production. The main three objectives of these specifications are to identify the foo d additive that has been subjected to testing for safety, to ensure that the additive is of the quality required for use in food or in processing, and to reflect and encourage good manufacturing practice. This publication and other documents produced by JECFA contain information that is useful to all those who work with or are interested in food additives and their safe use in food. -
Book (series)Normative documentCompendium of food additive specifications. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), 80th meeting 2015 - FAO JECFA Monographs 17 2015
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No results found.This document contains food additive specification monographs, analytical methods, and other information prepared at the seventy-ninth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was held in Rome, Italy, from 16 – 25 June 2015. The specification monographs provide information on the identity and purity of food additives used directly in foods or in food production. The main three objectives of these specifications are to identify the food additive that has be en subjected to testing for safety, to ensure that the additives are of the quality required for use in food or in processing and to reflect and encourage good manufacturing practice. This publication and other documents produced by JECFA contain information that is useful to all those who work with or are interested in food additives and their safe use in food.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookThe future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges 2017
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No results found.What will be needed to realize the vision of a world free from hunger and malnutrition? After shedding light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, the study provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done. “Business as usual” is not an option. Major transformations in agricultural systems, rural economies, and natural resources management are necessary. The present study was undertaken for the quadrennial review of FAO’s strategic framework and for the preparation of the Organization Medium-Term plan 2018-2021.