Food additives

Document Number: NL 761 : 2017
Sector: Food Technology
TC: NL TC 1008
ICS: 67.220.20
1.1 FOOD ADDITIVES INCLUDED IN THIS STANDARD Only the food additives listed herein are recognized as suitable for use in foods in conformance with the provisions of this Standard. 1 Only food additives that have been assigned an Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) or determined, on the basis of other criteria, to be safe2 by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)3 and an International Numbering System (INS) designation by Codex will be considered for inclusion in this Standard. The use of additives in conformance with this Standard is considered to be technologically justified. 1.2 FOODS IN WHICH ADDITIVES MAY BE USED This Standard sets forth the conditions under which food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have previously been standardized by Codex. The use of additives in foods standardized by Codex is subject to the conditions of use established by the Codex commodity standards and this Standard. The General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) should be the single authoritative reference point for food additives. Codex commodity committees have the responsibility and expertise to appraise and justify the technological need for the use of additives in foods subject to a commodity standard. The information given by the commodity committees may also be taken into account by the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) when considering food additive provisions in similar non-standardized foods. When a food is not covered by a commodity committee, CCFA will appraise the technological need. 1.3 FOODS IN WHICH ADDITIVES MAY NOT BE USED Food categories or individual food items in which the use of food additives is not acceptable, or where use should be restricted, are defined by this Standard. 1.4 MAXIMUM USE LEVELS FOR FOOD ADDITIVES The primary objective of establishing maximum use levels for food additives in various food groups is to ensure that the intake of an additive from all its uses does not exceed its ADI. The food additives covered by this Standard and their maximum use levels are based in part on the food additive provisions of previously established Codex commodity standards, or upon the request of governments after subjecting the requested maximum use levels to an appropriate method for verifying the compatibility of a proposed maximum level with the ADI. Annex A of this Standard may be used as a first step in this regard. The evaluation of actual food consumption data is also encouraged.