Safety Evaluation and Management of Food Additives by FAO/WHO

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 812-815
Author(s):  
Bo Xu
Keyword(s):  
Food Additives ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food Control ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Supervision And Management ◽  
The World

Safety and management of additives used in food have become important issues of public and administrative concern. The most important thing to say is that the use of food additives should be controlled by law. An extensive evaluation on the safety of new additives must be carried out before they are allowed to use in food. This paper discusses the safety evaluation and management system for food additives adopted by the FAO/WHO Codex committees, introduces the internationally standards, guidelines, codes and recommendations established by the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme with the purpose of protecting the health of consumers and ensuring fair practices in the world food trade. The conclusion is that these international standards and codes have become the global reference for national food control agencies in performing their food additive supervision and management responsibilities on behalf of the consumers.

Safety and Management of Food Additives in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 781-784 ◽  
pp. 1328-1331
Author(s):  
Bo Xu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Food Control ◽  
Food Management ◽  
Supervision And Management ◽  
The Government

Food safety is an important issue related to the government regulatory authorities, food industry and food consumers. And the increasing use of food additives has become a matter of public and administrative concern, so an extensive safety evaluation on food additives must be carried out and the use of the additives in food should be controlled by law. In the United States, the Congress has entrusted the FDA with the responsibility to ensure that new additives to be used in foods and the foods the consumers purchase are safe. This paper discusses the supervision and management system of food additives in the United States. The conclusion is that FDA has developed a scientifically rigorous, sound and dependable system to assure the safety of food, thus a new food additive must be approved by FDA before it can be used in food. Management of food additives in the United States is also a helpful reference for government food control agencies in other countries.

Evaluation of By-Products of Potato Peel as Food Additive

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferhat Yuksel ◽  
Aysun Durmaz
Keyword(s):  
Food Additives ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Potato Peel ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Daily Energy Intake ◽  
Nutritional Properties ◽  
The World ◽  
Daily Energy ◽  
Important Food Source ◽  
By Products

: The potato plant is an important food source produced all over the world and it provides a significant portion of daily energy intake in nourishment. In addition, a significant rate of vitamins, fibre, mineral matters, protein, and fat can be obtained by consuming potato. In this study, the production, consumption, and usage areas of potato, a crucial source of our diet, and the possibilities of using it as food additives with the nutritional properties of its peel have been investigated. Generally, potato is consumed after its peel is removed in the homes and industrial areas and many of these peels are disposed off as wastes. Studies show that potato peel has a high content of dietary fibre, protein, carbohydrate, mineral matters, vitamin, phenolic, and antioxidant. The use of potato peel as food additives have also been discussed in this study.

scholarly journals Food additives: Risk analysis and legislation

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Ivan Stanković ◽  
Milica Zrnić-Ćirić
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Expert Committee ◽  
Member States ◽  
Codex Alimentarius

Food additive is any substance not normally consumed as a food, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose results in it or its by-products becoming a component of such foods. The use of each new additive is preceded by a risk analysis consisting of three interrelated components: risk assessment, risk management and risk communication. At the international level in the Codex Alimentarius system, risk assessment is performed by the Joint (FAO/WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and risk management by Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) that, based on the results of the risk assessment, prepares international standards and recommendations that Member States incorporate into national regulations. At the level of the European Union (EU), risk assessment is performed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as a basis for risk management by the European Commission (EC) that prepares food additive legislation, and member states authorities responsible for official control of additives on the market. Risk communication takes place between all stakeholders including academia, food producers and consumers. The regulation on additives in the Republic of Serbia is fully harmonized with the EU legislation in this area.

Dissection of the potential pharmacological function of neohesperidin dihydrochalcone – a food additive – by in vivo substances profiling and network pharmacology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Xiang Zhang ◽  
Yu-Lin-Lan Yuan ◽  
Shuang-Shuang Cui ◽  
Min Li ◽  
Xuan Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Network Pharmacology ◽  
The World ◽  
Pharmacological Function

Food additives are widely used in our daily life, and the side-effects caused by them have gained extensive attention around the world.

scholarly journals In Utero Phase Carcinogenicity Testing

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-353
Author(s):  
David G. Hattan
Keyword(s):  
Food Additives ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
In Utero ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Neonatal Exposure ◽  
In Utero Exposure ◽  
Bladder Tumors ◽  
Environmental Health Sciences ◽  
Transplacental Exposure ◽  
Adult Exposure

Early experimentation with transplacental exposure (1940s) demonstrated that expression of lung tumors in mice was enhanced when urethane was given during development in utero. In 1970, a U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panel on the safety evaluation of food additives and pesticides met and recommended that an in utero exposure phase be added to carcinogenicity testing (U.S. FDA, 1 971). An analysis was conducted of studies in the open scientific literature, in food additive studies available in FDA files and in studies performed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). While exposure to rodents during only the adult phase provided qualitatively similar results, early neonatal exposure typically provided slightly higher incidences of turnors, and decreased latency to turn or onset in certain scientific studies. In a series of studies recently performed by the NIEHS with three known animal carcinogens, neonatal or adult exposure produced similar tumors in similar tissues. The food additive saccharin, which shows bladder tumors, and eugenol reliably produced tumors only with neonatal exposure. Implieations for carcinogenicity testing of food additives are discussed in light of these experi-mental findings.

scholarly journals Retrospective analysis of the development history of the Chinese food additive standards system based on the CODEX principles

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongdong Liu ◽  
Boxiang Liu ◽  
Gaowei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Food Additives ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Health ◽  
Standard Industrial Classification ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Member States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chinese Food

AbstractIn 1984, China joined the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), which was established by the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which consists of 188 member states and one member organization. Since then, China has taken an active role in various initiatives organized by the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) and has shared resources and experience with its Codex member states, thus effectively promoting the development of the Chinese food additive standards system. Instead of a country where almost no systematic food additive standard were available, China has become the host country of the CCFA’s sessions. China’s food additive industry is the only one that is supported by international standards, out of the industries of the International Standard Industrial Classification and China’s national economy. Based on this case, four strategic milestones are summarized by retrospectively analyzing the history of the development of Chinese food additive standards from 1978 to the present. China is expected to share its valuable experience and provide references for the improvement of food additive standards systems in multiple developing countries, so promoting food safety and trade harmonization. With the advances in core technologies in the food industry, the future development of food additive standardization is also forecast in this review.

Non-observed Economy in the CIS Countries

2009 ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Yu. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
International Standards ◽  
General Level ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
System Of National Accounts ◽  
The World ◽  
Cis Countries ◽  
Key Indicators

The article contains a review of underlying concepts and definitions of non-observed economy which are formulated in the international standards on this topic and used by the CIS countries for computation of GDP and other key indicators of the System of National Accounts. The article considers the methods used for measuring non-observed economy and some figures on the share of non-observed economy in GDP of the CIS countries and other selected countries of the world. Perfection of methods of measuring non-observed economy and raising reliability of its estimates requires improvement of general level of work on compilation of national accounts.

TO THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TORTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
ASTEMIR ZHURTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation

Cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as humiliate the dignity, are prohibited in most countries of the world, and Russia is no exception in this issue. The article presents an analysis of the institution of responsibility for torture in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the current criminal law of Russia superficially and fragmentally regulates liability for torture, in connection with which the author formulated the proposals to define such act as an independent crime. In the frame of modern globalization, the world community pays special attention to the protection of human rights, in connection with which large-scale international standards have been created a long time ago. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international acts enshrine prohibitions of cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as degrade the dignity.Considering the historical experience of the past, these standards focus on the prohibition of any kind of torture, regardless of the purpose of their implementation.

STEVIA PLANT - ALTERNATIVE SWEETNER IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1213-1217
Author(s):  
Jovana Džoljić ◽  
Ljiljana Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Food Additives ◽  
Functional Class ◽  
World Health ◽  
Food Technology ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Safety Studies ◽  
Negative Side Effects ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Agricultural Organization

Food and Agricultural Organization as a “sweeteners” consider products used for sweetening derived from sugar crops, cereals, fruits or milk, or that are produced by insects. Sweeteners, as an additive, have important role for technological functions of food, especially in providing texture, bulk and color, and also as preservative agents. Regardless the numerous sweeteners, alternative sweeteners to sucrose are in main focus for implementation in food industry. Nowadays Food and Agricultural Organization and World Health Organization Food standards, Codex Alimentarius Commission (2018) accepted list of 27 food additives that have the functional class “sweetener”. Nowadays, alternative sweeteners and their application in food technology are in main focus of scientist. Stevia plant stands for one of the most important natural intense sweetener, since stevia glycosides are almost 400 times sweeter than sucrose. Extracts of stevia represents a powerful tool for reducing sugars in food and beverages, which can be acceptable substitutes to full sugar versions of this products. Regarding the data of Euromonitor international, new food products containing stevia grew 10% from 2016 to 2017. The biggest increment in stevia use was noticed in categories of snacks, juice drinks, dairy, carbonated soft drinks and confectionery. Barriocanal et al. (2008) highlighted that safety studies reported no negative side effects of stevia use. Can be expected that in recent future use of S. rebaudiana as sweetener would be extended to almost all the world’s countries, regarding all discovered beneficial health effects.

State Marketing as a Factor in the Strengthening of Macroeconomic Indicators

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anara Kamalova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Public Services ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
External Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Internal Potential

This article deals with the state of marketing and its role in strengthening macroeconomic indicators of the Kyrgyz Republic, but it does not apply in the country properly. The need for the use of state marketing is intensifying with the entering of Kyrgyzstan to EEU as a member. To improve the structure of foreign trade, it is proposed marketing initiatives and research on the study of the external market, the internal potential of the country, specialization of production, the creation of "umbrella brand" for the country, the best way of satisfying consumers of public services, effective control of the quality and safety of products, regulation of the relevant parameters, that meet international standards, the fight against counterfeit, creating a positive image of Kyrgyzstan in the world and others.

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