COVER; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Members; Secretariat; 1. Introduction; 2. General considerations; 3. Specific food additives; 4. Future work; 5. Recommendation; Acknowledgement; References; Annex 1; Annex 2; Annex 3
Summary
This report presents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives, with a view to recommending acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) and to preparing specifications for identity and purity. The first part of the report contains a general discussion of the principles governing the toxicological evaluation and assessment of intake of foodadditives. A summary follows of the Committee's evaluations of technical, toxicological and intake data for certain food additives: branching glycosyltransferase from Rhodothermus obamensis expressed in
