Download or read book Compendium of Food Additive Specifications written by Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. Meeting and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specification of identity and purity of food additives, established by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), identify substances that have been subject to biological testing to ensure they are of adequate purity for the safe use in food. This volume contains specification prepared at the fifty-seventh meeting of JECFA and should be considered in conjunction with the Report of the meeting, which will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series.