The FCC is a compendium of internationally recognized standards for the purity and identity of food ingredients, featuring ~1100 monographs for food-grade chemicals, processing aids, foods, flavoring agents, vitamins, and functional food ingredients.  With public and stakeholder guidance, FCC establishes vetted food ingredient specifications and supporting test procedures that help manufacturers, suppliers, and regulators safeguard the food supply; USP Reference Standards are often incorporated into these monograph methods.  The use of USP Reference Standards facilitates rapid and unbiased decisions on the quality and identity of food ingredients; enhances the reliability of analytical test results; and serves as a value-added information source wihtin the context of associated FCC monographs.  This talk will focus on this 'extra' information contained by the Reference Standard, and how it complements other FCC and USP activities such as the Food Fraud Database and recent workshops on the identity and characterization of functional food ingredients and probiotics.

USP reference standards as value-added information sources in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC)

245th National Meeting (2013)

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