Food additives - flavors, colors, salts, antioxidants (and other materials) - are important ingredients in the preparation of safe, stable, and palatable prepared foods. For over 50 years the Food Chemicals Codex has guided food additive users and manufacturers by specifying baseline quality limits - including minimum purity and maximum impurity limits, among other things - for food additives. In recent years the FCC has expanded its efforts to ensure the safety of the food supply by including methods and strategies for assessing the authenticity of food ingredients. This presentation is designed to provide clarity regarding the FCC specification development process - from proposal to editing, revision, and review - that culminates in published FCC food additive specifications that help to preserve the safety and integrity of the food supply.

How the food chemicals codex evolves to ensure the safety of the food supply

254th National Meeting (2017)

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