Difference between revisions of "Food additives"

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Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA)
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Consolidated: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008R1333-20141106
 
Consolidated: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008R1333-20141106
 
  
 
=== Scientific studies ===
 
=== Scientific studies ===

Revision as of 23:29, 26 February 2015

Food Additives

Objectives

The goals of those projects are to:

  • gather data on food additives so that it can be used in conjunction with other Open Food Facts data
  • determine what food additives data should be displayed on Open Food Facts product pages
  • create information pages for each food additive
  • possibly classify the risk of each additive so that it can be shown on Open Food Facts

Types of data

Codes, names and synonyms

See Global additives taxonomy

Additive production

  • Sources of the additive
    • Natural extract / chemical synthesis
    • Vegetarian, vegan
    • Containing pork
  • How is the additive produced?
  • Religious certifications
    • Casher
    • Halal

Additive uses

Types of products containing the additive

Health risks

Sources of data

For each source, we should note under which licence the data is available.

Laws and regulations

WHO / FAO

Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA)

http://www.codexalimentarius.org/standards/gsfa/


European Union

Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives

Original: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32008R1333

Consolidated: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008R1333-20141106

Scientific studies

Scientific opinions

Scientific Opinions of EFSA on Food Colourings


Food producers

NGOs

Consumers associations

Data collection