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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459399303321

Titolo

Evaluation of certain food additives [[electronic resource] ] : seventy-first report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, Switzerland, : World Health Organization, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89742-X

9786612897429

92-4-068561-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (90 p.)

Collana

WHO Technical Report series, , 0512-3054 ; ; 956

Disciplina

664.06

Soggetti

Food additives

Food contamination

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 food additives. 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