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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786817203321

Titolo

Evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants : Seventy-seventh report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva : , : World Health Organization, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

92-4-069168-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (86 p.)

Collana

WHO Technical Report Series, , 0512-3054 ; ; 983

Disciplina

615.954

Soggetti

Food additives - Toxicology

Food contamination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) met in Rome, Italy from 4 to 13 June 2013."--Page 1.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-70).

Sommario/riassunto

This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various food additives and a food contaminant with a view to concluding as to safety concerns 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 of and assessment of dietary exposure to food additives. A summary follows of the Committee's evaluations of technical toxicological and dietary exposure data for seven food additives (advantame; glucoamylase from Trichoder