Food additives

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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


USA

Definition of GRAS and Food Additives and Color Additives

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) Section 201 (§321)

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title21/pdf/USCODE-2010-title21-chap9-subchapII-sec321.pdf

Regulation on GRAS substances

21 CFR Part 182: Substances generally recognized as safe.

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=21:3.0.1.1.13&idno=21

21 CFR Part 184: Direct food substances affirmed as generally recognized as safe.

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=21:3.0.1.1.14&idno=21


Regulation on Food Additives

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) Section 409 (§348)

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title21/pdf/USCODE-2010-title21-chap9-subchapIV-sec348.pdf

21 CFR Part 172: Food additives permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=pt21.3.172&rgn=div5

21 CFR Part 173: Secondary direct food additives permitted in food for human consumption

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?&node=pt21.3.173&rgn=div5

21 CFR Part 180: food additives permitted in food or in contact with food on an interim basis pending additional study

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=pt21.3.180&rgn=div5


Regulation on Color Additives

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) Section 721 (§379e)

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title21/pdf/USCODE-2010-title21-chap9-subchapVII-partB-sec379e.pdf

Scientific studies

Scientific opinions

Scientific Opinions of EFSA on Food Colourings


Food producers

NGOs

Consumers associations

Data collection

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