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JECFA), Which Was Held In New_Cover_2016.pdf 1 26/04/2016 15:05:26 20 ISSN 1817-7077 COMPENDIUM OF FOOD ADDITIVE F A O J E C F A M o n o g r a p h s 22 SPECIFICATIONS 84th Meeting 2017 (JECFA), which was held in C M COMPENDIUM Y CM OF FOOD ADDITIVE MY CY SPECIFICATIONS CMY K Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives 86th Meeting 2018 FAO / WHO FAO FAO JECFA Monographs 22 COMPENDIUM OF FOOD ADDITIVE SPECIFICATIONS Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives 86th Meeting Geneva, 12 – 21 June 2018 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations World Health Organization Geneva, 2018 II Required citation: FAO and WHO. 2018. Compendium of Food Additive Specifications. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), 86th Meeting June 2018. FAO JECFA Monographs 22. Rome. 167 pp. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. 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IX SPECIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN FOOD ADDITIVES ............................................................... 1 ANIONIC METHACRYLATE COPOLYMER............................................................................. 3 BASIC METHACRYLATE COPOLYMER ................................................................................. 9 CASSIA GUM ........................................................................................................................ 15 CITRIC AND FATTY ACID ESTERS OF GLYCEROL (TENTATIVE) ..................................... 23 ERYTHROSINE ..................................................................................................................... 27 GLYCEROL ESTER OF WOOD ROSIN ................................................................................ 35 INDIGOTINE .......................................................................................................................... 41 LUTEIN FROM TAGETES ERECTA ...................................................................................... 47 MODIFIED STARCHES ......................................................................................................... 53 NEUTRAL METHACRYLATE COPOLYMER (TENTATIVE) .................................................. 87 SPIRULINA EXTRACT (TENTATIVE) .................................................................................... 93 SPECIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN FLAVOURING AGENTS .................................................... 99 GROUP 1: MISCELLANEOUS NITROGEN-CONTAINING SUBSTANCES ......................... 100 GROUP 2: SATURATED ALIPHATIC ACYCLIC BRANCHED-CHAIN ................................. 102 PRIMARY ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES, AND ACIDS ............................................................ 102 GROUP 3: LINEAR AND BRANCHED-CHAIN ALIPHATIC, UNSATURATED, UNCONJUGATED ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES, ACIDS, AND RELATED ESTERS ............. 103 GROUP 4: CARVONE AND STRUCTURALLY RELATED SUBSTANCES ......................... 104 GROUP 5: MENTHOL AND STRUCTURALLY RELATED SUBSTANCES .......................... 106 GROUP 6: MALTOL AND RELATED SUBSTANCES .......................................................... 110 GROUP 7: ALICYCLIC PRIMARY ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES, ACIDS ............................... 111 AND RELATED ESTERS ..................................................................................................... 111 GROUP 8: FURAN SUBSTITUTED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS, ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES, KETONES, CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND RELATED ESTERS, ...................... 113 SULFIDES, DISULFIDES AND ETHERS ............................................................................. 113 REVISIONS TO EXISTING FLAVOUR SPECIFICATIONS .................................................. 126 SPECTRA OF CERTAIN FLAVOURING AGENTS .............................................................. 127 CORRIGENDUM ..................................................................................................................... 137 ANNEX I: SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE 86th JECFA ............................ 141 ANNEX 2. GENERAL INFORMATION .................................................................................... 153 ANNEX 3. FUTURE WORK AND RECOMMENDATIONS....................................................... 155 SPECIFIC FOOD ADDITIVES (OTHER THAN FLAVOURING AGENTS) ............................ 155 FLAVOURING AGENTS ...................................................................................................... 157 VI FAO JECFA Monographs 22 FAO JECFA Monographs 22 VII LIST OF PARTICIPANTS JOINT FAO/WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON FOOD ADDITIVES, 86th MEETING Geneva, 12 – 21 June 2018 Members Dr S. Barlow, Brighton, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom Dr J. Bend, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Dr D. Benford, Cheddington, London, England, United Kingdom Dr R. Cantrill, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Vice-Chairperson) Dr E. Dessipri, General Chemical State Laboratory, Athens, Greece, currently European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Health Care, Strasbourg, France Dr D. Folmer, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA (Joint Rapporteur) Ms T. Hambridge, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), Kingston, ACT, Australia Dr A. Mattia, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA (Chairperson) Dr U. Mueller, Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA), Symonston, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia (Joint Rapporteur) Dr O.E. Orisakwe, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria Dr J. Schlatter, Zurich, Switzerland Dr J. Smith, Bio|Food|Tech, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Dr J.R. 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