Safety evaluation of certain food additives: Prepared by the Sixty-Fifth Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA): No. 56 (WHO food additives series) - Tapa blanda

This volume contains monographs prepared at the 65th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food additives (JECFA), which met in Geneva, Switzerland on 7 - 16 June 2005. It includes toxicological monograph which summarise the safety data on a number of food additives (Beeswax, Candelilla wax Quillaia extract Type 1 and 2, Phospholipase from fusarium venenatum expressed in Aspergillus oryzae, Calcium L- 5 methyltetrahydrofolate (L-5_MTHF), and Pullulan (Pullulan P1-20)), as well as seven groups of related flavouring agents evaluated by the Procedure for the Safety Evaluation of Flavouring Agents.

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