Food additives colors

Center for Eood Safety and AppHed Nutrition (CESAN). This center is responsible for the regulation and approval of food for human consumption, food additives, color additives, and cosmetics. Although CESAN does not regulate meat and poultry, it does set safety and sanitation standards for supermarkets, restaurants, and other retail food estabUshments. 

Test article (FDA) Any food additive, color additive, drug, biological product, electronic product, medical device for human use, or any other article subject to regulation under the FFDCA or PHSA. 

This section discusses the regulation of food additives, colors, and sweeteners in the EU that are subject to three separate Directives. Three important aspects of the approval process for food additives in the EU are that (i) there is a technological need for their use (ii) they are not misleading to the consumer and (iii) they present no health hazard to the consumer (22). The EU Web site contains detailed information for the use of food additives and should be consulted for food additive information (23). 

Three separate Directives must be consulted for the positive list of approved food additives, colors, and sweeteners, including the detailed listing of the food categories and the maximum level of use permitted within each food category. 

The plastics industry is mainly concerned with the Bureau of Foods which conducts research and develops standards on the composition, quality, nutrition, and safety of foods, food additives, colors and cosmetics, and conducts research designed to improve the detection, prevention, and control of contamination. The FDA is concerned about indirect additives. Indirect additives are those substances capable of migrating into food from contacting plastic materials. Extensive tests are carried out by the FDA before issuing safety clearance to any plastic... 

Earlier versions of the Redbook focused on direct food additives and color additives used in food. The Redbook 2000 provides guidance for the safety assessment of food ingredients, including direct food additives, color additives used in food, generally recognized as safe substances, food contact substances and constituents, or impurities of any of the above. 

This is the procedure that has been and is still used by the Joint Experts Committee on Food Additives (FAO/WHO) in evaluating food additives and contaminants. It is also used by the Food and Drug Administration for food additives, color additives, contaminants, natural toxicants, or any other identifiable substance in food. It is built into the Code of Federal Regulations for such use. (3)... 

Uses Food additive colorant for foods and ingested pharmaceuticals, for pigmentation of egg yolks, broiler parts, in skin tanning prods. 

Any food, food additive, color additive, drug, cosmetic, or medical or veterinary device labeled under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act. 

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