Food Advisory Committee

Recent trends have seen more open acknowledgement of the need to balance scientific and social factors. For example, in the UK the Food Advisory Committee that advises the Food Standards Agency on food safety issues is comprised of a wide range of expertise including toxicologists, chemists, food technologists, economists, and representatives of consumer organisations and the food industry. The Committee is thus able to provide a balanced view that takes all interests into account. 

FDA. 1996. Additional Market Review Information. Briefing Materials for Food Advisory Committee on Dietary Supplements Containing Ephedrine Alkaloids. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, USA. 35pp. 

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board. She wrote Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002) and What to Eat (2006). Her diaryfirst appeared in Global Agenda magazine. 

The WHO has set an acceptable daily intake of carrageenan of not specified as the total daily intake was not considered to represent a hazard to health. In the UK, the Food Advisory Committee has recommended that carrageenan should not be used as an additive for infant formulas. ... 

MAFF. Food Advisory Committee report on the review of the use of additives in foods specially prepared for infants and young children. FdAC/REP/12. London HMSO, 1992. 

Food Advisory Committee. FAC further advice on saccharin. FdAC/REP/9. London MAFF, 1990. 

HACCP Principles. The National Advisory committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods estabhshed seven principles for the HACCP system (36). 

National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, (NACMCF) Ha ard Analysis and Critical Control Point System, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USD A, Washington, D.C., 1989. 

The 1997 Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA) specifically recognizes the right of a licensed pharmacist to compound pharmaceutical products in response to, or in anticipation of an appropriate prescription. The Act also authorized the establishment of an FDA Expert Advisory Committee... 

Food and Drug Administration Arthritis Advisory Committee, September 06,2005, Briefing Information, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company information [online]. Available at http //www. fda.gov/ohrms/ dockets/ac/05/briefing/2005-4170bl index%20with% 20disclaimer.htm... 

Because this hypothesis generated considerable anxiety and had broad pubhc health implications, the Nutrition Foundation (formerly affiliated with the International Life Sciences Institute but now defunct) convened a committee to evaluate the scientific evidence relative to the Feingold hypothesis, and if warranted, provide guidelines for further research. The committee, known as the National Advisory Committee on Hyperkinesis and Food Additives (1975), found no conclusive link between diet and behavior, but could not rule out a possible association since no studies appropriate for testing the hypothesis had been carried out. Based on the committee s recommendations, several doubleblind crossover studies were subsequently conducted, but these produced... 

Chapter 5 of the document reviews the UFs used by UK Government departments, agencies, and their advisory committees in human health risk assessment. Default values for UFs are provided in Table 3 in the UK document with the factors separated into four classes (1) animal-to-human factor, (2) human variability factor, (3) quality or quantity of data factor, and (4) severity of effect factor. The following chemical sectors are addressed food additives and contaminants, pesticides and biocides, air pollutants, drinking water contaminants, soil contaminants, consumer products and cosmetics, veterinary products, human medicines, medical devices, and industrial chemicals. 

PSD. 1999. Methodology for the toxicological assessment of exposures from combinations of cholinesterase inhibiting compounds. Draft document. Medical and Toxicological Panel, Advisory Committee on Pesticides, Pesticides Safety Directorate, UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, April 19,1999. 

Bergman, K. Albanus, L. (1987) Di-(2-ethylhexyl)adipate absorption, autoradiographic distribution and elimination in mice and rats. Food chem. Toxicol, 25, 309-316 BUA (1996) Di-(2-ethylhexyl)adipate (BUAReport 196 by the GDCh-Advisory Committee on Existing Chemicals of Enviromnental Relevance (BUA)), Stuttgart, S. Hirzel... 

Rettig, R. A., L. E. Earley, and R. A. Merrill, eds.. Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committees, Washington, D.C. lOM, National Academy Press, 1992. 

Venlafaxine presentation to the Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacology Advisory Committee. Washington, DC, April 1993. 

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