Priority-Based Assessment of Food Additives

Priority-based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA) program, 23 667 Priority pollutants, 9 443 Prior sanctioned substances, 12 34 Pristane, 18 592... 

Priority-based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA). It contains administrative, chemical, and toxicological information for over 2000 substances regulated by the FDA as direct, secondary direct, color additives, GRAS substances, and prior-sanctioned substances. In addition, the database contains only administrative and chemical information for less than 1000 such substances. 

The number of agents added to foodstuffs ranges between 2,000 and 20,000 (Bosso and Simon 2008). The database maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), under the program The Priority-Based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA),... 

United States Food and Dmg Administration (1993) Priority-based assessment of food additives (PAFA) database. Washington, DC, USA, United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, p. 58. 

Rulis, A.M., Hattan, D.G., and Morgenroth, V.H. (1984) FDA s priority-based assessment of food additives. 

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