U.S. Codex Delegates Schedule Food Additives Meeting

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Under Secretary for
Food Safety and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are convening a
February 16, 2016, public meeting in College Park, Maryland, to discuss
draft U.S. positions for consideration at the 48th Session of the Codex
Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) in Xi’an, China, on March 14-18.
Among other things, CCFA is responsible for establishing or endorsing
permitted maximum levels of individual food additives, proposing risk
assessments to the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
and recommending labeling standards for food additives.

Agenda activities for the February 16 meeting will include discussion of
a paper about the use of specific food additives in wine production; draft
revisions to the food category 01.1 “Milk and dairy-based drinks”; and use
levels for paprika extract. See Federal Register, January 11, 2016.

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