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working group additives

Tasks and activities of the working group

     

  • Questions about the quality, approval and use of additives
  • Demarcation issues between food / food supplements / additives / auxiliary agents
  • Opinions on legislative proposals
  • Advice to specialist colleagues on analytical issues; especially regarding the purity requirements of additives
  • Organization and implementation of training events
  • Participation in the development of analytical methods

Members

The working group consists of active and corresponding members who come from official surveillance, trade laboratories, the food industry and research institutions.

leadership of the working group

chairman

dr Bernd Haber
BASF SE, G-ENN/RQ - J660, 4th floor, 0403E
Carl-Bosch-Strasse 38
67056 Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Phone: 0621 6028787,
Email: bernd.haber@basf.com

Deputy

Dipl.LM.Chem. Julia Schreiner
State investigation institute for that
Health and Veterinary Saxony
Email: julia_schreiner@gmx.net

secretary

Silke Fallah
GNT Europe GmbH, Aachen
Email: sfallah@gnt-group.com

Term of office 2023 - 2025

Analytical and food law topics

Analytical topics

     

  • additives and their analysis (especially with regard to purity requirements)
  • Methods JECFA (FAO / WHO); Section 35 Methods

Food law issues

     

  • Opinions on regulations governing additives
  • Purity of additives
  • Demarcation issues
  • Admission of additives

Position papers and statements

     

  • Differentiation of colorants / coloring foods (2024) ( pdf )
  • Food law status of food crops (2023) ( pdf )
  • Statement on the use of plant extracts rich in technologically effective ingredients (2020) ( pdf )
  • Application of the Food Hygiene Regulation (852/2004/EC) to the manufacture of food additives (2005) ( pdf )

Bibliography and important links

Bibliography

     

  • Handbook of Food Additives, edited by P. Kuhnert; B. Muermann; UJ. Salzer loose-leaf collection 5 folders, approx. 3500 pages + CD-Rom with all legal texts (German). Behr's Verlag, Hamburg ISBN 978-3-925673-89-4
  • Lexicon of Food Additives, P.Kuhnert; E. Lück 384 pages 3rd edition 2010, Behr's Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89947-533-3 (included in the manual). Also available as an e-book

Interesting links

Codex Alimentarius http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/en/ http://www.inchem.org/pages/jecfa.html

Archive Statements

     

  • Statement on wheat stalk fibre (“wheat fibre”) (2012) ( pdf )
  • Protective cultures as additives? (2012) ( pdf )
  • Aluminium in food additives and in substances for special nutritional purposes (2008) ( pdf )

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