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Food additives: EFSA’s new guidance for applicants
New guidance for the submission of food additive applications, reflecting advances in science and the latest risk assessment principles, has been developed on the initiative of...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
18 July 2012
EFSA reviews two publications on the safety of artificial sweeteners
In a statement published today, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concludes that two recent publications on the safety of artificial sweeteners, namely a carcinogenicity...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
Aspartame
28 February 2011
EFSA revises assessment of consumer exposure to steviol glycosides
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has reviewed its previous assessment of consumer exposure to the sweeteners steviol glycosides[1] based on the revised levels of use...
Food ingredients and packaging
Sweeteners
Food additives
26 January 2011
EFSA evaluates the safety of steviol glycosides
The European Food Safety Authority’s scientific Panel on additives, the ANS Panel, has assessed the safety of steviol glycosides, sweeteners extracted from plant leaves, and...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
Sweeteners
14 April 2010
EFSA Advises on the Safety of Aluminium in Food
Scientists at Europe’s food safety watchdog have assessed the safety of aluminium from all sources in food and established a Tolerable Weekly Intake (TWI) of 1 milligram of aluminium...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
15 July 2008
EFSA assesses safety of lycopene in foods
EFSA was asked to assess the safety of the red food colour lycopene from all food sources, considering both that contained naturally in fruit and vegetables and the use of lycopene...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
14 April 2008
EFSA to further evaluate study on food colours and behaviour - Panel to prioritise safety assessment of six study colours
Scientists at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have completed an initial consideration of new research commissioned by the UK Food Standards Agency on food colours and...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
28 September 2007
EFSA to consider new UK study on behavioural changes associated with certain food colours
EFSA has been informed by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) about findings of researchers from Southampton University which suggest that a mixture of certain food colours and the...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
6 September 2007
Food colours: call for data to support re-evaluation
Today EFSA launched a call for data on food colours as part of a systematic re-evaluation of all authorised food additives in the EU. EFSA has been asked by the European Commission...
Food ingredients and packaging
Food additives
7 December 2006
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