Aditivos e aromatizantes alimentares

O Painel dos Aditivos Alimentares e dos Aromatizantes (FAF)* avalia a segurança das substâncias químicas adicionadas aos alimentos e a respetiva exposição dos consumidores. O trabalho do Painel diz respeito principalmente a substâncias avaliadas pela EFSA antes de a sua utilização poder ser autorizada na UE.

Os membros do Painel FAF são cientistas de toda a Europa com experiência em:

  • Avaliação de risco químico e avaliação de segurança dos aditivos alimentares e das substâncias aromatizantes
  • Toxicologia (mamíferos): toxicidade subcrónica e crónica (estudos de dose repetida), genotoxicidade e mutagenicidade, toxicidade reprodutiva e do desenvolvimento, carcinogenicidade, alergenicidade e imunotoxicidade
  • Teste de toxicidade em animais para experiências e teste de toxicidade alternativo
  • Toxicocinética e toxicodinâmica (ADME – absorção, distribuição, metabolismo e excreção) de substâncias
  • Química (química orgânica, inorgânica, analítica e sintética), sobretudo no que se refere à identificação química e especificação das substâncias químicas
  • Avaliação da exposição e inquéritos de consumo
  • Tecnologia alimentar (processos de fabrico e utilização de aditivos alimentares)

* O Painel FAF continua o trabalho na maioria das áreas anteriormente cobertas pelo anterior Painel dos Aditivos Alimentares e Fontes de Nutrientes Adicionados a Géneros Alimentícios (ANS). Além disso, assumiu a responsabilidade pela avaliação de aromatizantes do anterior Painel CEF, tendo transferido a responsabilidade pela avaliação de fontes de nutrientes para o Painel NDA.

Membros do painel

Membros do Painel dos Aditivos Alimentares e dos Aromatizantes, 2018–2024

Composição do painel e declarações de interesses.

Panel composition before 2018
2017-2018

Chair: Maged Younes
Vice-Chair: Ursula Gundert-Remy; Rudolf Antonius Woutersen
Members: Peter Aggett; Fernando Aguilar; Riccardo Crebelli; Birgit Dusemund; Metka Filipic; Maria Jose Frutos Fernandez; Pierre Galtier; David Gott; Gunter Georg Kuhnle; Claude Lambré; Jean-Charles Leblanc; Therese Lillegaard Inger; Peter Moldeus; Alicja Mortensen; Agneta Oskarsson; Ivan Stankovic; Dina Hendrika Waalkens-Berendsen; Matthew Wright

2014-2017

Chair: Mortensen Alicja
Vice-Chair: Lambré Claude; Woutersen Rudolf Antonius
Members: Aguilar Fernando; Crebelli Riccardo; Di Domenico Alessandro; Dusemund Birgit; Frutos Maria Jose; Galtier Pierre; Gott David; Gundert-Remy Ursula; Leblanc Jean-Charles; Lindtner Oliver; Moldeus Peter; Mosesso Pasquale; Oskarsson Agneta; Parent-Massin Dominique; Stankovic Ivan; Waalkens-Berendsen Ine; Wright Matthew; Younes Maged

2011-2014

Chair: Mortensen Alicja
Vice-Chair: Gott David; Lambré Claude
Members: Aguilar Fernando; Crebelli Riccardo; Dusemund Birgit; Galtier Pierre; Gundert-Remy Ursula; Koenig Juergen; Leblanc Jean-Charles; Mosesso Pasquale; Oskarsson Agneta; Parent-Massin Dominique; Rose Martin; Stankovic Ivan; Tobback Paul; Waalkens-Berendsen Ine; Woutersen Rudolf Antonius; Wright Matthew;

2008-2011

Chair: John Christian Larsen
Vice-Chair: Iona Pratt; Ivonne M.C.M Rietjens
Members: Fernando Aguilar; Ruth Charrondiere, until March 2010; Birgit Dusemund; Pierre Galtier; John Gilbert; David Gott; Sandro Grilli; Rainer Gürtler; Georges Kass, until August 2009; Jürgen König; Claude Lambré; Jean-Charles Leblanc; Alicja Mortensen; Dominique Parent Massin; Ivan Stankovic; Paul Tobback; Tatjana Verguieva; Rudolf Antonius Woutersen

The Declarations of Interests and CVs of previous Panel members are available upon interestmanagement [at] efsa.europa.eu (request).

Working groups

Flavourings - FAF Panel

Food Additives Applications - FAF Panel

Food Additives Re-evaluation and Follow-up - FAF Panel

Re-evaluation of miscellaneous food additives - FAF Panel

Sweeteners - FAF Panel

Closed working groups

Information on working groups that have been inactive for more than 10 years can be requested by contacting us here.

Application 2017-2018 - ANS Panel

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Assessment of carcinogenicity of sucralose - ANS Panel

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Flavourings 2014-2018 - CEF Panel

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Genotoxicity 2017-2018 - CEF Panel

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Guidance on Nutrient Sources - ANS Panel

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Phosphates - ANS Panel

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Phosphates - FAF Panel

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Procedures under Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 (Standing WG) - ANS Panel

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Ramazzini Institute study on aspartame in mice and methanol - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of Annatto extracts (E 160b) - FAF Panel

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Re-evaluation of food additives for use in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of Food Additives other than Gums & Colours 2017-2018 - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of Food Colours 2017-2018 - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of Gums and Food Additives from Natural Sources 2017-2018 - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of Nitrates - Nitrites 2014-2017 - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of other miscellaneous food additives with 2018 deadline (Standing WG) - ANS Panel

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Re-evaluation of Starches, Celluloses and Pectins - ANS Panel

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Specifications of Food Additives - FAF Panel

Sulphur Dioxide-Sulphites (E220-228)

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Titanium dioxide (E171) - FAF Panel

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WG Follow-up Tox - FAF Panel

WG on Guidance Update on Flavourings - FAF Panel

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WG on the follow-up of the re-evaluation of sorbic acid and potassium sorbate as food additives - FAF Panel

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WG on the re-evaluation of food additives permitted in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age - FAF Panel

WG on the re-evaluation of remaining food additives other than colours and sweeteners - FAF Panel

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