Summary
The Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications consolidates all specifications monographs adopted by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives from its 1st meeting (1956) through its 65th meeting (2005), published as FAO JECFA Monographs Volume 1. The document is a reference compendium for food additive identity and purity specifications including some metal-containing additives (notably aluminium-based food additives such as sodium aluminium silicate, sodium aluminium phosphate, and aluminium-containing colorants and stabilizers). For the wiki, this compendium is relevant primarily as the provenance reference for any HMT&C audit of metal-containing food additives in finished products.
Provenance notes
License CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-IGO per WHO/FAO standard publication terms. The document is provided as filename a0691e.pdf in raw/, which corresponds to the FAO publication identifier in the FAO document repository.
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