Crack the Food Chemicals Code

摘要

The Food Chemicals Codex strengthens public safety networks to protect consumers from dangerous foods. The Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) is a compendium of monographs for food ingredients from the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations specify that food and color additives must receive pre-market approval and that other food ingredients must be generally recognized as safe (GRAS). For clarity, we use the term food ingredients for both food and color additives and GRAS materials. FCC began in 1961 following passage of the 1958 Food Additive Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.1 FCC was developed by volunteer experts of the Committee on Food Chemicals Codex of the Institute ofMedicine's (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board. In many interesting ways, the committee's procedures in developing FCC paralleled activities at USP.