Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) is an international scientific expert committee that is administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been meeting since 1956, initially to evaluate the safety of food additives. Its work now also includes the evaluation of contaminants, naturally occurring toxicants and residues of veterinary drugs in food.
Procedural guidance
Guidance documents
The guidance for the preparation of working papers primarily provide information to experts preparing working papers for JECFA meetings. The guidance will also be useful to parties interested in understanding the process followed by JECFA in the evaluation of food chemicals. Sponsors are encouraged to submit monographs summarizing their data using these formats.
Food additives
Food contaminants
Residues of veterinary drugs
Systematic Literature Searches
1 January 2017
Guidance to JECFA Experts on Systematic Literature Searches
There is increasing discussion on the use of systematic review methodology in chemical risk assessment. While it is difficult to apply such rigorous methodology...
Working Procedures
This document briefly describes the procedures applied to JECFA in accordance with the WHO Regulations for Expert Advisory Panels and Committees. It also...