Evaluation of certain food additives: ninety-sixth report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

Overview

The Ninety-sixth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), Geneva, 27 June to 6 July 2023.

The report represents JECFA evaluations of technical, toxicological and epidemiological data, including the occurrence of and dietary exposure to the food additive aspartame.

The report also summaries JECFA assessment of the dietary exposure to two groups of flavouring agents (esters of aliphatic acyclic primary alcohols with branched-chain aliphatic acyclic acids and hydroxy- and alkoxy-substituted benzyl derivatives) and the revised specifications for eight flavouring agents.