Guidance document for WHO monographers and reviewers evaluating flavouring agents, version 1.0

Overview

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) has evaluated a large number of flavouring agents grouped according to their chemical structure. Additional flavouring agents in commerce that require evaluation fit into groups that have been evaluated previously. This document provides guidance for preparing meeting report items and, where appropriate, monographs or monograph addenda for those flavouring agents that are additions to already evaluated groups. In this guidance document, reference to JECFA is to JECFA (food additives and contaminants), unless otherwise specified.