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.

Calls for data

About the calls for data

The WHO JECFA/Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) secretariat for the scientific advice program invites the submission of information on substances that will be evaluated at future meetings as described in its requests for data. As noted in the requests for data, reports of studies that are submitted should contain detailed information. Those who submit information are invited to prepare monographs summarizing the data that they are submitting as described in its various guidelines for the preparation of working papers for JECFA and JMPR. The procedural guidelines describe the procedures used by JECFA and in its evaluation of food additives, contaminants in food, residues of veterinary drugs and for pesticides when it comes to JMPR.

 

 

List of calls