Eighty-ninth meeting - Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee of Food Additives (JECFA)

Overview

A meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held on a virtual online platform, on 1–12 June 2020. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the safety of certain food additives and flavourings. The present meeting was the 89th in a series of similar meetings. The tasks before the Committee were (a) to further elaborate principles governing the evaluation of food additives, (b) to undertake safety evaluations of certain food additives, (c) to review and prepare specifications for certain food additives and (d) to establish specifications for certain flavouring agents.