INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON CHEMICAL SAFETY
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
SAFETY EVALUATION OF CERTAIN
FOOD ADDITIVES
WHO FOOD ADDITIVES SERIES: 42
Prepared by the Fifty-first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO
Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
World Health Organization, Geneva, 1999
IPCS - International Programme on Chemical Safety
ANNEX 3
JOINT FAO/WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON FOOD ADDITIVES
Geneva, 9-18 June 1998
Members
Ms J. Baines, Senior Nutritionist, Australian New Zealand Food
Authority, Canberra, Australia (Joint Rapporteur)
Dr Junshi Chen, Deputy Director Institute of Nutrition and Food
Hygiene, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China
(Joint Vice-Chairman)
Dr S.M. Dagher, Department of Biology, American University of Beirut,
Beirut, Lebanon
Dr C.E. Fisher, Head, Risk Analysis Branch, Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, London, United Kingdom
Professor W. Grunow, Head of Food Toxicology Division, Federal
Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine,
Berlin, Germany
Dr D.G. Hattan, Acting Director, Division of Health Effects
Evaluation, Office of Pre-Market Approval, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, United
States (Joint Rapporteur)
Dr Y. Kawamura, Section Chief, Division of Food Additives, National
Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
Dr A.G.A.C. Knaap, Center for Substances and Risk Assessment, National
Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Dr P.M. Kuznesof, Acting Deputy Director, Division of Product
Manufacture and Use, Office of Pre-Market Approval, Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington
DC, United States (Vice-Chairman)
Dr J.C. Larsen, Head, Department of Biochemical and Molecular
Toxicology, Institute of Food Safety and Toxicology, Danish Veterinary
and Food Administration, Soborg, Denmark
Mrs I. Meyland, Senior Scientific Officer, Danish Veterinary and Food
Administration Soborg, Denmark (Joint Rapporteur)
Ms J. Mutamba, Deputy Director, Department of Nutrition, Ministry of
Health, Harare, Zimbabwe
Dr G. Pascal, Scientific Director for Human Nutrition and Food Safety,
National Institute for Agricultural Research, Paris, France
Dr P.J.P. Verger, Head, Observatory of Food Consumption, Paris, France
Dr R. Vilu, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Tallinn Technical
University, Tallinn, Estonia
Professor R. Walker, Emeritus Professor of Food Science, School of
Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United
Kingdom (Chairman)
Mrs H. Wallin, National Food Administration, Helsinki, Finland
Secretariat
Dr P.J. Abbott, Australia New Zealand Food Authority, Canberra,
Australia (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Mrs D. Akkelidou, Director, State General Laboratory, Ministry of
Health, Nicosia, Cyprus (FAO Consultant)
Dr M. DiNovi, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, United
States (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Mr D.F. Dodgen, Alexandria, Virginia, United States (FAO Consultant)
Dr J. Greig, Joint Food Safety and Standards Group, Department of
Health, London, United Kingdom (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr J. Gry, Institute of Food Safety and Toxicology, Danish Veterinary
and Food Administration, Soborg, Denmark (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Mr E.F.F. Hecker, Chairman, Codex Committee on Food Additives and
Contaminants and Senior Coordinator Risk, Substances and Nutrition
Division, Department of Environment, Quality and Health, Ministry of
Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, The Hague, Netherlands
(WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr J.L. Herrman, Scientist, Assessment of Risk and Methodologies,
International Programme on Chemical Safety, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
(WHO Joint Secretary)
Mrs E. Heseltine, Communication in Science, Lajarthe,
Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, France (WHO Editor)
Dr F.N. Johnson, Project Director, Food Chemicals Codex, National
Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, United States (FAO Consultant)
Dr Joseph H. Hotchkiss, Professor, Department of Food Science, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, United States (FAO Consultant)
Professor K. Kojima, Professor Emeritus, College of Environmental
Health, Azubu University, Sagamihara-Shi, Kanagawa-Ken, Japan (FAO
Consultant)
Professor R. Kroes, Director, Research Institute of Toxicology,
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr A. Mattia, Division of Product Policy, Office of Pre-Market
Approval, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and
Drug Administration, Washington DC, United States (WHO Temporary
Adviser)
Dr G. Moy, Food Safety, Programme of Food Safety and Food Aid, WHO,
Geneva, Switzerland
Dr I.C. Munro, CanTox Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (WHO
Temporary Adviser)
Dr A. Nishikawa, Division of Pathology, Biological Safety Research
Center, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan (WHO
Temporary Adviser)
Dr J. Paakkanen, Nutrition Officer, Food Quality Liaison Group, Food
Quality and Standards Service, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, Rome,
Italy FAO Joint Secretary)
Dr B. Petersen, President, Novigen Sciences Inc., Washington DC,
United States (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Professor A.G. Renwick, Clinical Pharmacology Group, University of
Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Mrs M. Riordan, Team Leader (Food Standards), Food and Nutrition
Section, Ministry of Health, Wellington New Zealand (FAO Consultant)
Dr J. Schlatter, Federal Office of Public Health, c/o Institute of
Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Professor P. Shubik, Senior Research Fellow Green College Oxford,
United Kingdom (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr G.J.A. Speijers, Head, Section on Public Health, Centre for
Substances and Risk Assessment, National Institute of Public Health
and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Ms E. Vavasour, Chemical Health Hazard Assessment Division, Bureau of
Chemical Safety, Food Directorate, Health Protection Branch, Health
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr D.B. Whitehouse, Bowdon, Cheshire, United Kingdom (FAO
Consultant)
Dr C. Whiteside, Division of Health Effects Evaluation, Office of
Pre-Market Approval, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition,
Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, United States (WHO
Temporary Adviser)