INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON CHEMICAL SAFETY

    WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION



    TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF CERTAIN
    FOOD ADDITIVES



    WHO FOOD ADDITIVES SERIES 14





    Geneva, 2-11 April 1979




         The International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS),
    established in 1980, is a joint venture of the United Nations
    Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Labour Organisation
    (ILO), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall objectives
    of the IPCS are to establish the scientific basis for assessment of
    the risk to human health and the environment from exposure to
    chemicals, through international peer-review processes, as a
    prerequisite for the assistance in strengthening national capacities
    for the sound management of chemicals.

         The Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of
    Chemicals (IOMC) was established in 1995 by UNEP, ILO, the Food and
    Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, WHO, the United
    Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Organisation for
    Economic Co-operation and Development (Participating Organizations),
    following recommendations made by the 1992 UN Conference on
    Environment and Development to strengthen cooperation and increase
    coordination of the policies and activities pursued by the
    Participating Organizations, jointly or separately, to achieve the
    sound management of chemicals in relation to human health and the
    environment.

    WHO Food Additives Series, 1979, No. 14

    TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD ADDITIVES

    The evaluations contained in this document
    were prepared by the Joint FAO/WHO
    Expert Committee on Food Additives1

    Geneva, 2-11 April 1979

              

    1    Twenty-third Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food
         Additives, Geneva, Wld Hlth Org. techn. Rep. Ser., 1980, No. 648.

    CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    THE MONOGRAPHS

         Trans-Anethole
         Butane-1,3-diol
         d-Carvone and 1-carvone
         Castor oil
         Chloroform
         Cinnamaldehyde
         Estragole
         Ethyl formate
         Ethyl lactate
         Eugenol
         alpha-Ionone
         ß-Ionone
         Methyl anthranilate
         Methyl chloride
         Methyl-N-Methylanthranilate
         Nonanal
         Octanal
         Polyethylene glycols
         Red 2G
         Triethyl citrate
    

    INTRODUCTION

         The monographs contained in this document have been prepared by
    the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives in Geneva from
    2-11 April 1979.

         Any new information and comments on the biological and
    toxicological data should be addressed to: Division of Environmental
    Health, Environmental Health Criteria and Standards (Food Safety),
    World Health Organization, Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations