INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON CHEMICAL SAFETY
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
SAFETY EVALUATION OF CERTAIN FOOD
ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS
WHO FOOD ADDITIVES SERIES: 44
Prepared by the Fifty-third meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO
Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
World Health Organization, Geneva, 2000
IPCS - International Programme on Chemical Safety
ANNEX 3
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
Rome, 1-10 June 1999
Members
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 ( 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)
Dr G. Pascal, Scientific Director for Human Nutrition and Food Safety,
National Institute for Agricultural Research, Paris, France
Mrs M. Riordan, Team Leader (Food Standards), Food and Nutrition
Section, Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand
Professor R. Walker, Emeritus Professor of Food Science, School of
Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United
Kingdom ( Joint Vice-Chairman)
Dr J.D. Wilson, 10021 Springwood Drive, St Louis, Missouri, United
States
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 D.C. Bellinger, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical
School, Children's Hospital Neuroepidemiology Unit, Boston,
Massachusetts, United States ( WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr M. Bolger, Contaminants Branch, Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, United States
( WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr C. Carrington, Contaminants Branch, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, United
States ( WHO Temporary Adviser)
Dr E. Dewailly, Director, Centre de Santé Publique du Quebec,
Environmental Health Service, Beauport, Quebec, Canada ( WHO
Temporary Adviser)
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, Joint Rapporteur)
Mr G.S. Eriksen, Institutionen for husdjurens utfodring och vård,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Animal
Nutrition and Management, Ulltuna, Uppsala, Sweden ( WHO Temporary
Adviser)
Dr J. Greig, Joint Food Safety and Standards Group, Department of
Health, London, United Kingdom ( 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 J.H. Hotchkiss, Professor, Department of Food Science, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, United States ( FAO Consultant)
Dr M. Jermini, Food Safety Scientist, World Health Organization,
European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome, Italy
Dr C. Madsen, Institute of Food Safety and Toxicology, Danish
Veterinary and Food Administration, Soborg, Denmark ( WHO Temporary
Adviser)
Dr L.P.A. Magos, Wallington, Surrey, United Kingdom ( 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)
Mr N. Nakashima, International Programme on Chemical Safety, World
Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr A. Nishikawa, Division of Pathology, Biological Safety Research
Center, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan ( WHO
Temporary Adviser)
Dr J.A. Pennington, National Institutes of Health, Division of
Nutrition Research Co-ordination, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
( FAO Consultant)
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)
Dr S. Resnik, Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departmento de Industrias,
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Ciudad Universitaria,
Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina ( FAO Consultant)
Dr J. Schlatter, Federal Office of Public Health, c/o Institute of
Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich, Zürich,
Switzerland ( WHO Temporary Adviser)
Professor G.I. Sipes, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology,
College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
( 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 P.J.P. Verger, Head, Observatory of Food Consumption, Paris, France
( FAO Consultant)
Dr R. Vilu, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Tallinn Technical
University, Tallinn, Estonia ( FAO Consultant)
Mrs H. Wallin, National Food Administration, Helsinki, Finland ( FAO
Consultant)
Mr J. Weatherwax, Food Quality and Standards Service, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy ( FAO
Joint Secretary)
Dr D.B. Whitehouse, Bowdon, Cheshire, United Kingdom ( FAO
Consultant)
Unable to attend: Ms J. Baines, Senior Nutritionist, Australian New
Zealand Food Authority, Canberra, Australia
See Also:
Toxicological Abbreviations