Standard definition of food additives

Release time:Jan 20,2022


The definition of food additives varies among countries around the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly define food additives as non nutritional substances that are consciously and generally added in small amounts to improve the appearance, flavor, tissue structure, or storage properties of food.

The definition of food additives varies among countries around the world. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly define food additives as non nutritional substances that are consciously and generally added in small amounts to improve the appearance, flavor, tissue structure, or storage properties of food. According to this definition, food fortifiers aimed at enhancing the nutritional content of food should not be included in the scope of food additives.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Joint Committee on Food Regulation: Food additives are non nutritional substances that are consciously and generally added in small amounts to improve the appearance, flavor, tissue structure, or storage properties of food. EU: Food additives refer to any substance artificially added to food for technical purposes during the production, processing, preparation, processing, packaging, transportation, or storage of food. Food additives refer to substances intentionally used that cause or expect to cause them to directly or indirectly become food ingredients or affect food characteristics According to Article 54 of the Food Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China and Article 28 of the Food Additive Hygiene Management Measures, as well as Article 2 of the Food Nutrient Fortifier Hygiene Management Measures and Article 99 of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, food additives are defined as: food additives refer to artificially synthesized substances added to food to improve its quality, color, aroma, and taste, as well as to meet the needs of preservation, preservation, and processing technology.
According to GB 2760-2014 "National Food Safety Standard for the Use of Food Additives", food additives are defined as "artificially synthesized substances added to food for the purpose of improving food quality, color, aroma, and taste, as well as for the needs of preservation, preservation, and processing technology. Flavors used in food, basic agent substances in gum sugar fruits, and processing aids used in the food industry are also included.".
Characteristic food additives have the following three characteristics: firstly, they are substances added to food, therefore, they are generally not consumed separately as food; Secondly, it includes both artificially synthesized substances; The purpose of adding it to food is to improve food quality, color, aroma, taste, and meet the needs of preservation, preservation, and processing technology!
Distinguishing between food additives ≠ illegal additives. When the public talks about food additives, the main reason is that they confuse the concepts of illegal additives and food additives. It is obviously unfair to attribute the blame of some illegal additives to food additives. The Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Strictly Cracking down on the Illegal Addition of Food and Effectively Strengthening the Supervision of Food Additives requires the standardization of the production and use of food additives: it is strictly prohibited to use non edible substances to produce compound food additives, and it is not allowed to purchase food additives with non-standard labeling and unclear sources. It is also necessary to strictly investigate and deal with the abuse of food additives beyond the scope and limit, and to formulate and publish the general safety standards and food additive labeling standards for compound food additives by the end of 2011. What needs to be severely cracked down on is the illegal addition of food, and what urgently needs to be standardized is the production of food additives