The Committee assessed the safety of four food additives (butterfly pea flower extract, natamycin A, nisin, and polyglycerol esters of fatty acids) four processing aids (enzymes) and revised the specifications for 10 flavouring agents.
The assessments, recommendations and comments by the Committee will be discussed by the Codex Committee on Food Additives to generate recommendations to national authorities on risk-management and risk-mitigation measures to reduce human exposure. WHO will publish detailed monographs in the WHO Food Additives Series with the toxicological and other related information on which the safety assessments of the compounds were based. FAO publishes summaries of the identity and purity of food additives.