JECFA. Evaluating the safety of food additives.

JECFA is an international scientific expert committee administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and WHO.
It has been meeting since 1956, to evaluate the safety of food additives, contaminants, naturally occurring toxicants and residues of veterinary drugs in food.
JECFA serves as an independent scientific expert committee which performs risk assessments and provides advice to FAO, WHO and the member countries of both organizations, as well as to the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC).
JECFA Members are prominent scientists from across the world, of recognised scientific excellence with competences spreading across disciplines within JECFA remit:
Risk assessment practice - human health risk assessment, food consumption and exposure assessment, toxicology, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, life sciences.
Cross-cutting scientific issues - statistical approaches in risk assessment, the preparation of guidance for risk assessment in the area of food and feed.
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[@ramyas99]

Very useful vedio

[@azizaelkadiri7272]

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[@funnygirl4advice]

I am worried about all the lack of nutrients due to the SAFETY processes.. smh

[@karencondison3140]

So the one example that they use as a food additive is ascorbic acid ( vitamin C ) for a peservative...I don't know about you but that's not what I'm worried about..I'm not worried about vitamin C as an additive. As one example in hundreds of things added to food..sodium benzoate...a carcinogen , is in all kinds of foods, ( oh but they will say only if the benzene ring is exposed to acid , only then does it become carcinogenic )..oh..so what happens when you eat it and it's in your stomach acid ? Well , it's perfectly safe until you eat it, so the producer can't be said to be making an unsafe product...as it is, on the shelf, it is not carcinogenic, it's only if you eat it that it becomes carcinogenic..so it's not their fault. Food production companies have a hold on government officials and also apparently on the those making videos like this...it's a lot of blah blah blah and not really saying anything relevant to what is actually in our food, things that I can find in all kinds of foodstuffs off the shelf , right now if I go to the grocery store.

[@stuartworgan2458]

So you own research remember money talks hence Coca Cola is still in circulation..........food for thought!