Food Additives and Flavourings
The Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF)* evaluates the safety of chemical substances added to food and consumer exposure to them. The Panel's work mainly concerns substances evaluated by EFSA before their use can be authorised in the EU.
FAF Panel Members are scientists from across Europe with expertise in:
- Chemical risk assessment and safety assessment of food additives and flavouring substances
- Toxicology (mammalian): sub-chronic and chronic toxicity (repeated dose studies), genotoxicity and mutagenicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity, allergenicity and immunotoxicity
- Toxicity testing in experimental animals and alternative toxicity testing
- Toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics (ADME - absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) of substances
- Chemistry (organic, inorganic, analytical and synthetic chemistry), especially for the chemical identification and specification of chemical substances
- Exposure assessment and consumption surveys
- Food technology (manufacturing processes and use of food additives)
*The FAF Panel continues the work in most of the areas previously covered by the former Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources Added to Food (ANS). In addition, it has taken over responsibility for the evaluation of flavourings from the former CEF Panel while handing over responsibility for the evaluation of nutrient sources to the NDA Panel.
Panel members
Plenary meetings
Working groups
Flavourings - FAF Panel
Food Additives Applications - FAF Panel
Re-evaluation of miscellaneous food additives - FAF Panel
Specifications of Food Additives - FAF Panel
Sweeteners - FAF Panel
WG Follow-up Tox - FAF Panel
WG on the re-evaluation of food additives permitted in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age - FAF Panel
Closed working groups
Allura Red - ANS Panel
Application 2017-2018 - ANS Panel
Aspartame - ANS Panel
Assessment of carcinogenicity of sucralose - ANS Panel
Botanicals in food
Chemistry and Specifications - ANS Panel
ESCO Isoflavones
Exposure assessment - ANS Panel
Food additives and nutrient sources 2008-2011 - ANS Panel
Food additives and nutrient sources 2011-2014 - ANS Panel (Working Group A)
Food additives and nutrient sources 2011-2014 - ANS Panel (Working Group B)
Genotox ad hoc - CEF Panel
Genotoxicity 2017-2018 - CEF Panel
Guidance on food additives - ANS Panel
Guidance on Nutrient Sources - ANS Panel
Isoflavones - ANS Panel
Phosphates - ANS Panel
Phosphates - FAF Panel
Procedures under Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 (Standing WG) - ANS Panel
Ramazzini Institute study on aspartame in mice and methanol - ANS Panel
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