Essential Guide to Food Additives is a highly useful ready reference for a wide range of professionals in the food and drink industry.

The principal change in the second edition is the addition of additives that were not permitted for use at the time of publication of the first edition, removal of additives that are no longer permitted for use, and a thorough check and update of the legislation relating to additives.

Essential Guide to Food Additives answers questions on why additives are used in prepared foods, and covers the technical aspects, benefits and limitations of individual additives.

In addition to a numerical listing of all currently approved food additives in the EU, the book contains chapters on the approval process that additives have to go through before being permitted, the information that has to be provided on the label of a food product, and a summary of similar legislation from around the world.

Contents

Food Additives and Why They Are Used

• What are food additives and why are they used?
• Safety of additives
• Intolerance
• Myths and fallacies

What Should be Declared on the Label

• Food Safety Act 1990
• Trade Descriptions Act 1968
• Weights and Measures Act 1985
• Food (lot marking) Regulations 1996
• Food Labelling Regulations 1996
• Food Additive Labelling Regulations 1992
• Flavourings in food Regulations 1992
• Colours in Food Regulations 1995
• Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995
• Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995
• Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993
• The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods Regulations 2000

Safety of Food Additives in Europe

• European directives
• Safety testing and evaluation of food additives
• Comparing intakes with ADIs

Legislation for Food Additives Outside Europe

• Codex Alimentarius
• Food additives legislation in other countries

Additives

Index

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