Lecture 13 - Food Additive Safety Assessment
Learning Objectives
- Understand the background and principles of safety assessment of food additives.
- Review the quantitative assessment of dietary exposure to food additives and the development of concern levels.
- Explore the basics of testing related to food additive safety.
- Explore the relationship between food type & food packaging in food additive safety assessment.
- Understand the interaction of the Delaney Clause and food additive regulation.
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Advance Reading
- Problem Foods: Is it an Allergy or Intolerance? Cleveland Clinic
- Celiac Disease Celiac Disease Foundation (skim)
- Milk Allergies Cleveland Clinic
- Sulfite Sensitivity Cleveland Clinic
- Favism G6PD Deficiency Association
Suggested Reading
- Food Additives and Ingredients Association
- Center for Science in the Public Interest Guide to Food Additives
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What’s Really in Your Food
Surprising facts about additives you should know Consumer Reports-SmartShop, 2012
Resources
Keywords
- Food additive
- Food color additive
- Codex Alimentarius
- Direct food additives
- Certified color additives
- Exempt color additives
- Unintentional additives
- GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe)
- Regulated food additive
- Contaminant tolerance
- Contaminant action level
- Unintentional food additive
- FDA Red Book
- Reference Dose (RfD)
- Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI)
- Estimated daily intake
- Food Safety Concern Level (CL)
- Consumption factor (CF)
- Food type (fT)
- De Minimis concept
- Secondary carcinogenesis
- Delaney clause
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