November 16, 2023 - La OMS, en cooperación con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), evalúa los riesgos para la salud humana de los aditivos alimentarios

Food Additive Functional Classes · The food additive functional classes are based on the Codex Class Names and the International Numbering System (INS) for Food Additives (CAC/GL 36-1989)

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JECFA: The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) is an international expert scientific committee that is administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

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A second reason is to add nutrients ... in food, a process known as fortification. In this case, the amount of nutrient added may be higher than that present before processing. Fortification also standardizes the contents of nutrients that show variable concentrations. A typical example is the addition of vitamin ...

The Consultation stressed the need to take an holistic approach to food fortification, and hence emphasised many supporting activities which would facilitate efficacious fortification. Considerations beyond the methodologies employed in the addition of micronutrients to foods influence to a ...

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November 25, 2006 - The guidelines are written from nutrition and public health perspective, to provide practical guidance on how food fortification should be implemented, monitored and evaluated. They are primarily intended for nutrition-related public health programme managers, but should also be useful to all ...

The term “food fortification” is defined as “the addition of one or more essential nutrients to a food whether or not it is normally contained in the food, for the purpose of preventing or correcting a demonstrated deficiency of one or more nutrients in the population or specific population ...

Resources for consumption monitoring ... expenditure surveys analyzed for fortified food apparent intake (Fiedler et al., 2008)) or by integrating consumption-monitoring questions into existing data collection systems (e.g., addition of fortified food apparent consumption questions ...