Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives; published by FAO · Codex Alimentarius

What a substance must be to count as the additive, in JECFA's own terms: definition, assay, identification and purity. Advisory until a country adopts it.

A JECFA specification is advisory: it binds nobody until a country adopts it. The committee's intake conclusions are recorded separately — see where the two committees differ.

How it is arranged

  • One monograph per substance, revised when JECFA revisits it, each carrying the meeting and year of its last revision.

What this site takes from it

Every monograph that matches a page here, with its fields, shown apart from the EU's specification for the same substance.

And what it does not

Nothing material from the monographs. JECFA's acceptable daily intakes are held too, but they come from a separate WHO database rather than from this compendium.

Provenance

  • jecfaspecs Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications (JECFA), online edition — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAO terms of use — non-commercial use with acknowledgement of FAO and WHO; retrieved 2026-09-23.

Recorded on Sources, generated from the provenance table so it cannot drift from what the site holds.

Read the instrument. Where a page here disagrees with it, the instrument is right and this site is wrong — check the retrieval date first.

Also for Codex Alimentarius: CXS 192-1995, JECFA evaluations.