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Evaluation of Certain Food Additives Report 1014, 2019
Health Risk Environment
Food and Nutrition
Description
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) met in Geneva from 12 to 21 June 2018. The meeting was opened by Dr Kazuaki Miyagishima, Director of the Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses of the World Health Organization (WHO), on behalf of WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Dr Miyagishima reported that the 2018 World Health Assembly adopted the general programme of work for 2019-2023, and that Codex continues to be a high priority.