Scientific Committee on Food Free

Scientific Committee on Food

This group meets on a quarterly basis. The general agenda for each meeting is posted to the following URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/agenda_en.html

Since the previous reviews of EU matters, the Committee met as follows; for each date the principal opinions that were finalised are listed below:

• 1.

  December 1999:

• 2.

  • monomers and additives for food contact materials;

  • manitol manufactured by fermentation;

  • malitol syrup;

  • synthetic lycopene as a colouring;

  • imazalil for use in cheese coatings;

  • programme for the evaluation of flavourings; and

  • fusarium toxins.

• 3.

  March 2000:

• 4.

  • acesulfame K;

  • cyclamic acid and its sodium and calcium salts;

  • nuts from the ngali tree; and

  • patulin.

• 5.

  June 2000:

• 6.

  • fusarium toxins;

  • foods for atheletes;

  • Listeria monocytogenes;

  • additives and monomers for food contact materials;

  • -carotene from Blakeslea trispora;

  • -cylodextrins; and

  • pytoesterol esters in yellow fat spreads.

The general SCF page can be accessed at the following URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/outcome_en.html#opinions

Each of the topics listed above has a "hot-link" from the above site that allows access to the full text of the opinion.

Minutes of the SCF can be found at the following URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/outcome_en.html#minutes

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Dr Stephen FallowsUniversity of Luton