Food Standards

• To monitor, review, report and advise on labelling principles and options as well as on the correct use of dairy terms within the framework of the Codex General Standard for Use of Dairy Terms;
• To assist Codex in adopting technically correct and feasible Codex texts based upon international consensus;
• To pursue through the monitoring of the activities of the CCFL and the CCNFSDU and other relevant international organizations insofar as they affect the use of dairy terms and the labelling of dairy products and substitutes to dairy products;
• To prepare IDF reports, statements, position papers, proposals, etc. including submissions of technical or scientific advice to the CCFL and the CCNFSDU, in consultation with other relevant IDF Standing Committees as appropriate, in particular the Standing Committees on Standards of Identity, Nutrition and Health, and Marketing;
• To adequately monitor, on behalf of IDF, the labelling related work of the CCFL and the CCNFSDU (and related matters discussed at and referred from CCNFSDU to CCFL) and to provide advice on any implications for the work of other IDF Standing Committees.

• To monitor, review, report and advise on regulation of the use of food and animal feed additives, processing aids, carriers, flavors and colors;
• To assist Codex in adopting technically correct and feasible Codex standards, codes, and guidelines on food and animal feed additives, processing aids, carriers, flavors and colors, based upon international consensus;
• To collect and present data on risk assessments of additives, processing aids, carriers, flavors and colors;
• To assist in developing consensus positions for the use of additives, including processing aids, carriers, flavors and colors through the monitoring and involvement in the activities of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), the CCFA, the CAC and other relevant national and international organizations;
• To represent member interests from an industry perspective on international food additive issues and represent their views in preparing IDF reports, statements, position papers, proposals, surveys, etc. including submission of technical advice to the CCFA, the JECFA and other relevant Codex bodies, in consultation with other IDF Standing Committees as appropriate, in particular the Standing Committees on Standards of Identity, and Food Labelling and Terminology;
• To adequately monitor, on behalf of IDF, the additive work of the JECFA and the CCFA in so far as it affects additives, processing aids, carriers, flavors and colors and for providing advice on any implications for the work of other IDF SC.

Factsheet: food additives
What are food additives ? Why are food additives used ? ... and more information on safety of food additives in this fact sheet prepared by the IDF Standing Committee on Food Additives.

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• To elaborate definitions and standards of identity for milk products and other foods of interest to the dairy sector;
• To assist Codex and other bodies as necessary in adopting technically correct and feasible standards of identity as referred to in a) based on international consensus:
• To pursue the development of draft standards and related texts for submission to the CCMMP and other Codex committees as relevant;
• To monitor the activities of the CCMMP, other Codex committees including those involved in the endorsement and/or adoption of standards of identity for foods;
• To consider government comments and other questions relating to the regulation of dairy and other food standards of interest to the dairy sector;
• To prepare IDF reports, statements, position papers, proposals, etc. including submission of technical advice to the CCMMP, other Codex committees, and other bodies as necessary.