Food additives definition

Food additives means any substance not usually consumed as food by itself but used as an ingredient of that food, whether or not it has nutritive value;
Food additives means substances to be used in or on food, in the process of the manufacturing of food or for the purpose of the processing or preserving of food, by adding, mixing, infiltrating, or other means.
Food additives means substances added to a food during manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging or transport for technological purposes or functions or for producing actual or possible effects on food.

Examples of Food additives in a sentence

  • Food additives shall not be used in unprocessed foods, except where such use is specifically provided for in Annex II.

  • Food additives are specified as specifically-controlled food of which the quality or standards are defined.

  • Food additives shall not be used in foods for infants and young children as referred to in Directive 89/398/EEC, including dietary foods for infants and young children for special medical purposes, except where specifically provided for in Annex II to this Regulation.

  • Food additives should always be used in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

  • Food additives are described as chemical substances which are intentionally added to food in order to serve specified technological functions.


More Definitions of Food additives

Food additives means any substance not normally consumed as food by itself and not normally used as a typical ingredient of the food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological (including organoleptic) purpose in the manufacturing, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport for holding of such food results, or maybe reasonably expected to result (directly or indirectly) in its or its by – product becoming a component of (or otherwise affecting the characteristic of) such food.
Food additives means any substance, the intended use of which results or may reasonably be
Food additives means any substances which, although normally are not treated as food or components thereof, are added for technological purposes to food during its handling, and at the end of handling process either themselves or their components become - or it is likely that they would become - a component of food. Food additives shall be marked with the letter E followed by the three-digit or four-digit code which indicates their registration number in the European Union;
Food additives means any substances which, although usually not considered food or any part of it, are nevertheless put into the food for the technological purposes during food handling and which themselves or their components eventually become or presumably become an integral part of food.
Food additives means food additives as defined in Article 3(2)(a) in conjunction with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives [(OJ 2008 L 354, p. 16)], last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 298/2014 of 21 March 2014 [(OJ 2014 L 89, p. 36)]. Additives include:
Food additives means substances which not being foodstuffs or their components, are specially added to food during technological process, in order to achieve desired sense or other technological qualities (Combined Nomenclature codes ex21.06; 3302.10);
Food additives means any substance, the intended use of which results or may reasonably be expected to result directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component or other wise affecting the characteristics of any food (including any substance intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting or holding food; and including any source of radiation intended for any such use), if such substance is not generally recognized, among experts qualified as having been adequately shown through scientific procedures to be safe under the conditions of the intended use.