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 and uses which are no longer needed shall not be entered in Annex III.

• Food additives and processing aids do not need to be labeled unless the introduced genetic material is present in the final food.

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

• Food additives in Annex III shall be listed on the basis of the food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients or categories thereof to which they may be added.

• Food additives in Annex II shall be listed on the basis of the categories of food to which they may be added.

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

• Food additives shall comply with the specifications as referred to in Article 14.

• Food additives which were permitted before 20 January 2009 shall be subject to a new risk assessment carried out by the Authority.

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

• Food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer, whether sold singly or mixed with each other and/or with food ingredients, as defined in Article 6(4) of Directive 2000/13/EC, may only be marketed with the labelling provided for in Article 22 of this Regulation, which must be easily visible, clearly legible and indelible.

More Definitions of Food additives

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 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 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 any substance, the intended use of which results or may reasonably be

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 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);