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Check these sites for recent changes in flavour legislation:

 Antioxidants

Artifical colours

Artificial Flavourings list

Australian Flavour Regulations  

Caramel colours 2 

CFR Code of Federal Regulation         

Deceptive labels?

Diacetyl leglislation   Calls to regulate butter flavour …...diacetyl!

E Numbers and what they mean

EU Flavour regulations

FDA   

FEMA

FEMA numbers The good Scents Co.

FEMA Respiratory Health and Safety

Flavour agents Japan

Flavour compounding safety

Food Additives another link

Food Additives apprasial

Food Additives Australia and New Zealand

Food Additives colours

Food additives database (USA) 

Food Additives  CSPI’s Food Safety

Food and flavour intolerance

Guidelines for the use of flavourings

IFRA (fragrance site)

IOFI   International Organization of the Flavour Industry

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

MSDS a good source of information

NAFFS

P&F News RSS feed

Tobacco additives



There are three principal types of flavorings used in foods, under definitions agreed in the E.U. and Australia: It appers there is now a change so click on link below.

Change in definitation October 2010

• Natural flavouring substances: Flavouring substances obtained from plant or animal raw materials, by physical, microbiological or enzymatic processes. They can be either used in their natural state or processed for human consumption, but cannot contain any nature-identical or artificial flavouring substances.
• Nature-identical flavouring substances: Flavouring substances that are obtained by synthesis or isolated through chemical processes, which are chemically identical to flavouring substances naturally present in products intended for human consumption. They cannot contain any artificial flavouring substances.
• Artificial flavouring substances: Flavouring substances not identified in a natural product intended for human consumption, whether or not the product is processed.

Summary of Evaluations Performed by the
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
(JECFA 1956-2005)
(First through Sixty-fifth Meetings)