(6)Pursuant to Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000, substances that are contained in the register and have already been classified by the Scientific Committee on Food (hereinafter referred to as ‘SCF’) in Category 1 6 or by the Council of Europe in Category A 7 or by Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (hereinafter referred to as ‘JECFA’), so as to present no safety concern, as laid down in the reports of its 46th, 49th, 51st and 53rd meeting 8 , need not be re-evaluated within the evaluation programme. These substances should be included in the list referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2232/96.
Recital 6
- 6 Annex 6 to the minutes of the 98th meeting of the Scientific Committee on Food, 21 and 22 September 1995. ↩
- 8 Evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants. 46th Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, WHO Technical Report Series No. 868, 1997. ↩
- 7 Flavouring substances and natural sources of flavourings, Volume I, Chemically-defined flavouring substances , Fourth Edition. Council of Europe, Partial agreement in the social and public health field , Strasbourg, 1992, including its subsequent loose-leaf modifications until year 1999. ↩