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General Standard for Food Additives - Norme générale pour les additifs alimentaires - Norma general para los aditivos alimentarios. GFSA 2008. Codex A

The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" (GSFA, Codex STAN 192-1995) sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have previously been standardized by Codex. This database provides, in a searchable format, all the provisions for food additives that have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Provisions are ...

By Earthprint Ltd
General Standard for Food Additives - Norme générale pour les additifs alimentaires - Norma general para los aditivos alimentarios. GFSA 2009. Codex A

The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods. This database provides, in a searchable format, all the provisions for food additives that have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Provisions are searchable by food additive (name, synonym, INS number), by functional class and by food category. - ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Livestock keepers. Guardians of biodiversity

FAO Animal Production and Health Papers # 167Smallholder farmers and pastoralists fulfill an invaluable yet undervalued role in conserving biodiversity. They act as guardians of locally adapted livestock breeds that can make use of even marginal environments under tough climatic conditions and therefore are a crucial resource for food security. But in addition, by sustaining animals on natural ...

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Residue evaluation of certain veterinary drugs. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives - 70th Meeting 2008

FAO JECFA MonographsAt this session, three substances were evaluated for the first time for the animal species concerned, avilamycin, monensin and narasin. Four substances were reassessed, dexamethasone, tilmicosin, triclabendazole and tylosin. The residue monographs provide information on chemical identity and properties of the compounds, pharmacokinetics and metabolism, residue depletion ...

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Preparation of African swine fever contingency plans

FAO Animal Production and Health Manuals # 8African swine fever (ASF) is a viral haemorrhagic disease of swine generally characterized by high morbidity and high mortality. The disease is known to have devastated swine farming in highly industrialized, small commercial and backyard swine holdings, with concomitant closure of animal and meat export markets, ravaged swine populations, and destroyed ...

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General Standard for Food Additives - Norme générale pour les additifs alimentaires - Norma general para los aditivos alimentarios. GFSA 2007. Codex A

GSFA on CD-ROM provides users with a simple tool to access rapidly current information contained in the Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA). Its powerful but simple search engine allows users to retrieve the required information. GSFA contains 1436 food additives provisions and covers 295 food additives. - GSFA sur CD-ROM donne aux utilisateurs le moyen d'accéder rapidement à des ...

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General Standard for Food Additives - Norme générale pour les additifs alimentaires - Norma general para los aditivos alimentarios. GFSA 2006. Codex A

The "General Standard for Food Additives" (GFSA) (Codex STAN 192-1995) sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have previously been standarized by Codex. This database provides, in a searchable format, all the provisions for food additives that have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It contains 1112 food ...

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Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law (English)

Series: FAO Legislative StudiesThe increasing globalization of food trade and the harmonization of food standards and food safety rules have led to significant changes in the international and national regulatory frameworks for food. There is an increasing recognition of the need to integrate and improve coordination of regulatory activities among national and international bodies for better ...

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Compendium of food additive specifications. Addendum 13 - vol Add.13 (English)

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersThis document is one of three publications prepared by the sixty-fifth session of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2005. This meeting was dedicated to the evaluation of food additives including flavouring agents. Specifications of food additives in this document provide information on their ...

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Compendium of food additive specifications. Addendum 12 - part Add.12 (En)

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersThis document is one of three publications prepared by the sixty-third session of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2004, and dedicated to the evaluation of food additives. The report of the meeting will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series and the toxicological monographs in the WHO ...

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Residues of some veterinary drugs in animals and foods. Cefuroxime, Cypermethrin, alpha-Cypermethrin, Doramectin, Lincomycin, Melengestrol acetate, Pi

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersThis document is one of three publications prepared by the sixty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, held in Rome in February 2004, and dedicated exclusively to the evaluation of veterinary drug residues in food. The residue monographs in this document provide information on chemical identity, properties, use, ...

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Compendium of food additive specifications. Addendum 11 - part Add.11 (En)

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersSpecifications of certain food additives in this document provide information on their identity and purity. The three main objectives of these specifications are to identify the substance that has been subject to biological testing, to ensure that the substance is of the quality required for safe use in food and to reflect and encourage good manufacturing ...

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Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global Market

Everyone, everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Encouraged by food processing innovations, cheap oil, and subsidies, since 1961 the value of global trade in food has tripled and the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate, as much as ...

By Worldwatch Institute
Bread wheat: improvement and production (En)

Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection SeriesWheat is the most widely grown cereal crop in the world, with an ever increasing demand. It plays a fundamental role in food security, and a major challenge is to meet the additional requirements with new cultivars and improved cropping technologies. This book provides extensive information from a number of international experts on the current ...

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Manual on procedures for disease eradication by stamping out (En)

Series: FAO Animal Health ManualsWhen a transboundary animal disease invades a country or an area that is normally free, it is important to take all measures to eliminate infection rapidly before it establishes itself and evolves into a major epidemic and/or becomes endemic. Stamping out is often the most cost-effective way of doing this. Stamping out is a set of coordinated measures for the ...

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Manual on the preparation of african swine fever contigency plans (En)

Series: FAO Animal Health ManualsAfrican swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a mortality rate close to 100 percent. There is no vaccine and no conventional treatment against the disease. To reduce the effects caused by ASF outbreaks, optimal response mechanisms against probable ASF emergency disease situations need to be planned and rehearsed so that the disease can be controlled and eradicated ...

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Recognizing African swine fever. A field manual. (En)

Series: FAO Animal Health ManualAfrican swine fever (ASF) is endemic in some parts of eastern and southern Africa. The introduction of ASF into free areas leads to losses because of the devastating effects it causes. In order to minimize these losses, it is essential that there is a strong early warning and early reaction capacity. The key to such a system is disease recognition. The purpose of ...

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Compendium of food additive specifications. Addendum 8 - part Add.8 (En)

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersThis document is one of the three publications prepared by the fifty-fifth session of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2000, and dedicated to the evaluation of food additives and contaminants in food. The report of the meeting will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series and the ...

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Residues of some veterinary drugs in animals and foods. Cyhalothrin, Cypermethrin, Dicyclanil, Flumequine, Ivermectin, Lincomycin, Melengestrol acetat

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersThis document is one of three publications prepared by the fifty-fourth session of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, in February 2000, and dedicated exclusively to the evaluation of veterinary drug residues in food. The report of the meeting will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series and the toxicological ...

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Cleaner Production Assessment in Meat Processing

A guide to the application of Cleaner Production to the meat processing industry, with a focus on the slaughtering of cattle and pigs at abattoirs. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of meat processing, and to highlight approaches that industry and government can take to avoid or minimise these impacts by adopting a Cleaner Production ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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