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Food Additives

The goals of those projects are to:

gather data on food additives so that it can be used in conjunction with other Open Food Facts data
determine what food additives data should be displayed on Open Food Facts product pages
create information pages for each food additive
possibly classify the risk of each additive so that it can be shown on Open Food Facts
- currently done for some additives on Open Food Facts in French language: http://fr.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Projet:Fiches_sur_les_additifs

Sources of the additive
- Natural extract / chemical synthesis
- Vegetarian, vegan
- Containing pork
How is the additive produced?
Religious certifications
- Casher
- Halal

For each source, we should note under which licence the data is available.

Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA)

Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives

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 === Laws and regulations ===
+==== WHO / FAO ====
+Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA)
+http://www.codexalimentarius.org/standards/gsfa/
 ==== European Union ====
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 Consolidated: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008R1333-20141106
 === Scientific studies ===