JECFA meetings, which have been held on a regular basis since 1956, generally result in three separate publications: a concise report of all the main conclusions reached during the meeting, a set of detailed toxicological monographs for the substances evaluated, and a volume recording specifications for the purity and identity of food additives or residue monographs on veterinary drugs.

Many of these documents are available on-line. Most of the reports are available in PDF. Toxicological monographs are available on INCHEM (www.inchem.org) and specifications are available at http://www.fao.org/ag/agn/agns/jecfa_archive_en.asp. Annex 1 of this summary lists the reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of JECFA and provides links to the documents that are available on-line.
 

Reports: The WHO Technical Report Series

With two early exceptions, all reports of JECFA meetings have been published as volumes in the WHO Technical Report Series. The sole exceptions are the reports of the 3rd and 4th meetings, which were published by FAO.

Publisher: World Health Organization

 

Toxicological monographs: The WHO Food Additives Series

Toxicological monographs, which record the data evaluated when establishing ADIs and other endpoints, have the following publishing history:

Sixth and seventh meetings
 

Included in the report (WHO Technical Report Series)
 

Eighth to fourteenth meetings
 

Published by FAO
 

Fifteenth to nineteenth meetings (inauguration of WHO Food Additives Series)
 

Published as Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8 in the WHO Food Additives Series; distributed by WHO
 

Twentieth to twenty-eighth meetings
 

Published as Nos. 10 and 12-19 in the WHO Food Additives Series; distributed by the International Programme on Chemical Safety
 

Twenty-ninth to thirty-third meetings
 

Published as Nos. 20_24 in WHO Food Additives Series; distributed by Cambridge University Press
 

Thirty-fourth meeting onwards
 

Published as Nos. 25 and up in WHO Food Additives Series; distributed by WHO

Specifications and residues monographs: The FAO Food and Nutrition Paper Series

Specifications for the identity and purity of food additives and residue monographs have been published as follows:

Third, fourth, seventh, ninth, and tenth meetings
 

Included in the report (WHO Technical Report Series); distributed by WHO
 

Eighth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth meetings
 

Published by FAO; distributed by FAO
 

Fifteenth meeting
 

Published as No. 2 in the WHO Food Additives Series; distributed by WHO
 

Eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth meetings
 

Published as Nos. 9 and 11 in WHO Food Additives Series; distributed by FAO
 

Seventeenth and twenty-first meeting to sixty-fifth meeting
 

Published as volumes in the FAO Food and Nutrition Paper Series; distributed by FAO. The user should take into account that specifications published in Food and Nutrition Paper Series No. 52 supercede all previously published specifications.
 

Sixty-sixth meeting onwards
 

Published as volumes in the new FAO JECFA Monographs series; distributed by FAO.

The user should take into account that volumes 1 - 3 of the FAO JECFA Monographs 1 replace the existing additions and revisions made since 1992, up to and including those contained in FNP 52 Addendum 13. Volume 4 of this first Monographs replaces the previous FNP 5 and provides a reference for analytical methods and test procedures used in, and referenced by the specifications.

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