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http://allergies.about.com/od/additives/
About health & fitness has links to food additives and additive sensitivity.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/additive.htm

Additives in Meat and Poultry Products is a USDA publication placed on-line.

http://www.answers.com/topic/food-additive
Answers.com is an encyclopedia with information on additives.
http://botw.org/top/Society/Issues/Health/Food,_Drink,_and_Nutrition/Food_Additives/
Best of the Web has addive and genetically modified food information.

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article.php?id=90
Cooking For Engineers has ads, and listing of varisous additives and their description, side effects and common uses. Has an ability to input request for further additives.

http://www.crcpress.com/

CRC Food Chemical News published by CRC Press provides complete, balanced and accurate coverage of food chemical regulation. Our unique ability to explain complex policies and regulations has earned wide respect. Thousands of top professionals from government, industry and academia depend on the exclusive weekly briefings that FOOD CHEMICAL NEWS has delivered without fail for three and a half decades.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Center For Food Safety and Nutrition from the FDA, has information regarding food additives and much more.

http://www.chemcases.com/nutra/nutra3.htm
ChemCases.com has information regarding the food additive, nutrasweet. Discusses this product with links to a broad amount of information. Run by Kennesaw State University.

http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/resources/food.for.thought/additives/table.html
CNN Interactive has a listing of common food additives, their description, what it is used in and purpose and side effects.

http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm
CSPI's Guide to Food Additives or the Center for Science in the Public Interest has glossary, cancer testing, alphabetical listing of additives, summary of additives' safety, food additive cemetary.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/eafus.html
EAFUS: A Food Additive Database is an informational database maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) under an ongoing program known as the Priority-based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA). It contains administrative, chemical and toxicological information on over 2000 substances directly added to food, including substances regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as direct, "secondary" direct, and color additives, and Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) and prior-sanctioned substances. In addition, the database contains only administrative and chemical information on less than 1000 such substances.

http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sfp/flav_index_en.html
European Commission has information and links related to the European Commission on food additives. Many pertinent links.

http://www.eufic.org/en/quickfacts/food_additives.htm
EUFIC (European Food Information Council) is a backgrounder on food additives. Discusses it answering many of the questions on food additives, why they are necessary, safety, e-number, hyperactivity, allergies, those used in Europe and a bibliography.

http://www.elc-eu.org/
Federation of European Food Additives and Food Enzymes Industries is a source of expertise on technical, regulatry, and scientific aspects of the safety and use of food additives.
http://www.drsref.com.au/foodaddcodes.html
The DrsReference Sitehas a food additive codes and information. It has links regarding each additive listed.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/foodaddi.html
Food Additives has questions and discussion of food additives role, purpose and regulation.

http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/additive.htm
Food Additives in the European Unition discusses the EU law, UK law and E Number list for use on lables.

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_05/21cfrv3_05.html
Food Additives in Chapter I of the FDA, Dept. of Human services. Contains pdf or text files of many different food additives.

http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/
Food Additives Manufacturers and exporters of food color additives including anthocyanins, beta carotene, black currant, burnt sugar, canthaxanthin, carmine, chlorophyll, chlorophyllin, curcumin, elderberry, paprika, spinach and turmeric.

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_05/21cfrv3_05.html
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services has pdf files on food additives, petitions, permitted and indirect additives, GRAS food substances.

http://ific.org/nutrition/ingredients/index.cfm
Food Ingredients has written information on food additives from the International Food Information Council. Site has a search mode.

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/whatsinfood/foodadditives.cfm
Food Standards of Australia and New Zealand has information on the food standards code, standards development, assistance for industry, food safety, recalls & surveillance, primary production, health claims, fortification, whats in food and defintion and information on the additives. Have html and pdf food additives listing.

http://www.lactose.co.uk/milkallergy/foodadditives100.html
Food Additives (Colours, Preservatives & Enhancers) has the E-standards for EC (European Community) and a listing of colours, and additives. Has some information on food additives symptoms, treatment_cure, milk & calcium, milk alternatives and hidden milk products.

http://www.faia.org.uk/
Food Additives and Ingredients Association has information regarding food additives and their safety, allergy and intolerance and diet and behavior.

http://www.foodag.com/

Food Additives Guide has information on additives, ingredients, statistics and other information. .

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/foodadd.html
Food Ingredients and Packaging has approval and notification programs which includes consumer information, industry information, food additive safety, gras stuff, and other color and additive information.

http://ific.org/publications/brochures/additivesbroch.cfm
International Food Information Council has a brochure Food Ingredients & Colors available on-line and as pdf version. Includes general information and information regarding types of additives, what they do, examples of uses and names of additive products used. Information is also available at http://ific.org/nutrition/ingredients/index.cfm discussing additives as ingredients.

http://www.fao.org/ag/agn/jecfa-additives/search.html?lang=en
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives has the online edition of: "Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications". Each specification is in PDF format for online review or printing. All specifications are in English only, but the query interface and background information are provided in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. Is searable.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002435.htm
Medline Plus is a discussion of food additives including, the definition, function, sources, side effects and recommendations.

http://www.msg.net/MSG/msg.html

Monosodium Glutamate has a page of information of this additive.

http://www.nutritiondata.com/food-additives.html
Nutrition Facts and Calorie Counter has a listing of selected food additives and their known usage. Additional information is available.

http://www.geocities.com/napavalley/6454/additivs.html
Tallyrand's Culinary Fare has information on food additives. Discusses groups and identifies additives according to the functions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_additives
Wikipedia discussion of food additives including the numbering system, categories, and external links.

REFERENCES to Top

Anonymous. 1961. Food Additives: What They Are/How They Are Used. Manufacturing Chemist's Association Incorporated. Washington, D.C.

Hughes, O. and M. Bennion. 1970. Food Preservation. IN Introductory Foods p. 449. Collar-MacMillan Limited; london.

Poore, H.D. 19 . Citrus Pectin. Bulletin 1323. United States Department of Agriculture Department Bulletin, Washington, DC.

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