Food Additives and Flavourings
The Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF)* evaluates the safety of chemical substances added to food and consumer exposure to them. The Panel's work mainly concerns substances evaluated by EFSA before their use can be authorised in the EU.
FAF Panel Members are scientists from across Europe with expertise in:
- Chemical risk assessment and safety assessment of food additives and flavouring substances
- Toxicology (mammalian): sub-chronic and chronic toxicity (repeated dose studies), genotoxicity and mutagenicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity, allergenicity and immunotoxicity
- Toxicity testing in experimental animals and alternative toxicity testing
- Toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics (ADME - absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) of substances
- Chemistry (organic, inorganic, analytical and synthetic chemistry), especially for the chemical identification and specification of chemical substances
- Exposure assessment and consumption surveys
- Food technology (manufacturing processes and use of food additives)
*The FAF Panel continues the work in most of the areas previously covered by the former Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources Added to Food (ANS). In addition, it has taken over responsibility for the evaluation of flavourings from the former CEF Panel while handing over responsibility for the evaluation of nutrient sources to the NDA Panel.
Panel members
Food Additives and Flavourings Panel members 2018-2024
Previous Panel Members
2017-2018
Chair: Maged Younes
Vice-Chair: Ursula Gundert-Remy; Rudolf Antonius Woutersen
Members: Peter Aggett; Fernando Aguilar; Riccardo Crebelli; Birgit Dusemund; Metka Filipic; Maria Jose Frutos Fernandez; Pierre Galtier; David Gott; Gunter Georg Kuhnle; Claude Lambré; Jean-Charles Leblanc; Therese Lillegaard Inger; Peter Moldeus; Alicja Mortensen; Agneta Oskarsson; Ivan Stankovic; Dina Hendrika Waalkens-Berendsen; Matthew Wright
2014-2017
Chair: Mortensen Alicja
Vice-Chair: Lambré Claude; Woutersen Rudolf Antonius
Members: Aguilar Fernando; Crebelli Riccardo; Di Domenico Alessandro; Dusemund Birgit; Frutos Maria Jose; Galtier Pierre; Gott David; Gundert-Remy Ursula; Leblanc Jean-Charles; Lindtner Oliver; Moldeus Peter; Mosesso Pasquale; Oskarsson Agneta; Parent-Massin Dominique; Stankovic Ivan; Waalkens-Berendsen Ine; Wright Matthew; Younes Maged
2011-2014
Chair: Mortensen Alicja
Vice-Chair: Gott David; Lambré Claude
Members: Aguilar Fernando; Crebelli Riccardo; Dusemund Birgit; Galtier Pierre; Gundert-Remy Ursula; Koenig Juergen; Leblanc Jean-Charles; Mosesso Pasquale; Oskarsson Agneta; Parent-Massin Dominique; Rose Martin; Stankovic Ivan; Tobback Paul; Waalkens-Berendsen Ine; Woutersen Rudolf Antonius; Wright Matthew;
2008-2011
Chair: John Christian Larsen
Vice-Chair: Iona Pratt; Ivonne M.C.M Rietjens
Members: Fernando Aguilar; Ruth Charrondiere, until March 2010; Birgit Dusemund; Pierre Galtier; John Gilbert; David Gott; Sandro Grilli; Rainer Gürtler; Georges Kass, until August 2009; Jürgen König; Claude Lambré; Jean-Charles Leblanc; Alicja Mortensen; Dominique Parent Massin; Ivan Stankovic; Paul Tobback; Tatjana Verguieva; Rudolf Antonius Woutersen
The Declarations of Interests and CVs of previous Panel members are available upon interestmanagement [at] efsa.europa.eu (request).