The Expert Panel of the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association continues to perform its primary function of evaluating the safety of flavoring substances under the conditions of intended use.
For more than four decades, the FEMA Expert Panel has maintained a safety evaluation program to respond to the provision in the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act—Public Law 85-929, 72 Stat. 1784 (1958), codified at 21 USC Sec. 348 (1988)—that exempted from food a…