One-hundred-and-first meeting - Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

Overview

The One-hundred-and-first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Geneva from 15 to 21 October 2025. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the safety of certain food contaminants, specifically inorganic and organic arsenic species.

The report of the meeting will be published as WHO Technical Report Series No. 1061, summarizing the main conclusions of the Committee in terms of values for point of departure (POD) determined from dose–response analyses, and dietary exposure estimates.

Toxicological and dietary exposure monographs on the arsenic species considered by the Committee will be published as WHO Food Additives Series No. 92.