CAC/GL 9-1987 General Principles for the Addition of Essential Nutrients to Foods
INTRODUCTION
The General Principles for the Addition of Essential Nutrients to Foods are intended:. To provide guidance to those responsible for developing guidelines and legal texts pertaining to the addition of essential nutrients to foods.
. To establish a uniform set of principles for the rational addition of essential nutrients to foods.
. To maintain or improve the overall nutritional quality of foods.
. To prevent the indiscriminate addition of essential nutrients to foods thereby decreasing the risk of health hazard due to essential nutrient excesses, deficits or imbalances. This will also help to prevent practices which may mislead or deceive the consumer.
. To facilitate acceptance in international trade of foods which contain added essential nutrients.
1. SCOPE
These principles are intended to apply to all foods to which essential nutrients are added.
