CAC/GL 75-2010 Guidelines on Substances used as Processing Aids
1. OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE
The Guidelines aim to provide information for the safe use of substances used as processing aids and the safety of their residues in the preparation of foods and food ingredients.
2. DEFINITION
Processing aid means any substance or material, not including apparatus or utensils, and not consumed as a food ingredient by itself, intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or its ingredients, to fulfil a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing and which may result in the non-intentional but unavoidable presence of residues or derivatives in the final product.
