WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/132/Add.1
1 November 2001
(01-5369)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 29 October 2001, has been received from the European
Communities
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Through Notification SPS/ N/EEC/132 of 3 August 2001, the European Commission
notified a draft Commission Decision amending Commission Directive 1999/217/EC of 27 March
1999 adopting a register of flavouring substances used in or on foodstuffs.  This draft, which forms
the basis of an extensive safety evaluation programme, makes a number of improvements to theexisting register as regards to the correct identification of the substances concerned (integration of aspecific numbering system “FL-number” and grouping into well-defined chemical families).
Meanwhile, on 26 September 2001, the Scientific Committee on Food concluded that two of
the initially listed substances are to be considered genotoxics and carcinogenics and therefore should
be deleted from the register:
- FL 04.011 (CAS 140-67-0) 1-allyl-4-methoxybenzene (estragole)
- FL 04.012 (CAS 93-15-2) 4-allyl-1,2-dimethoxybenzene (methyleugenol)
The proposed date of adoption (December 2001) remains unchanged.
The adapted texts, in all Community languages are available from the EC enquiry point. The
annex to the text [SANCO/2001/0847/ - rev 1-3], containing the actual listing of substances are in
tabular form (Microsoft Excel format). Once published in the Official Journal of the European
Communities (OJEC), The OJEC is available at http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html .
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