Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA)

(a) to establish or endorse permitted maximum levels for individual food additives;
(b) to prepare priority lists of food additives for risk assessment by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives;
(c) to assign functional classes to individual food additives;
(d) to recommend specifications of identity and purity for food additives for adoption by the Commission;
(e) to consider methods of analysis for the determination of additives in food;
(f) to consider and elaborate standards or codes for related subjects such as the labelling of food additives when sold as such.