Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) Food Additive Index

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The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" (GSFA, Codex STAN 192-1995) sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have previously been standardized by Codex.

The GSFA Food Additive Index is an index of individual food additives or food additive groups (indicated in UPPERCASE).

It serves as an index to find the related details on acceptable uses of the food additive in the GSFA atabase.

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://www.fao.org/gsfaonline/foods/index.html?expand=223

http://www.fao.org/gsfaonline/additives/index.html

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius Commission

Domain(s):

Food and Human Nutrition

Type of standard:

Classification scheme

Describes / models / annotates:

Socio-economic data, Value chain data, Food additives, Food product data

Segment of the value chain:

Production

Processing

Additional information

Publication year:

1995

Technical information

Format of the data standard:

HTML, PDF

Download / dump:

http://www.fao.org/gsfaonline/additives/index.html

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

An overview of criteria used for the assessment can be found here.

Total score:

1.35

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Yes, complete, consistent and granular

Authoritative:

Yes

Largely compatible:

Not clear - N/A

Known:

Yes, moderately

Used in software:

Not clear - N/A

Used in datasets:

Not clear - N/A

Discoverable:

Yes

Regulatory:

Not clear - N/A

Endorsed:

Yes, moderately

Long-term, sustainable:

Not clear - N/A

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg fitness:

2.67

Avg adoption:

1.44

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Yes

Versatile:

Served by APIs:

Manageable:

Not clear - N/A

Documented:

Not clear - N/A

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Meaningful:

Annotated:

Not clear - N/A

Referenceable:

Linked:

Clearly licensed:

Openly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg usability:

1.00

Avg openness:

0.29

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/20156

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