Item Description:Kept up to date by supplements and interim revisions.
Latest issue consulted: 6th ed. (2008/2009).
Earlier issues, 1st ed.-5th ed. and supplements, cataloged as monographs in LC.
Prepared by: Committee on Codex Specifications, Food Nutrition Board, Division of Biological Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research council, 3rd edition (1981); Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Institute of Medicine, 4th-5th edition (1996-2004); United States Pharmacopeial Convention, 6th edition (2008/2009-)
Continues the loose-leaf Food chemicals codex of 1963.
Physical Description:v. : ill. ; 24-28 cm.