Food Ingredients Manufacturers

The Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) is a compendium of internationally recognized standards, or monographs, for purity and identity of food ingredients.

Published since 1966, FCC allows manufacturers of food, food ingredients, food additives, and processing aids to comply with written standards, also called monographs, that have been created and vetted by a highly rigorous and transparent scientific process. The FCC is complemented by reference standards, educational courses, workshops and much more:

FCC, reference materials, FCC Forum, Errata

• Order the Food Chemical Codex (FCC)
• Access the FCC Forum Online
• Learn more about the FCC Forum
• Purchase reference standards
• Subscribe to the free FCC newsletter
• Access archived editions of the FCC Newsletter
• FCC Revisions, Commentary, and Errata

Education, workshops and other meetings

• Access educational resources
• Learn more about upcoming workshops
• View presentations from stakeholder forums

Public Revisions and Comments Process

• Learn about the FCC revision and comment process
• View the FCC development process or accelerated processes for revision
• Participate with the FCC Forum

Questions and Information

• Frequently asked questions about the Food Chemicals Codex
• Information on the new Dietary Supplements Compendium

USP Information Resources

• "Provisional Monographs" for Self-Affirmed GRAS Ingredients"
• "USP Food Reference Materials and the FCC: A Service to the Food and Analytical Community"
• U.S. Pharmacopeia Working to Better Detect, Measure Melamine Adulteration in Food
• The FCC Forum—Your Opportunity, Your Responsibility to the Public Standards-Setting Process
• FCC Expert Viewpoint: How Do 'Standards' and FCC Accommodate Innovation?
• The FCC at USP: A New Home for Food Ingredient Standards
• FCC Expert Viewpoint: Why Are "Standards" So Important...Do They Really Relate to Safety?
• USP's Assumption of the Food Chemicals Codex: Risks and Opportunities (2007)  (83KB)
• Published Specifications Strengthen the U.S. Safety Net for Food Ingredients (2008)  (559KB)
• The Scientific Utility of the Food Chemicals Codex for Every Food Scientist: Why the Food Chemicals Codex should be on every food scientist's bookshelf (2008)  (3.9MB)
• The supportive relationship between current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and quality specifications for dietary supplements/dietary ingredients (2008)  (432KB)