Extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients (3rd amend. Directive 88/344/EEC)

OBJECTIVE: amending for the third time, and after consultation with the Scientific Committee for Food (SCF), Directive 88/344/EEC on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients. SUBSTANCE: the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive aims at: - discontinuing the authorization of certain solvents which are no longer used: butyl acetate and methyl-propanol-1; - amending the entry for hexane, for which the SCF issued definitive agreement in June 1993; - authorizing, in view of scientific progress, the use of a new substance, approved by the SCF in 1995: 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane, as an extraction solvent in the preparation of flavours. �