Natural Food Colours Association
Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
NATCOL is The Natural Food Colours Association that represents the international interests of companies and associations involved in natural food colours and/or colouring foods mainly for the food and drink industry. NATCOL is an international non-profit organisation founded in 1979 in Basle, Switzerland. It is a global organisation based in Europe, acting world wide with a wide membership, e.g. Japan, India, North and South America. NATCOL is the go to association for the use of natural colours and colouring foods in food/drink, feed, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. NATCOL provides sound scientific evidence on Natural Colours and Colouring Foods to preserve customers and consumers’ choice.
EU Legislative Interests
NATCOL key interests: - Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives - Commission Regulation 231/2012 laying down specification for food additives - Regulation EU 257/2010 setting up a programme for the re-evaluation of approved food additives – implementation of follow-up from EFSA opinions - EU policy and input regarding Codex Committee on Food Additives - see https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/international-affairs/international-standards/codex-alimentarius/ccfa_en
Communication Activities
NATCOL communications are publicly posted on its website, i.e. https://natcol.org/library/position-papers/
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
NATCOL is a member of EUSFI (European Specialty Food Ingredients association) and is an observer at Codex level.
Organisation Members
All NATCOL members are publicly listed in its website i.e. https://natcol.org/members/our-members