The Food Additives Revival I. Current food additives law 1. The “mother directive” Since 1989 the law on food additives has been regulated by Council Directive 89/107/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning food additives authorised for use in foodstuffs intended for human consumption.1 Surprisingly this “mother directive” has only been changed twice since entering into force and can thus rightly be called a fundament