Food additives Authors Elisabet García Herrero Universitat de Barcelona Abel Mariné Font Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Food additive, food safety, food technology. Abstract Food additives are chemicals added to processed foods to achieve and guarantee certain characteristics and contribute to its quality and safety. The authorization of their use depends on the proven needs and that strict safety conditions are met. They are classified according to their function.keywords: Food additive, food safety, food technology. Author Biographies Elisabet García Herrero, Universitat de Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciènciesde l’Alimentació. Departament de Nutrició, Ciències de l’Alimentació i Gastronomia Abel Mariné Font, Universitat de Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciènciesde l’Alimentació. Departament de Nutrició, Ciències de l’Alimentació i Gastronomia Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 24 (2018) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.