As early as February 16, 1987 to 25, held in The Hague, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization Joint Committee of Experts on Food Additives, the 19th meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Food Additives Expert Committee (FAO/WHO), it was announced that the abolition of the consumption of MSG (monosodium glutamate) limit, and reconfirmed that MSG is a safe and reliable food additives. Because the United Nations Standard Committee on Food Additives (UNSCFA) in 1973 established a daily intake of 0-120 mg of monosodium glutamate per kilogram of body weight (based on the amount of glutamate), and at that time it was also stipulated that the above intake did not apply to infants less than 12 weeks of age.

The Hague meeting also lifted the restriction on monosodium glutamate for infants under 12 weeks of age. In addition, the U.N. Committee on Food Additives, which met in March of that year, decided that there was no need to investigate the daily intake of MSG. During the 1980s, the safety of monosodium glutamate consumption was carefully studied by food, chemical and pharmaceutical research institutes in many countries around the world. This meeting of authorities ended the debate on the safety of MSG.