Safety evaluation of certain food additives

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Food additive
Specifications
a
Acceptable daily intake (ADI) and other
toxicological recommendations
salts at its twenty-ninth meeting, when used in
the applications specified and in accordance
with Good Manufacturing Practice.
Specifications were revised to include a new
technological use.
Sucrose oligoesters
(SOE) type I and type II
N
The Committee considered it appropriate to
include SOE type I and type II in a group ADI
of 0–30 mg/kg bw for sucrose esters of fatty
acids, sucroglycerides and SOE type I and type
II. The Committee emphasized that this
evaluation is valid only for the material as
specified.
a
N, new specifications prepared; R, existing specifications revised; T, tentative specifications.
b
ADI “not specified” is used to refer to a food substance of very low toxicity that, on the basis
of the available data (chemical, biochemical, toxicological and other) and the total dietary
intake of the substance arising from its use at the levels necessary to achieve the desired
effects and from its acceptable background levels in food, does not, in the opinion of the
Committee, represent a hazard to health. For that reason, and for the reasons stated in the
individual evaluations, the establishment of an ADI expressed in numerical form is not
deemed necessary. An additive meeting this criterion must be used within the bounds of
Good Manufacturing Practice, i.e. it should be technologically efficacious and should be used
at the lowest level necessary to achieve this effect, it should not conceal food of inferior quality
or adulterated food, and it should not create a nutritional imbalance.
2.
FOOD ADDITIVES CONSIDERED FOR SPECIFICATIONS ONLY
Food additive
Specifications
a
Diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol
R
Ethyl lauroyl arginate
R
Glycerol ester of wood rosin
R, T
Nisin preparation
R
Nitrous oxide
R, T
Pectins
R
Starch sodium octenyl succinate
R
Tannic acid
R
Titanium dioxide
R
Triethyl citrate
R
a
R, existing specifications revised; T, tentative specifications.
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