2017•Food Additives and Contaminants Part A-chemistry Analysis Control Exposure & Risk AssessmentRequires access
Estimated daily intake and safety of FD&C food-colour additives in the US population Part A Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment
Maria Bastaki, Thomas P. Farrell, Sachin Shivling Bhusari, Xiaoyu Bi, Carolyn Scrafford
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Abstract
A refined exposure assessment was undertaken to calculate the estimated daily intake (EDI) of the seven FDC and (2) exposure to food-colour additives in the United States by average and high-intake consumers is well below the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of each colour additive as published by the Joint WHO/FAO Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and allows wide margins of safety. It is concluded that food colour use as currently practised in the United States is safe and does not result in excessive exposure to the population, even at conservative ranges of food consumption and levels of use.