Safety Evaluation of Certain Food Additives
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WHO FOOD ADDITIVES SERIES: 73 Prepared by the eighty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) Safety evaluation of certain food additives WHO FOOD ADDITIVES SERIES: 73 Prepared by the eighty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) Safety evaluation of certain food additives World Health Organization, Geneva, 2017 Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the Eighty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017 (WHO Food Additives Series, No. 73). Cataloguing-in-Publication data are available at http://apps.who.int/iris. ISBN 978-92-4-166073-0 ISBN (PDF) 978-92-4-069646-4 ISSN 0300-0923 © WHO and FAO, 2017 All rights reserved. The World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) encourage the use, reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product. 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Design: Rania Spatha (www.raniaspatha.com) Printed in Malta CONTENTS Preface v Safety evaluations of specific food additives (other than flavouring agents) 1 Allura Red AC (addendum) 3 Carob bean gum (addendum)1 47 Pectin (addendum)1 73 Quinoline Yellow (addendum) 87 Rosemary extract 123 Steviol glycosides (addendum) 181 Tartrazine (addendum) 219 Xanthan gum 1 269 Safety evaluations of groups of related flavouring agents 327 Introduction 329 Alicyclic, alicyclic-fused and aromatic-fused ring lactones (addendum) 333 Aliphatic and aromatic amines and amides (addendum) 343 Aliphatic secondary alcohols, ketones and related esters (addendum) 383 Cinnamyl alcohol and related substances (addendum) 403 Tetrahydrofuran and furanone derivatives (addendum) 437 Annex 1 Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives 467 Annex 2 Abbreviations used in the monographs 479 Annex 3 Participants in the eighty-second meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives 483 Annex 4 Toxicological and dietary exposure information and information on specifications 487 1 For use in infant formula and formula for special medical purposes intended for infants. iii PREFacE The monographs contained in this volume were prepared at the eighty-second meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which met at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 7–16 June 2016. These monographs summarize the data on selected food additives, including flavouring agents, reviewed by the Committee. The eighty-second report of JECFA has been published by WHO as WHO Technical Report No. 1000. Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of JECFA are listed in Annex 1. The participants in the meeting are listed in Annex 3 of the present publication. A summary of the conclusions of the Committee with respect to the food additives discussed at the meeting is given in Annex 4. JECFA serves as a scientific advisory body to FAO, WHO, their Member States and the Codex Alimentarius Commission, primarily through the Codex Committee on Food Additives, the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food and the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods, regarding the safety of food additives, residues of veterinary drugs, naturally occurring toxicants and contaminants in food. Committees accomplish this task by preparing reports of their meetings and publishing specifications or residue monographs and dietary exposure and toxicological monographs, such as those contained in this volume, on substances that they have considered. The monographs contained in this volume are based on working papers that were prepared by WHO experts. A special acknowledgement is given at the beginning of each monograph to those who prepared these working papers. The monographs were edited by J. Odrowaz, Toronto, Canada. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the organizations participating in WHO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the organizations in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Any comments or new information on the biological or toxicological properties of or dietary exposure to the compounds evaluated in this publication should be addressed to: WHO Joint Secretary of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. v SAFETY EVALUATIONS OF SPECIFIC FOOD ADDITIVES (OTHER THAN FLAVOURING AGENTS) 1 Allura Red AC (addendum) First draft prepared by Xudong Jia,1 Janis Baines,2 Julie N. Barrows,3 Michael DiNovi,4 Josef Schlatter5 and Harriet C. Wallin6 1 China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China 2 Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 3 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America (USA) 4 Division of Biotechnology and GRAS Notice Review, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA 5 Zurich, Switzerland 6 Helsinki, Finland 1. Explanation 4 1.1 Chemical and technical considerations 4 2. Biological data 5 2.1 Biochemical aspects 5 2.1.1 Absorption, distribution and excretion 5 2.1.2 Biotransformation 5 2.1.3 Effects on enzymes 6 2.2 Toxicological studies 7 2.2.1 Acute toxicity 7 2.2.2 Short-term studies of toxicity 7 2.2.3 Long-term studies of toxicity and carcinogenicity 8 2.2.4 Genotoxicity 11 2.2.5 Reproductive and developmental toxicity 15 2.2.6 Special studies 18 2.3. Observations in humans 20 2.3.1 Epidemiological studies 20 2.3.2 Hypersensitivity studies 21 2.3.3 Skin sensitization studies 21 3. Dietary exposure 22 3.1 Food uses 22 3.2 Assessment of dietary exposure 27 3.2.1 Estimates of dietary exposure 27 3.2.2 National estimates of dietary exposure 28 3.2.3 General conclusions 36 4. Comments 37 4.1 Biochemical aspects 37 4.2 Toxicological studies 37 4.3 Observations in humans 39 4.4 Assessment of dietary exposure 40 5. Evaluation 41 6. References 41 3 Safety evaluation of certain food additives Eighty-second JECFA 1. Explanation Allura Red AC (International Numbering System for Food Additives [INS] No. 129) is a monoazo dye that is widely used as a synthetic food colour in many countries around the world. The Committee previously evaluated Allura Red AC at its eighteenth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth meetings (Annex 1, references 35, 50, 53 and 56). At its twenty-fourth meeting, the Committee established a temporary acceptable daily intake (ADI) of 0–7 mg/kg body weight (bw) based on long-term rat studies. At its twenty-fifth meeting, the Committee established a full ADI of 0–7 mg/kg bw. At the present meeting, the Committee re-evaluated this colour at the request of the Forty-seventh Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives (FAO/WHO, 2015). In response to the Committee’s request for further data, new studies on biochemical effects, genotoxicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurobehavioural effects and studies in humans (International Association of Colour Manufacturers, 2015) were submitted. The Committee also considered other related information available in the literature. The search of the scientific literature was conducted in March 2016 using the PubMed database of the United States National Library of Medicine.