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Certain food and feed products, known as regulated products, including food additives and flavourings, must be authorised as safe before they can be sold. To do this, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) conduct a thoroug

The ADI, which reflects the safe amount of a substance that can be consumed daily over a lifetime, covers saccharin and its sodium, calcium and potassium salts (E 954). The previous ADI was set in 1995 based on the increased incidence of bladder tumo

According to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008^[1], food additives which were permitted for use in the European Union before 20 January 2009 need to be re-evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The programme for this re-evaluation is defin

EFSA’s expert Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF) is responsible for assessing the safety of new food additives and new uses of permitted food additives. Furthermore, it has been conducting re-evaluations of all food additives authorised fo

The European Commission has set new limits for the use of nitrites and nitrates as food additives.

The tighter levels aim to protect against pathogenic bacteria such as Listeria, Salmonella, and Clostridium botulinum, while reducing the exposure to n