General Information

Functional Class: Food Additives
PRESERVATIVE
COLOUR_RETENTION_AGENT

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Evaluations

Evaluation year: 2002
ADI: 0-3.7 mg/kg bw (1995)
Meeting: 44
Comments: The Committee retained the ADI of 0-3.7 mg/kg bw, expressed as nitrate ion (or 0-5 mg/kg bw expressed as sodium nitrate), established at its forty-fourth meeting (1995).
Report: TRS 913-JECFA 59/26
Tox Monograph: FAS 50-JECFA 59/75
Specification: See POTASSIUM NITRATE AND/OR SODIUM NITRATE

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