食品添加剂及食品营养源专家组分别评估了脂肪酸作为食品添加剂的遗传毒性、慢性毒性、生殖毒性,认为人体通过膳食途径接触的脂肪酸仅占总饱和脂肪酸暴露量的1%,脂肪酸作为食品添加剂用于食品不存在安全风险。
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The EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS) provides a scienti copinion re-evaluating the safety of fatty acids (E 570) when used as a food additive. The food additiveincludes caprylic- (C8), capric- (C10), lauric- (C12), myristic- (C14), palmitic- (C16), stearic- (C18) andoleic acid (C18:1), present alone or in combination. In 1991, the Scienti?c Committee on Food (SCF)established a group acceptable daily intake (ADI) 'not specified' for the fatty acids (myristic, stearic,palmitic and oleic acid)。