Re-evaluation of thaumatin (E 957) as food additive.

ABSTRACT: The present opinion deals with the re-evaluation of thaumatin (E 957) when used as a food additive. Thaumatin is a natural plant protein, consisting of thaumatin I and thaumatin II proteins together with minor amounts of plant constituents, obtained by acidic aqueous extraction of the arils of the fruit of Thaumatococcus daniellii plant. The Panel followed the conceptual framework for the risk assessment of certain food additives and considered that thaumatin is a digestible protein; adequate exposure estimates were available; there was no concern with respect to the genotoxicity; no conclusion on oral allergenicity could be drawn from the available human data; no adverse effects were observed in sub-chronic toxicity studies in rats and dogs at the highest dose tested of up 5,200 an

SUBMITTER: EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8630604 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature