Recital (7) · Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/141

(7)The safety of sodium carbonate (E 500) and potassium carbonate (E 501) was evaluated in 1990 by the Scientific Committee for Food, which established its Acceptable daily intake (ADI) as ‘not specified’^note. The term ‘not specified’ means that, on the basis of the available toxicological, biochemical and clinical data, the total daily intake of the substance, arising from its natural occurrence and its present use or uses in food at the levels necessary to achieve the desired technological effect, does not present a hazard to health. In view of that and in the absence of specific priorities for the re-evaluation of sodium carbonates (E 500) and potassium carbonates (E 501) under the programme for the re-evaluation of food additives laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) No 257/2010^note, the Commission considers that the authorisation of use of sodium carbonates (E 500) and potassium carbonates (E 501) as acidity regulators on unprocessed cephalopods constitutes an update of that list which is not liable to have an effect on human health and therefore it is not necessary to seek the opinion of the Authority.

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means that, on the basis of the available toxicological, biochemical and clinical data, the total daily intake of the substance, arising from its natural occurrence and its present use or uses in food at the levels necessary to achieve the desired technological effect, does not present a hazard to health.

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