EU assessment of the safety of cochineal bark extract as a food additive

At the request of the European Commission, the European Food Safety Agency assessed the safety of annatto extract as a food additive, according to the European food safety agency The extract of cochineal bark can be divided into two groups: Bixin and norbixin According to the toxicological test, the European food safety administration thinks that it is reasonable to set ADI of carmine tree orange as 6 mg / kg body weight / day and Adi of reduced carmine tree orange as 0.3 mg / kg body weight / day Some of the original reports a re as follows: following a request from the European Commission to EFSA, the EFSA panel on food additions and nutritional sources added to food (ANS) was asked to re evaluate the safety of annotto extracts, Bixin based and norbixin based, when used as a food addition and to evaluate the safety of frequent processing bixin(Annatto E)；solvent-extracted bixin(Annatto B)；alkali-processed norbixin，acid-precipitated(Annatto F)；alkali-processed norbixin，not acid-precipitated(Annatto G)and solvent-extracted norbixin(Annatto C)with the view to replac the currently authorised annatto extracts(E 160b)。