Press Release: EFSA updates safety advice on six food colours

The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) scientific panel on additives, the ANS Panel, in November 2009, reduced the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) for three food colours, namely Quinoline Yellow (E104), Sunset Yellow FCF (E110) and Ponceau 4R (E124). As a result, the Panel concluded that exposure to – or consumption of – these colours could exceed the new ADIs for both adults and children. The Panel found that the currently available data did not require a change to the existing ADIs for the three other colours evaluated – Tartrazine (E102), Azorubine/Carmoisine (E122) and Allura Red AC (E129).