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ALLYL ISOVALERATE
COE No.: 2098
FEMA No.: 2045
JECFA No.: 7
Chemical names: 2-PROPENYL ISOVALERATE
Synonyms: ALLYL 3-METHYLBUTANOATE
Functional class: FLAVOURING AGENT
Latest evaluation: 1996
ADI: 0-0.12 mg/kg bw (1990)
Comments: No safety concern at current levels of intake when used as a flavouring agent. The 1990 ADI, equivalent to 0-0.05 mg/kg allyl alcohol, for allyl heptanoate, allyl hexanoate and allyl isovalerate was maintained at the forty-sixth meeting (1996).
Report: TRS 868-JECFA 46/28
Specifications: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 4/FNP 52 Add.4/171
Previous status: 1990, TRS 806-JECFA 37/16 (COMPENDIUM/45), FAS 28-JECFA 37/109. 0-0.12. (EQUIVALENT TO 0-0.05 mg/kg ALLYL ALCOHOL (GROUP ADI WITH ALLYL HEPTANOATE AND ALLYL HEXANOATE)). FU. N, T
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Allyl Isovalerate  (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 36, 1985)
       Allyl Isovalerate  (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 71, 1999)