IPCS INCHEM Home

Summary of Evaluations Performed by the
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

GERANYL ACETATE
COE No.: 201
FEMA No.: 2509
JECFA No.: 58
Chemical names: 3,7-DIMETHYL-2,6-OCTADIEN-1-YL ACETATE
Functional class: FLAVOURING AGENT
Latest evaluation: 1997
ADI: 0-0.5 mg/kg bw (1979)
Comments: No safety concern at current levels of intake when used as a flavouring agent. The 1979 group ADI of 0-0.5 mg/kg bw for citral, geranyl acetate, citronellol, linalool, and linalyl acetate, expressed as citral, was maintained at the fifty-first (TRS 891/90, 1998) and sixty-first (TRS for JECFA 61 in press) meetings.
Report: TRS 884-JECFA 49/64
Specifications: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 9/FNP 52 Add.9/110 (2001)
Tox monograph: FAS 40-JECFA 49/329
Previous status: 2000, COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 8/FNP 52 Add.8/130. R,T
1997, COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 5/FNP 52 Add.5/208. THE 1979 GROUP ADI OF 0-0.5 mg/kg bw FOR GERANYL ACETATE AND RELATED SUBSTANCES, EXPRESSED AS CITRAL, WAS MAINTAINED (TRS 884-JECFA 49/68).
1979, TRS 648-JECFA 23/25,28, FNP 12-JECFA 23/47 (COMPENDIUM/671). NOT PREPARED. 0-0.5 (GROUP ADI FOR CITRAL, GERANYL ACETATE, CITRONELLOL, LINALOOL AND LINALYL ACETATE, EXPRESSED AS CITRAL). R
1967, NMRS 44/TRS 383-JECFA 11/12, FAS 69.31/NMRS 44B-JECFA 11/27, FAS 68.33/NMRS 44A-JECFA 11/44. 0-5 (CONDITIONAL). CO. N
 
27 Jan 04    




    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Geranyl acetate (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 44a)