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Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

ETHYL LACTATE
COE No.: 371
FEMA No.: 2440
JECFA No.: 931
Chemical names: ETHYL 2-HYDROXYPROPANOATE
Synonyms: ETHYL alpha-HYDROXYPROPIONATE
Functional class: FLAVOURING AGENT; CARRIER SOLVENT
Latest evaluation: 2001
ADI: NOT SPECIFIED (1982)
Comments: No safety concern at current levels of intake when used as a flavouring agent. The 1982 group ADI of "not specified" for lactic acid and ethyl lactate was maintained at the fifty-seventh meeting (2001).
Report: TRS 909-JECFA 57/98
Specifications: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 9/FNP 52 Add.9/152
Tox monograph: FAS 48-JECFA 57/333
Previous status: 1982, TRS 683-JECFA 26/20, FNP 25-JECFA 26/83 (COMPENDIUM/609), FAS 17-JECFA 26/78. ADI NOT SPECIFIED (INCLUDED IN THE GROUP ADI FOR LACTIC ACID). NS. R
1980, TRS 653-JECFA 24/17, FNP 17-JECFA 24/45, FAS 15-JECFA 24/124. ADI NOT SPECIFIED (TEMPORARY; INCLUDED IN THE GROUP ADI FOR LACTIC ACID). NS,TE. R,T
1979, TRS 648-JECFA 23/27, FNP 12-JECFA 23/41, FAS 14-JECFA 23/41. 0-12.5 (TEMPORARY; INCLUDED IN THE ADI FOR LACTIC ACID). TE. R,T
1967, NMRS 44/TRS 383-JECFA 11/12, FAS 69.31/NMRS 44B-JECFA 11/20, FAS 68.33/NMRS 44A-JECFA 11/31. 0-100 (CONDITIONAL; AS TOTAL D(-)-LACTIC ACID FROM ALL FOOD ADDITIVE SOURCES). CO. N
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Ethyl lactate (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 44a)
       Ethyl lactate (WHO Food Additives Series 14)
       Ethyl lactate (WHO Food Additives Series 15)