SODIUM IRON(III) ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETIC ACID (SODIUM IRON EDTA) (addendum)

摘要

At the request of thei Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants at its thirty-eighth session (Codex Alimentarius Commission, 2006), the Committee re-evaluated the safety of sodium iron(lll) ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid trihydrate (in short, sodium iron EDTA) as to its use for iron fortification.Sodium iron EDTA exists in the trihydrate form, as represented in Figure 1. Sodium iron EDTA was evaluated previously by the Committee. At its forty-first meeting (Annex 1, reference 107), the Committee was asked to provide an assessment of the safety ofsodium iron EDTA for its use as a dietary supplement in supervised food fortification programmes in populations in which iron deficiency anaemia is endemic.