ETHYL LAUROYL ARGINATE

摘要

This substance was placed on the agenda under the name "lauric arginate ethyl ester". The Committee decided that "ethyl lauroyl arginate" should be the name under which it would be evaluated. Ethyl lauroyl arginate was evaluated by the Committee at its present meeting at the request of the Codex Committee on Food Additives at its Thirty-ninth Session (Codex Alimentarius Commission, 2007). The Committee was asked to evaluate all data necessary for the assessment of the safety dietary intake and specifications of ethyl lauroyl arginate. The Committee had not previously evaluated ethyl lauroyl arginate. In 2007, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) established an acceptable daily intake (ADI) for ethyl lauroyl arginate of 0.5 mg/kg body weight (bw) per day (European Food Safety Authority, 2007). On 1 September 2005, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued a letter indicating that it had no questions regarding a Notice that ethyl lauroyl arginate is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) (GRAS Notice No. GRN 000164) for use as an antimicrobial agent at concentrations of up to 225 mg/kg in the categories specified (United States Food and Drug Administration, 2005).