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Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

ETHYL FORMATE
COE No.: 339
FEMA No.: 2434
JECFA No.: 26
Chemical names: ETHYL FORMATE
Functional class: FLAVOURING AGENT
Latest evaluation: 1996
ADI: 0-3 mg/kg bw (1979)
Comments: No safety concern at current levels of intake when used as a flavouring agent. The group ADI of 0-3 mg/kg bw that was established for formic acid and ethyl formate at the twenty-third meeting (1979) was maintained at the forty-sixth meeting (1996).
Report: TRS 868-JECFA 46/21
Specifications: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 4/FNP 52 Add.4/177
Tox monograph: See TRS 868-JECFA 46/64 (1996)
Previous status: 1996, TRS 868-JECFA 46/21
1982, FNP 25-JECFA 26/80 (1982); COMPENDIUM/591
1979, TRS 648-JECFA 23/27, FNP 12-JECFA 23/39, FAS 14-JECFA 23/37. 0-3 (GROUP ADI FOR FORMIC ACID AND ETHYL FORMATE). FU. R
1967, NMRS 44/TRS 383-JECFA 11/12, FAS 69.31/NMRS 44B-JECFA 11/18, FAS 68.33/NMRS 44A-JECFA 11/27. 0-5 (CONDITIONAL; AS TOTAL FORMIC ACID FROM ALL FOOD ADDITIVE SOURCES). CO. N
 
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    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations
       Ethyl formate (ICSC)
       Ethyl formate (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 44a)
       Ethyl formate (WHO Food Additives Series 14)