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Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

d-LIMONENE
COE No.: 491
FEMA No.: 2633
JECFA No.: 1326
Chemical names: d-p-MENTHA-1,8-DIENE; 4-ISOPROPENYL-1-METHYL-CYCLOHEXENE; 1-METHYL-4- (1-METHYLETHENYL) CYCLOHEXENE
Synonyms: (+)-LIMONENE; CINENE
Functional class: FLAVOURING AGENT
Latest evaluation: 2004
ADI: NOT SPECIFIED (1993)
Comments: Use of d-limonene as a flavouring agent is subsumed in the 1993 ADI 'not specified', which was maintained at the sixty-third meeting.
Report: TRS 928-JECFA 63/64
Specifications: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 12/FNP 52 Add. 12/76
Tox monograph: FAS 54-JECFA 63/235
Previous status: 1993, TRS 837-JECFA 41/10, COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 2/FNP 52 Add.2/69, FAS 30-JECFA 39/35 (1992). NOT SPECIFIED. NS. R.
1992, TRS 828-JECFA 39/13, COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 1/FNP 52 Add.1/59, FAS 30-JECFA 39/35. 0-1.5 (APPLIES TO TOTAL INTAKE OF LIMONENE. FOOD ADDITIVE INTAKE SHOULD NOT EXCEED 0.075 MG/KG OF BODY WEIGHT PER DAY, WHICH REPRESENTS 5% OF THE MAXIMUM ADI). FU. N
 
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       Toxicological Abbreviations
       D-limonene (ICSC)