The published position
Manufacture can produce 4-methylimidazole; EFSA set a group ADI and California lists 4-MEI under Proposition 65.
EFSA opinion, 2011
Where it stands in law
No enacted restriction is recorded here. That means this register has none on file, not that none exists. Only signed instruments are listed, because bills that have merely been introduced change faster than a register can honestly track them.
None of this moves a score. A law tells you what a shop may sell where you live, which is a different question from what is in the packet, and mixing the two would make two people’s scores for the same product incomparable.
How much of it counts
The penalty for this additive scales with how much of it can be in the product. Where a label bounds it, at a declared percentage or under a “less than 2%” clause, the penalty shrinks accordingly. Where nothing bounds it, the penalty stands in full. The rule is here.