Spoil

Additive register

Dodecyl gallate

E312·Moderate

The published position

EFSA could not confirm safety and the additive was removed from the EU permitted list.

EFSA opinion, 2015

Where it stands in law

European Union

  • Banned · In force

    EU Regulation 1333/2008

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.

See the Open Food Facts record for E312