Spoil

Additive register

Phosphoric acid

E338·Moderate

The published position

EFSA set the first group acceptable daily intake for phosphates in 2019 and found dietary exposure exceeds it across most population groups.

EFSA opinion, 2019

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.

See the Open Food Facts record for E338