Safety of low‐substituted hydroxypropyl cellulose (L‐HPC) to be used as a food additive in food supplements in tablet form
2018
Younes, Maged | Aggett, Peter | Aguilar, Fernando | Crebelli, Riccardo | Dusemund, Birgit | Filipič, Metka | Frutos, Maria Jose | Galtier, Pierre | Gundert‐Remy, Ursula | Kuhnle, Gunter Georg | Lambré, Claude | Leblanc, Jean‐Charles | Lillegaard, Inger Therese | Moldeus, Peter | Mortensen, Alicja | Oskarsson, Agneta | Stankovic, Ivan | Waalkens‐Berendsen, Ine | Woutersen, Rudolf Antonius | Wright, Matthew | Herman, Lieve | Tobback, Paul | Pizzo, Fabiola | Smeraldi, Camilla | Tard, Alexandra | Papaioannou, Adamantia | Gott, David
Low-substituted hydroxypropyl cellulose (L-HPC) is a low-substituted poly(hydroxypropyl) ether of cellulose. L-HPC is proposed for use as a food additive in food supplements in solid form (tablet), with a maximum use level of 20,000 mg/kg and a typical use level of 10,000 mg/kg. Exposure estimates to L-HPC from its proposed use were calculated for both typical and maximum use levels. Due to the close chemical relationship between L-HPC and other celluloses recently re-evaluated by EFSA, the Panel decided to read-across the biological data already evaluated in the context of the re-evaluation programme. The Panel concluded that there was no safety concern from the proposed use and use levels of L-HPC.
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