ACETEM (E472a): What the Sources Found

Acetic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (ACETEM) is the emulsifier the food industry lists as E472a. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score for a child.

In short

No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps all 33 additive points.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
3 citations from EFSA, FDA, Law, each one below.

What ACETEM does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. ACETEM takes no points off a product's score. Scan the pack in Sito and the score you get is the one for your own child's age, with this additive named in the reasons. How we score has the whole method.

What the sources found

Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. They are quoted as the source wrote them.

EFSA 10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6032 (EFSA Journal 2020;18(3):6032, PMC7448088 — Re-evaluation of E 472a-f as food additives)
'there is no need for a numerical ADI for E 472a,b,c'; 'considering the exposure estimates, there is no safety concern at their reported uses and use levels for E 472a-f'; E 472a-f are not of concern with regard to genotoxicity.
FDA 21 CFR 172.828 (Acetylated monoglycerides) — Part 172 "Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption"; verified against the current eCFR structure
The corresponding US listing; acetylated monoglycerides are permitted for direct addition to food in the US.
Law Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 Annex II, consolidated text 02008R1333 — EN — 16.12.2024 — 059.001 (EUR-Lex ELI: reg/2008/1333)
E 472a authorised in the EU at quantum satis across the Group I categories.

Why this class

Clean current EFSA and FDA status. These rows exist so that an unfamiliar additive is never treated as a bad one: a missing row costs a product nothing, and a clean row says so with citations.

Our confidence in this row's classification is high. Medium or low does not mean the evidence is weak; it means something about the row is still being pinned down, usually a regulatory status confirmed from one source rather than two.