Advantame (E969): What the Sources Found

Advantame is the sweetener the food industry lists as E969. 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.
2 citations from EFSA, FDA, each one below.

What Advantame does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Advantame 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 ANS Panel, 'Scientific Opinion on the safety of advantame for the proposed uses as a food additive', EFSA Journal 2013
ADI of 5 mg/kg bw/day derived from a NOAEL of 500 mg/kg bw/day for maternal toxicity in a rabbit prenatal developmental toxicity study with a 100-fold uncertainty factor; the Panel concluded advantame and its metabolites pose no safety concern at proposed uses and use levels.
FDA 21 CFR 172.803 (govinfo CFR-2024-title21-vol3-sec172-803)
Advantame is authorised as a sweetening agent and flavour enhancer in food generally, except in meat and poultry, subject to good manufacturing practice.

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.