Azodicarbonamide and carbamide (E927)

Azodicarbonamide and carbamide is the additive the food industry lists as E927. In our table it is low risk: it takes 6 of the 33 additive points off a product's score for a child.

In short

Low risk. 6 of the 33 additive points come off a product that carries it.
Flagged for young children. Set only where EFSA’s own exposure assessment shows toddlers or children exceeding or approaching the ADI, or where a regulator used explicitly child-specific language. For a child under 6 it moves one class up.
3 citations from FDA, Law, each one below.

What Azodicarbonamide and carbamide does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Azodicarbonamide and carbamide takes 6 of the 33 additive points off a product's score, and a child under 6 sees it one class higher again. 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.

FDA 21 CFR 172.806 and 21 CFR 137.105 (eCFR)
Azodicarbonamide (E 927a) is permitted in the US as an ageing/bleaching ingredient in cereal flour and as a dough conditioner at up to 45 ppm — the use behind the overwhelming majority of the bare en:e927 tags in this corpus, which is why the parent follows E 927a.
Law Commission Regulation (EU) No 1129/2011 (Annex II Part B of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008); Commission Directive 2004/1/EC
The two children sit on opposite sides of EU law: E 927b carbamide is authorised (chewing gum with no added sugar), while E 927a azodicarbonamide has no authorised EU food use and was separately prohibited by name in food-contact plastics from 2005-08-02. The split is real, which is why this node needs an explicit default rather than a family verdict.
Law US-TX: S.B. 314 (2025); US-LA: S.B. 14 / Act 463 (2025)
Both school-meal statutes name azodicarbonamide — the sub-form a bare en:e927 tag overwhelmingly resolves to — so the parent carries the same child flag as en:e927a; see that row for the full citation.

Why this class

A credible adverse or precautionary signal that stops short of every Moderate and High criterion: peer-reviewed adverse findings not yet reflected in regulatory status, an exposure exceedance confined to high-percentile or single-event estimates, or a precautionary regulatory step short of those criteria — a reduced ADI, a data limitation noted without an adverse conclusion, a narrowed or conditioned authorisation, or a child-focused assessment or school-food law that covers the additive as part of a class.

Our confidence in this row's classification is low. 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.