Beta-apo-8'-carotenal (E160e): What the Sources Found

Beta-apo-8'-carotenal (C30) is the colour the food industry lists as E160e. 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.
2 citations from EFSA, each one below.

What Beta-apo-8'-carotenal does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Beta-apo-8'-carotenal 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.

EFSA 10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2499
Re-evaluation set an ADI of 0.05 mg/kg bw/day; Tier-2 exposure for children (mean 0.5-3.4, P95 1.2-7.2 mg/kg bw/day) was far above it.
EFSA 10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3492
ADI reconsidered upward to 0.3 mg/kg bw/day (NOAEL 30 mg/kg bw/day, 13-week rat study, UF 100); high-level toddler exposure of up to 0.45 mg/kg bw/day still exceeds it.

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 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.