Chlorophylls (E140i): What the Sources Found

Chlorophylls is the colour the food industry lists as E140i. 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, each one below.

What Chlorophylls does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Chlorophylls 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.2015.4089 (EFSA Journal 2015;13(5):4089 — Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of chlorophylls (E 140(i)) as food additives)
The available database for chlorophylls was inadequate for risk assessment and did not allow an ADI to be established; however, 'chlorophylls are natural dietary constituents, which are present at relatively high concentrations in a number of foods' and 'the exposure resulting from the use of chlorophylls (E 140(i)) as food additives is lower than the exposure to chlorophylls from the regular diet. Therefore, the Panel concluded that, at the reported use levels, chlorophylls (E 140(i)) are not of safety concern as regards their current use as food additives.'
EFSA European Commission, 'Call for scientific and technical data on the permitted food additives E 140(i) chlorophylls, E 140(ii) chlorophyllins, E 141(i) copper complexes of chlorophylls and E 141(ii) copper complexes of chlorophyllins', published 7 April 2017 (food.ec.europa.eu)
Official EU restatement of the same conclusion, plus the outstanding specification recommendations: the definition and identity of E 140(i) should be updated to describe components other than chlorophylls and possible residual solvents, and the maximum limits for arsenic, lead, mercury and cadmium impurities should be revised.

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.