Natamycin (E235): What the Sources Found

Natamycin is the preservative the food industry lists as E235. 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 Natamycin does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Natamycin 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.2009.1412 (EFSA Journal 2009;7(12):1412)
No ADI derivable due to database limitations, but 'the highest potential exposure to natamycin was below 0.1 mg/kg bw/day for children at the 97.5th percentile', judged to provide an adequate margin of safety versus JECFA's 0.3 mg/kg bw/day ADI; surface treatment of semi-hard/semi-soft cheese rind and sausage casings not of safety concern; 'no concern for the induction of antimicrobial resistance'.
FDA 21 CFR §172.155 (natamycin/pimaricin)
Permitted in the US for specified uses (cheese surface treatment).

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 medium. 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.