Propyl gallate (E310): What the Sources Found

Propyl gallate is the antioxidant the food industry lists as E310. 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.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
3 citations from EFSA, Law, FDA, each one below.

What Propyl gallate does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Propyl gallate takes 6 of the 33 additive 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.2014.3642 (EFSA Journal 2014;12(4):3642)
ADI 0.5 mg/kg bw/day from a 90-day rat NOAEL of 135 mg/kg with UF 300 'for extrapolation from a subchronic to chronic data and due to the limitations in the reproductive toxicity database'; the old gallate group ADI withdrawn; 'the high level of exposure exceeded the ADI in adults and the elderly', though the Panel concluded current uses are not of safety concern.
Law Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1481
Confirms the gallate group ADI is no longer valid while E310 itself remains authorised in the EU (only E311 and E312 were deleted).
FDA 21 CFR §184.1660 (propyl gallate, GRAS)
GRAS in the US as a chemical preservative/antioxidant.

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 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.