Red 2G (E128): What the Sources Found

Red 2G is the colour the food industry lists as E128. In our table it is high risk: it takes 30 of the 33 additive points off a product's score for a child.

In short

High risk. 30 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.
2 citations from EFSA, Law, each one below.

What Red 2G does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Red 2G takes 30 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 AFC Panel, Opinion on the food colour Red 2G (E 128), EFSA Journal (2007), efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/515
Red 2G is readily converted in the body to aniline, and a genotoxic and carcinogenic risk from that metabolite could not be excluded.
Law EU: Commission Regulation (EC) No 884/2007 - emergency measures suspending use of E 128 as a food colour (July 2007)
Following the EFSA opinion of 5 July 2007, Member States unanimously approved suspension of E 128 on 20 July 2007 and it was removed from the EU permitted colours list.

Why this class

IARC Group 1 or 2A with a dietary exposure route; or EFSA has withdrawn or negated a safety conclusion; or EFSA’s own exposure assessment finds a child age group exceeding the ADI at mean intake; or the substance is banned or formally being phased out for food use by the EU, by the US FDA, or under a US state law.

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.