Tocopherol-rich extract (E306): What the Sources Found

Tocopherol-rich extract is the antioxidant the food industry lists as E306. 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 Tocopherol-rich extract does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Tocopherol-rich extract 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.2015.4247 (EFSA Journal 2015;13(9):4247)
No genotoxicity or carcinogenicity concern; data too limited for an ADI; ULs not exceeded in any population group except children in one survey from one country; 'tocopherols (E 306–E 309) are not of safety concern at the levels used in food'.
FDA 21 CFR §182.3890 (tocopherols, GRAS)
GRAS in the US as a chemical preservative.

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.