Zinc acetate (E650): What the Sources Found

Zinc acetate is the flavour enhancer the food industry lists as E650. 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.
1 citation from EFSA, each one below.

What Zinc acetate does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Zinc acetate 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 Scientific Committee on Food (EFSA predecessor), 'Opinion on Zinc Acetate as a flavour enhancer in chewing gum', food.ec.europa.eu sci-com_scf_out06
Use of zinc acetate as a flavour enhancer in chewing gum was considered acceptable at up to approximately 1 mg zinc acetate dihydrate (about 0.30 mg zinc) per 1,000 mg of chewing gum centre; EU authorisation under Reg. (EC) 1333/2008 is restricted to chewing gum and no EFSA re-evaluation opinion could be located.

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 low. 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.