EAFUS: A Food Additive Database

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This information is generated from a database maintained by the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied

Nutrition (CFSAN) under an ongoing program known as the Priority-

based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA). PAFA contains

administrative, chemical and toxicological information on over 2000

substances directly added to food, including substances regulated by

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as direct, " secondary "

direct, and color additives, and Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)

and prior-sanctioned substances. In addition, the database contains

only administrative and chemical information on less than 1000 such

substances. The more than 3000 total substances together comprise an

inventory often referred to as " Everything " Added to Food in the

United States (EAFUS).

The EAFUS list of substances contains ingredients added directly to

food that FDA has either approved as food additives or listed or

affirmed as GRAS. Nevertheless, it contains only a partial list of

all food ingredients that may in fact be lawfully added to food,

because under federal law some ingredients may be added to food under

a GRAS determination made independently from the FDA. The list

contains many, but not all, of the substances subject to independent

GRAS determinations. For information about the GRAS notification

program please consult the Inventory of GRAS Notifications.

Additional information on the status of Food and Color Additives can

be obtained from the Food Additive Status List or the Color Additive

Status List (formerly called Appendix A of the Investigations

Operations Manual).

The list below is an alphabetical inventory representing only five of

196 fields in FDA/CFSAN's PAFA database.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/eafus.html