Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of butylated hydroxyanisole - BHA (E 320) as a food additive

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

• Committees 100%
• Forestomach 100%
• Rat 100%
• Pups 25%
• Antioxidant 25%
• Carcinogenicity 25%
• Genotoxicity 25%
• Growth Retardation 25%

Food Science

• Food nutrients 100%
• Synthetic Antioxidants 100%
• European Food Safety Authority 100%

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science

• Butylated Hydroxyanisole 100%
• No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level 33%
• Hyperplasia 33%
• Genotoxicity 16%
• Behavioral Effect 16%
• Antioxidant 16%
• Carcinogenicity 16%
• Growth Retardation 16%