Brilliant black BN (E151)

Names on a label

• E151
• E 151
• Brilliant black BN

Labels outside Europe often print the number on its own, without the E.

What regulators and scientists say

• EFSA set an acceptable daily intake of 5 mg per kilogram of body weight per day (December 11, 2014). For a 70 kg (154 lb) adult, that’s about 350 mg a day.¹

An acceptable daily intake is, in EFSA’s words, “an estimate of the amount of a substance in food or drinking water that can be consumed daily over a lifetime without presenting an appreciable risk to health.”²