Names on a label
- E155
- E 155
- Brown HT
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 1.5 mg per kilogram of body weight per day (May 28, 2014). For a 70 kg (154 lb) adult, that’s about 105 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