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Nisin (E234)

E234 is in the E200s, the range used for preservatives. Here’s what it goes by on a label, and what regulators and scientists have said about it.

Sources checked September 26, 2026

Names on a label

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

What regulators and scientists say

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

Sources

  1. EFSA. Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food on the safety in use of nisin as a food additive in an additional category of liquid eggs and on the safety of nisin produced using a modified production process as a food additive, 2006.
  2. European Food Safety Authority. Glossary: acceptable daily intake.

Records as held by Revely on September 26, 2026. Each links to its source.