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DATEM (E472e)

E472e is in the E400s, the range used for thickeners, stabilizers and emulsifiers. 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. Re-evaluation of acetic acid, lactic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, mono- and diacetyltartaric acid, mixed acetic and tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (E 472a-f) as food additives, 2020.
  2. European Food Safety Authority. Glossary: acceptable daily intake.

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