Names on a label
- E900
- E 900
- Dimethylpolysiloxane
- Dimethyl polysiloxane
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 17 mg per kilogram of body weight per day (March 26, 2020). For a 70 kg (154 lb) adult, that’s about 1.2 g 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