Question

Food additives are tested under FDA scrutiny for safety to determine the NOEL. What does this mean?

• A. The additive can potentially cause cancer but only when consumed in very large doses.
• B. The additive can not have any potential cancer-causing effects.
• C. An acceptable level for incidental food additives that may cause cancer.
• D. The highest dose of an additive that produces no deleterious health effects in animals.

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

The highest dose of an additive that produces no deleterious health effects in animals.

Food additives are tested under FDA scrutiny for safety. No-observable-effect-level (NOEL) is the rationale for reducing NOEL by a 100-fold margin is that we assume humans are at least 10 times more sensitive to food additives than are laboratory animals.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.