Safety Assessment of Butylated Hydroxyanisole and Butylated Hydroxytoluene As Antioxidant Food Additives

Overview

Journal Food Chem Toxicol

Specialties Nutritional Sciences
Toxicology

Date 1999 Oct 29

PMID 10541460

Citations 55

Authors

G M Williams

M J Iatropoulos

J Whysner

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Abstract

Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) are widely used antioxidant food additives. They have been extensively studied for potential toxicities. This review details experimental studies of genotoxicity and carcinogenicity which bear on cancer hazard assessment of exposure to humans. We conclude that BHA and BHT pose no cancer hazard and, to the contrary, may be anticarcinogenic at current levels of food additive use.

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