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Benzoyl Peroxide

Level 3 — ContestedIn Winter's Dictionary

Benzoyl Peroxide is a bleaching agent — Bleaching additive for flour, blue cheese, Gorgonzola, milk, whey

What it does

Bleaching additive for flour, blue cheese, Gorgonzola, milk, whey

Where you'll see it

Flour (up to 40 mg/kg), blue cheese, Gorgonzola, whey (up to 1 mg/kg)

What the research says

Clinical studies have shown it can be a severe skin irritant and skin sensitizing agent in humans. JECFA: possible intake could exceed ADI in some consumers. Toxic by inhalation.

Regulatory status

  • US FDA: GRAS
  • Notes: ASP

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): Clinical studies have shown that benzoyl peroxide can be a severe skin irritant and is a skin sensitizing agent in humans