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In order to clarify one point made in this paper, the authors have requested that we correct the statements referring to the dose levels used in the McCann et al., 2007 publication (I.e. the so-called ‘Southampton Study’). In the paper they are stated as being equal to the ADI, when in fact they were lower. This error arose in the manuscript because the ‘daily amounts’ (mg/person/day) were directly compared to the ADIs, which are expressed in dose units (mg/kg bw/day). To correct this calculation error, the following revisisions have been made to the online and print version of the paper.
ABSTRACT
“…The results of the analysis indicate that (1) the use levels reported by the industry are consistent with the concentrations measured analytically by the US Food and Drug Administration; and (2) exposure to food-colour additives in the United States by average and high-intake consumers is well below the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of each colour additive as published by the Joint WHO/FAO Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and allows wide margins of safety. It is concluded that…”
Discussion
“In the Southampton study, children were given a combination of four colours and a preservative at daily amounts adding up to levels of intake well above the high end of the range estimated in our study. The results of this exposure assessment and the exposure estimates obtained by Doell et al. (2016) easily demonstrate that the Southampton study design tested levels above conservative intakes for the US population.”