Food additives other than colours and sweeteners: amending Annexes

In the light of the European Parliament's amendments at first reading, the Commission has adopted an amended proposal. Parliament objected to the approval of food additive E-467 Ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose on the basis of the impurities it might contain. The Commission has re-consulted the Scientific Committee on Food and considers it inappropriate to proceed with the approval before its re-consultation of the Scientific Committee on Food has finished. Therefore, the Commission proposes that the use of ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose should not be approved for the time being.�