SOLANINE

Overview

CAS number

20562-02-1

Functional Class

Food Contaminant
NATURALLY_OCCURRING_TOXICANT

Evaluations

Evaluation year: 1992

Comments:

The Committee considered that the available data did not permit the determination of a safe level of intake. The Committee felt that the large body of experience with the consumption of potatoes, frequently on a daily basis, indicated that normal glycoalkaloid levels (20-100 mg/kg) found in properly grown and handled tubers were not of concern. To support the continued safe use of potato tubers, those developing new cultivars, and others growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and consuming potatoes, should be aware of the possibility of inadvertently increasing the content of glfycoalkaloids to potentially toxic levels.

Tolerable Intake:

NONE ESTABLISHED

Meeting:

Report:

TRS 828-JECFA 39/31

Tox Monograph:

FAS 30-JECFA 39/339