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Does an official comprehensive list of the E-numbers exists?

I'm thinking of something along what the Wikipedia page provides:

  • Number
  • Role
  • Name
  • Description
  • Approval
  • Notes

An example of an entry could be:

  • E110
  • Colour
  • Sunset Yellow FCF
  • Used to grand a yellow-orange colour
  • Approved in the European Union, approved in the United States of America, banned in Norway
  • Products in the European Union require warnings and its use is being phased-out

These informations can be found scattered around the internet, but I've not yet been able to find a single page containing all of them besides the Wikipedia article (not that I've anything against Wikipedia, but I'd like an official source instead of a page anyone can edit and whose accuracy can't be guaranteed), lLooking up the informations through 4/5 documents every time is impractical.

At the moment I've been able to find these official documents:

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  • I don't know that such a single compendium exists, but it seems like it would be a worthy addition to Wikipedia if you were willing to compile it from the disparate sources. – SAJ14SAJ Aug 18 '13 at 14:33
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    I'm guessing the really unlikely thing here is to find an official source with information for both the EU and the US. Something published by the US government is a lot less likely to also have the EU information. (And if it does, it's not "official" information for the EU.) – Cascabel Aug 18 '13 at 15:53
  • As Jefromi says, docs are official in different juristictions, I suggest to look at the wikipedia pages notes, a quick check gave me [this](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1995L0002:20060815:EN:PDF) that looks quite good and comprehencive (but to many for me to check..), but if you want US official you might have to find another link. – Stefan Aug 18 '13 at 23:42
  • There is a book called food additives which contains many of them. They may have other references that'd be useful. – MandoMando Aug 18 '13 at 23:42
  • I'm not sure if the US even uses them normally. (we have 'yellow dye #5' and names like that over here). Another place that you might try asking is on [OpenData.SE](http://opendata.stackexchange.com/) – Joe Oct 08 '13 at 11:22

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http://www.ukfoodguide.net/enumeric.htm

The E numbers are standardized across all EU nations. I'm not even aware if non EU nations use them?

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