Polydimethylsiloxane — Food Additive Index

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Polydimethylsiloxane by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
Jurisdiction	Status	Scope and limits	Citation
United StatesFood and Drug Administration	Not listedDoes not appear on this jurisdiction’s permitted list. That is not the same as being prohibited.
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFA	Permitted, with conditions	32 food categories highest permitted level 110 mg/kg Show every food category 01.1.4 Flavoured Fluid Milk Drinks — 50 mg/kg 01.5.1 Milk powder and cream powder (plain) — 10 mg/kg 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) — 50 mg/kg 02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats — 10 mg/kg 02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats — 10 mg/kg 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads — 10 mg/kg 04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products — 10 mg/kg 04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine — 10 mg/kg 04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit — 10 mg/kg 04.1.2.5 — 30 mg/kg 04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category — 10 mg/kg 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, incl. fruit-flavoured water-based desserts — 110 mg/kg 04.2.2.1 Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds and nuts and seeds — 10 mg/kg 04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soybean sauce — 10 mg/kg 04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds — 10 mg/kg 04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g. peanut butter) — 10 mg/kg 04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5 — 50 mg/kg 04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, — 10 mg/kg 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products — 10 mg/kg 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3, and 05.4 — 10 mg/kg 05.3 Chewing gum — 100 mg/kg 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products — 50 mg/kg 06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) — 10 mg/kg 12.5 Soups and broths — 10 mg/kg 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) — 50 mg/kg 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction — 50 mg/kg 13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories — 50 mg/kg 13.6 Food supplements — 50 mg/kg 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," “energy,” or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks — 20 mg/kg 14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages — 10 mg/kg 14.2.2 Cider and perry — 10 mg/kg 14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low-alcoholic refreshers) — 10 mg/kg	CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 900aand 31 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Produced by polymerising dimethylsiloxane units. It is chemically inert, does not react with food, and passes through the body unabsorbed.

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CAS registry number: 9016-00-6

Every name it appears under

4 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

INS number

900a

CAS registry number

9016-00-6

Other names

POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE

Systematic names

Polydimethylsiloxane

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

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