# Sulfanilamide

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_dtxsid_dtxsid4023622
Categories: food, industrial
Identifier: 63-74-1

> Sulfanilamide. Greenveil chemical-concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern based on regulatory listings.. Compiled from 6 published data sources.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern based on regulatory listings.
- Confidence in this assessment: High
- Is it a concern? Minor concern: no hazard classifications on record.
- Rationale: EFSA OpenFoodTox genotoxicity classification: Negative. Source: EFSA 2018

## Regulatory status

- EU: EFSA opinion — Updated peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance asulam (variant evaluated asulam-sodium) (EFSA)
- EU: Conclusion on Pesticides Peer Review — Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance asulam (variant evaluated asulam-sodium) (EFSA)
- US: commercial use observed — EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 17 composition records across product categories including Laboratory supplies.
- US: listed in openFDA substance — openFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as chemical.

## Expert safety opinions

- JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives): no opinion on file.
- EFSA (European Food Safety Authority): Updated peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance asulam (variant evaluated asulam-sodium) (EFSA) — 2021 — https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6921; Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance asulam (variant evaluated asulam-sodium) (EFSA) — 2018 — https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5251.

## Data sources

- EFSA OpenFoodTox (updated 2026-10-02): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8120114
- EPA Chemical and Products Database (updated 2020-08-31): http://siri.org/msds/f1/bvr/bvrrh.html
- EPA DSSTox Identifiers (updated 2025-12-29): https://epa.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Chemistry_Dashboard_Data_DSSTox_Identifiers_Mapped_to_CAS_Numbers_and_Names/5588566
- FDA GSRS UNII (updated 2026-02-26): https://precision.fda.gov/uniisearch/
- openFDA Substance (updated 2026-05-24): https://api.fda.gov/other/substance.json?search=unii:21240MF57M
- PubChem Live Enrichment (updated 2026-05-17): https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5333

_Assessed by Greenveil._