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American eel

Concern score

Not assessed — no hazard data yet.

American eel in plain language

What it is

Also known as American eel flesh · Anguilla aterrima flesh · Anguilla blephura flesh · Anguilla chrisypa flesh · Anguilla cubana flesh · Anguilla laticanda flesh

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Anguilla laticauda flesh · Anguilla lutea flesh · Anguilla macrops flesh · Anguilla novaeorleanensis flesh · Anguilla novaeterrae flesh · Anguilla punctatissima flesh · Anguilla rostrata flesh · Anguilla rostrata muscle · Anguilla tenuirostris flesh · Anguilla texana flesh · Anguilla tyrannus flesh · Anguilla wabashensis flesh · Anguilla xanthomelas flesh · Common eel · Freshwater eel · Leptocephalus grassii flesh · Muraena argentea flesh · Muraena bostoniensis flesh · Muraena macrocephala flesh · Muraena rostrata flesh · Muraena serpentina flesh

What it does

We don't have a plain-language description for American eel yet.

Is it a concern?
We haven't assessed a concern score for this ingredient yet.

What we know about this ingredient

FDA GSRS classifies this ingredient as ingredient substance structurallydiverse.

Regulation

No restrictions found. American eel appears in these published regulatory listings.

  • USFDAlisted in openFDA substanceopenFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as structurallydiverse.
    • openFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as structurallydiverse.Source →

Evidence & sources

No graded research studies for American eel yet. This record is compiled from the published data sources below — registries and regulatory listings, not study findings.

2 data sources

Where this comes from

  • FDA GSRS UNII

    registry · updated 2026-02-26

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  • openFDA Substance

    registry · updated 2026-05-24

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Suitability

Context-specific fit derived from published classifications and the current ingredient evidence profile.

Fragrance avoidance

Nothing to weigh for this context yet.

No signal in this context

We have no published hazard signal for this ingredient, so we cannot say how it behaves in this context — that is missing evidence, not a clean result.