Laurel Leaf Oil as Feed Additive: EFSA Evaluation

The present assessment is based on data submitted by the applicant in the form of a technical dossier⁹ in support of the authorisation request for the use of laurel leaf oil from L. nobilis as a feed additive.
The FEEDAP Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) used the data provided by the applicant together with data from other sources, such as previous risk assessments by EFSA or other expert bodies, peer‐reviewed scientific papers, other scientific reports and experts' knowledge, to deliver the present output.
Many of the components of the essential oil under assessment have been already evaluated by the FEEDAP Panel as chemically defined flavourings. The applicant submitted a written agreement to reuse the data submitted for the assessment of chemically defined flavourings (dossiers, publications and unpublished reports) for the risk assessment of preparations belonging to BDG 6, including the current one under assessment.¹⁰EFSA has verified the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) report as it relates to the methods used for the control of the phytochemical markers in botanically defined flavourings from Group 06 – Laurales, Magnoliales, Piperales. During the assessment, upon request from EC and EFSA, the EURL issued two amendments of the original report.¹¹ For the additive under assessment, laurel oil, the evaluation of the method of analysis is included in the second amendment. In particular, for the characterisation of laurel oil the EURL recommended methods based on gas chromatography with flame ionisation detector (GC‐FID) for the quantification of the phytochemical marker 1,8 cineole in laurel oil.¹²