Us food and Drug Administration revises food additive regulations
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Last Update: 2007-11-26
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Recently, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final regulation amending the provisions of food additives, which stipulates that polydextrose can be used safely as a bulking agent, formula aid, wetting agent and thickener in all foods except meat, poultry, infant food and formula milk powder Polydextrose is mainly used to increase the fiber content of food, replace sucrose, and reduce the calories and fat content In addition, the food and drug administration has issued another notice of the newly revised food additive regulations, which stipulates the safe use of rosin glyceride oil in regulating the concentration of citrus oil used for beverage preparations; and also stipulates the use of steam extraction as a purification method in the production of rosin, gum rosin or floating oil rosin.
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