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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Preservatives 796<br />

NAME: Hexamethylenetetramine<br />

CATEGORY: Antimicrobial preservative<br />

FOOD USE: Provolone cheese/ Marinated fish<br />

SYNONYMS: CAS 100-97-0/ EINECS 202-905-8/ E239/ HMTA/ Methenamine/ Aminoform/ Urotropine/ Hexamine<br />

FORMULA: (CH2)6 N4<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 140.22<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: White crystalline powder or colourless lustrous crystals<br />

DENSITY AT 20°C (AND OTHER 1.27<br />

TEMPERATURES) IN g/l:<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Antimicrobial preservative; releases formaldehyde in solution. Setting agent for proteins including<br />

casein used in food packaging paper/paperboard<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Added to provolone cheese and marinated fish; releases formaldehyde which exerts its broad-spectrum<br />

antimicrobial effect<br />

ANTAGONISTS: High pH (formaldehyde is released in acid solution)<br />

LEGISLATION: USA: UK and EUROPE:<br />

FDA 21CFR § 181.30 UK: approved; Europe: listed<br />

REFERENCE: Ash, M., and Ash, I. (1995) <strong>Food</strong> Additives. Gower Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT.

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