Food additives data book - wordpres

ARSENIC CONTENT MAXIMUM IN ppm: 3
FUNCTION IN FOODS: Used as a carrier in bleaching, bleaching agent in flour. Used in cottage cheese as an alkali.
Used as a firming agent in canned vegetables. Used as a dough conditioner/ strengthener in
breadmaking, and as a calcium source for reaction with alginates to form dessert gels. Also used as a
nutritional supplement
TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Store in well-closed containers. Reacts violently with aluminium when heated.
Mixtures with phosphorus ignite at high temperatures. When heated to decomposition, it emits toxic
fumes of SOx
SYNERGISTS: Alginates, ammonium chloride/ benzoyl peroxide/ dicalcium phosphate
LEGISLATION: USA: UK and EUROPE:
FDA GRAS if used in accordance Authorised without limitation
with GMP
Used in cottage cheese (5 g/kg); CANADA:
canned tomatoes (800 mg/kg); in GMP in alcoholic beverages.
specific vegetables GMP up to Used in deep-frozen apples
700 ppm. Also used in bakery (260 ppm) and dairy desserts
products (0.25% w/w flour), in (5000 ppm)
confections and frostings (3%),
1.3% in baked goods, in preserved AUSTRALIA/ PACIFIC RIM:
seafood (up to 700 ppm) and 0.35% Japan: GMP
in processed vegetables. Used in
canned milks and chocolate drinks
(up to 700 ppm) and in beverages
(700 ppm)
Calcium sulphate 827