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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Sequestrants 832<br />

FOOD SAFETY ISSUES: Very low levels of toxicity. Digested and metabolised normally by the body. Citrates are normal<br />

constituents of many foods; they are present in far higher amounts in the body than amounts added to<br />

processed foods. May cause severe eye and moderate skin irritation<br />

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

FDA GRAS with no limitations if Authorised without limitation – GMP<br />

used in accordance with GMP Finland: 1000 ppm quick-frozen fruit.<br />

Citric acid – single or mixed 3 g/l in fruit juices<br />

with antioxidants (100 ppm)<br />

CANADA:<br />

Meat Inspection Division –<br />

Citric acid – GMP<br />

0.01% in shortening/lard. 0.01%<br />

in fats and oils; 0.003% in dry AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC RIM:<br />

sausage/dried meat Japan: GMP<br />

REFERENCE: Bouchard, E. F., and Merrit, E. G. (1979) Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Toxicology, Volume<br />

6, pp. 150–179.

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