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LEGISLATION:<br />

USA:<br />

GRAS by US FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology)<br />

FDA requires on label “Excess consumption may have a laxative effect”<br />

GRAS by USFDA US<br />

CFR 21<br />

PART 100 – General<br />

Subpart G ® Specific Administrative Rulings and Decisions<br />

100.130 Combinations of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners in “diet beverages”.<br />

(4) To avoid confusion by diabetics, the label of a beverage containing sorbitol, mannitol, or other hexitol, must bear the statement “Contains<br />

carbohydrates, not for use by diabetics without advice of a physician”. To further avoid confusion of these beverages with those sweetened solely with<br />

nonnutritive artificial sweeteners which have been marketed in containers bearing prominent statements such as “sugar free”, “sugarless”, or “no sugar”,<br />

the labels of beverages containing hexitols must not bear these or similar statements.<br />

CFR 21<br />

Part 182<br />

182.90 Substances migrating to food from paper and paperboard products.<br />

Substances migrating to food from paper and paperboard products used in food packaging that are generally recognized as safe for their intended use,<br />

within the meaning of section 409 of the Act, are as follows: Alum (double sulfate of aluminum and ammonium potassium, or sodium). Aluminum<br />

hydroxide. Aluminum oleate. Aluminum palmitate. Casein. Cellulose acetate. Cornstarch. Diatomaceous earth filler. Ethyl cellulose. Ethyl vanillin.<br />

Glycerin. Oleic acid. Potassium sorbate. Silicon dioxides. Sodium aluminate. Sodium chloride. Sodium hexametaphosphate. Sodium hydrosulfite. Sodium<br />

phosphoaluminate. Sodium silicate. Sodium sorbate. Sodium tripolyphosphate. Sorbitol. Soy protein, isolated. Starch, acid modified. Starch,<br />

pregelatinized. Starch, unmodified. Talc. Vanillin. Zinc hydrosulfite. Zinc sulfate.<br />

[42 FR 14640, Mar. 15, 1977]<br />

CFR 21<br />

PART 184 ® DIRECT FOOD SUBSTANCES AFFIRMED AS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED AS SAFE<br />

Subpart B ® Listing of Specific Substances Affirmed as GRAS<br />

184.1835 Sorbitol.<br />

(a) Sorbitol is the chemical 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexanehexol (C6H14O6), a hexahydric alcohol, differing from mannitol principally by having a different optical<br />

rotation. Sorbitol is produced by the electrolytic reduction, or the transition metal catalytic hydrogenation of sugar solutions containing glucose or<br />

fructose.<br />

Sorbitol 977

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