date:Oct 09, 2018
The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) is amending its food additive regulations in response to two food additive petitions to no longer allow for the use of a total of seven synthetic flavouring substances and flavour enhancers (adjuvants), of which one styrene is being delisted, because it is no longer used by the industry. The others include synthetically-derived benzophenone, ethyl acrylate, eugenyl methyl ether (methyl eugenol), myrcene, pulegone, and pyridine.
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