Tag: artificial flavoring
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EU Publishes List of Authorized Flavorings for Food Use
The European Commission has published its list of flavoring substances authorized for use in foods. Effective October 22, 2012, Regulation EU 872/2012 provides a roster of more than 2,500 substances evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and deemed safe for human food uses, while Regulation EU 873/2012 establishes transitional measures for other flavorings,…
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EU Member States Endorse New List of Flavoring Substances
During a recent meeting of the European Union’s (EU’s) Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, EU member states reportedly endorsed a European Commission proposal to establish a new list of permitted flavoring substances for food products. The committee also approved a transitional measure on other flavorings, including those made from non-food sources.…
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OEHHA Considers Adding Flavorings to Prop. 65 List
California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has proposed adding two food and beverage flavorings, as well as a fungicide and an herbicide contaminant to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Prop. 65).Comments are requested by April…
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False Advertising Case Against Cereal Maker Dismissed with Leave to Amend
A federal court in California has reportedly dismissed without prejudice putative class claims filed against General Mills Inc. alleging that the company falsely conveyed to consumers that its Total Blueberry Pomegranate® cereal product contained real fruit. Dvora v. Gen. Mills Inc., No. 11-1074 (C.D. Cal., dismissed May 16, 2011). According to a news source, the…
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Cheese Maker Seeks to Recover Losses for Foul-Tasting Product
A Minnesota company that produces cheese has filed a complaint in federal court against an ingredients and flavorings company, alleging that it supplied a flavoring ingredient with phenolic compounds that “caused the cheese in which it was used to have a taste repugnant to certain of the customers who consumed the cheese.” Bongards’ Creameries v. Kerry…
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Raffi Khatchadourian, “The Taste Makers,” The New Yorker, November 23, 2009
“Flavor chemicals often make up less than one percent of the ingredients in processed foods, and many flavorists regard the terms ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ as largely meaningless—an indulgence for consumers who happen to believe that one is more likely to be toxic than another, even if the perception is not necessarily true,” writes The New…