Dytiscidae (predaceous water beetles) is one of the largest and most commonly encountered groups of aquatic beetles. Both adults and larvae are predaceous, and will attack a wide variety of small aquatic organisms. Although most species are small to medium sized, some adults can attain a length of 35 mm. (Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. 2004. Family Dytiscidae. https://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/WfHC/Dytiscidae/index.html)
Food additive means any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself and not normally used as a typical ingredient of the food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological (including organoleptic) purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, (directly or indirectly) in it or its byproducts becoming a component of or otherwise affecting the characteristics of such foods. The term does not include “contaminants” or substances added to food for maintaining or improving nutritional qualities. (FAO and WHO. 2023. Codex Alimentarius Commission Procedural Manual. Twenty-eighth edition, revised. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc5042en)
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Agents added to foods during manufacture and intended to remain in them. The term does not include contaminants or substances added to food for maintaining or improving nutritional qualities.
Platypus is a genus of ambrosia beetle in the subfamily Platypodinae of the weevil family Curculionidae. (Wikipedia. 2025. Platypus (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_(disambiguation))
Non-fluid colloidal network or polymer network that is expanded throughout its whole volume by a fluid. ('gel' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.G02600)
