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PREFERRED TERM

void:inDataset: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Created: 1981-01-09T00:00:00Z

skos:notation: 3011

food additives  

DEFINITION

  • 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 by-products 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.

    Created: 10/10/18

    (en)

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  • Agents added to foods during manufacture and intended to remain in them (en)

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http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3011

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