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FSIS removes three ingredients from prohibited substances list
Story Date: 3/8/2013
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Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 3/8/13
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations to remove sodium benzoate, sodium propionate and benzoic acid from the list of substances prohibited from meat and poultry products.
“FSIS will specify that sodium propionate (generally recognized as safe under 21 CFR 184.1784) may be used as an antimicrobial in various meat and poultry products in an amount not to exceed 0.5 percent (by weight of total formulation) when used alone,” the notice, published Thursday in the Federal Register, reads. “Sodium propionate is a direct food ingredient that must be labeled by its common or usual name in the ingredients statement of a product (21 CFR 101.4, 9 CFR 317.2(f), 381.118(a)).”
Additionally, when used as an antimicrobial, sodium benzoate (a direct food additive that must be labeled by its common or usual name in the ingredients statement of a product) now may be used in various meat and poultry products at up to 0.1 percent when used alone. Benzoic acid also is a generally recognized as safe direct food ingredient that can be used in various products at up to 0.1 percent.
In 2006, Kraft Foods Global, Inc. petitioned FSIS to amend the inspection regulations to allow the use of sodium benzoate and sodium propionate as acceptable antimicrobials to help inhibit Listeria in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.
The rule will become effective May 6.
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