FOOD 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Food Additive, Food Preservation, Quality Control
4 Aug 2018
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Food additives are used to maintain or improve the quality of food. They are used to achieve different purposes and their use is highly regulated and controlled by law. This unit focuses on substances, which may not necessarily be found in large quantities in food products. Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to: Identify the chemical and instrumental modes of analysis for food constituents: define the steps in proximate analysis, differentiate food additives from major food components, construct nutritional labels. Food additives have been used for thousands of years, the earliest was smoke, used to preserve meat and fish. The romans used sulphites to preserve their wines and salt to cure pork and fish. Legal definition for food additives: canadian food regulations define a food additive as. In canada food additives are regulated under division 16 of the food and drug regulations.
