Flavorings are a major category of ingredients intentionally added to food and feeding stuff. Flavoring are concentrated preparations with the primary purpose it impart flavor except for substances that have an exclusively sweet, sour or salty taste.
Flavoring may contain flavoring substances, flavoring preparation, process flavorings smoke flavorings and flavoring adjuvants.
Flavoring substance means a chemically-defined compound with flavoring properties which is obtained:
*By chemical synthesis or isolated by chemical processes and which is chemically identical to a substance naturally present in material of vegetable or animal origin
*By chemical synthesis but which not chemical identical to a substance naturally present in material of vegetable or animal origin.
Flavoring properties are those which are predominantly odor-producing and which may also affect the taste.
Flavoring substances may be authorized provided they present no risk to the health of the consumer and their use does not mislead the consumer.
They must be subjected to appropriate toxicological evaluation; for those substances consisting of or containing GM organisms the evaluation must take account of environmental safety.
The vast majority of flavoring substances are used in quantities that are measured as ppb, In order to achieve the desired flavor impact, most commercial flavorings contain at least some flavoring substances.
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