Considerations on the Analysis of E-900 Food Additive: An NMR Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Food additives are in widespread use in the food industry to extend the shelf life of food, improve its organoleptic characteristics or facilitate industrial processing. Their use is not without controversy, which makes regulation and control crucial for food safety and public health. Among food additives, silicone-based antifoaming agents (polysiloxanes or E900) are difficult to analyze and quantify due to their polymeric nature. Currently, there is no official method of quantifying this additive in foods. In this context, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a quantitative method for speciation analysis of silicon compounds almost without known interferents. In this work, we describe the evolution of the regulation of the E900 additive, discuss different analytic methods quantifying polyd

SUBMITTER: Palacios-Jordan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8833973 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature