INDIA TARGETS STANOLS AND TREHALOSE FOR NEW LABEL RULES
September 19th, 2013
INDIA is to amend food labelling regulations to require warnings about Plant Stanol Esters, which are cholesterol reducing agents, and also Trehalose, also known as Mycose or Tremalose, which is a source of glucose.Packets of dairy items, sauce, salad dressing, breakfast cereals, chocolates, sweets, soy and rice drinks, juices and nectars will soon have to specify the quantity of Plant Stanol Ester (as Plant Stanols) per 100 grammes or 100 millilitres in products.Labels will also need to carry a warning declaring: “Patients on cholesterol lowering medication, ...
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