Apr 23, 2008 11:01
16 yrs ago
English term

EC additives

English Marketing Livestock / Animal Husbandry Cat food
Context: Chicken (19%), chicken meal, brown rice, brewers rice, poultry meal, dried whole eggs, chicken fat, dried beet pulp, dried chicken, natural flavour, whole ground flaxseed, rice bran, tomato pomace, lecithin, salmon oil (source of DHA), salt, L-Lysine, DL-methionine, mannan-oligosaccharides, taurine, fructo-oligosaccharides, Yucca schidigera extracts, kelp meal, ginger extracts.

With antioxidant, preserved with EC additives

Question: Does it mean additives of vitamine E and vitaimine C?

Thank you in advance!

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EC-permitted additives

I would understand it as additives permitted by the EC (European Community), but I'm not at all sure that I'm right.
Peer comment(s):

agree Pnina
9 mins
agree Vicky Nash
26 mins
agree d_vachliot (X) : EC additive=European Community additive, was EEC (European Economic Community)>EC. The European Commission is irrelevant in this case.
26 mins
agree cmwilliams (X) : yes, I think EC = European Commission - http://www.food.gov.uk/consultations/consulteng/2002/ecaddit...
46 mins
agree Mehmet Hascan : EC (European Commission) - ii) Amendment of Schedule 4, para 2 (a) (iii) (bb) concerning .. http://archive.food.gov.uk/consultations/wales/feeding_stuff...
2 hrs
Yes, I always get mixed up between the European Community and the European Commission. It doesn't change the point though, which is that the additives have been permitted by the EC.
agree V_Nedkov
6 hrs
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47 mins

E-number food additives

Which are listed in the EC (European Commission) Directive, that permits the use of additives in the EU (European Union)
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