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Foreword
This standard replaces GB 1905-2000 “Food additive Sorbic acid”.
Compared with GB 1905-2000, the major changes of this standard are as follows:
——the name of this standard has been revised to “National food safety standard Food additive Sorbic acid”;
——the appearance has been revised to “white or off-white powder or granule” from “white crystalline powder”
——the content of sorbic acid (on dry basis) has been revised to “≥99.0%” from “99.0%~101.0%”;
——the aldehyde indicator has been added;
——the arsenic indicator has been deleted;
——the heavy metal indicator has been replaced by lead indicator.