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olestra

This product is white crystalline powder, odorless ,slightly bitter, has a good adsorption grease performance .

It can absorb fat and cholesterol in the intestinal safely without absorbed by metabolism of the body .It has a laudatory name, called “instestinal scavenger”.

It can be used in high –grade cosmetics ,and has no stimulation to skin and eyes ,It is a good additive for baby and pregnant women’s cleaning supplies ,and it is also a good kind of fat absorption stop agent .

Olestra, as identified in this section, may be safely used in accordance with the following conditions:

(a) Olestra is a mixture of octa-, hepta-, and hexa-esters of sucrose with fatty acids derived from edible fats and oils or fatty acid sources that are generally recognized as safe or approved for use as food ingredients. The chain lengths of the fatty acids are no less than 12 carbon atoms.

(b) Olestra may be used in place of fats and oils in prepackaged ready-to-eat savory (i.e., salty or piquant but not sweet) snacks and prepackaged, unpopped popcorn kernels that are ready-to-heat. In such foods, the additive may be used in place of fats and oils for frying or baking, in dough conditioners, in sprays, in filling ingredients, or in flavors.

(c) To compensate for any interference with absorption of fat soluble vitamins, the following vitamins shall be added to foods containing olestra: 1.9 milligrams alpha-tocopherol equivalents per gram olestra; 51 retinol equivalents per gram olestra (as retinyl acetate or retinyl palmitate); 12 IU vitamin D per gram olestra; and 8 μg vitamin K1per gram olestra.