Food Additives Carmine Cochineal and Carmine Cochineal Aluminum Lake

National Food Safety Standard of the P.R.C.: Food Additives Carmine Cochineal.

This standard applies to food additives Carmine Cochineal, it includes Cochineal extract that is the concentrated solution obtained after removing the alcohol (ethanol and/or methanol) from an aqueous, aqueous alcoholic or alcoholic extract of cochineal, and/or Carmines that is obtained by a hydrated aluminium chelate of in aqueous extraction of cochineal. It also specifies the technical requirements and detection methods for food additives Carmine Cochineal.