Detection of 4-aminocarminic acid in beverages and cake glaze from the German market: a food additive not approved in the EU
| Autor: | Eva Lassek, Werner Höbel, Julia Pfister, Richard Klinger, Franziska Gaßmann, Nicholas Schramek, Holger Knapp, Uwe Wollein, Andreas Miller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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food.ingredient
Potassium Salt (chemistry) chemistry.chemical_element 010402 general chemistry 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine food Food Animals media_common.cataloged_instance Ammonium Food science European union media_common chemistry.chemical_classification Carminic acid Food additive Glaze 0104 chemical sciences Blowing a raspberry chemistry 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Biotechnology Nuclear chemistry |
| Zdroj: | Journal für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit. 11:127-135 |
| ISSN: | 1661-5867 1661-5751 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00003-015-1012-2 |
| Popis: | In the European Union, carminic acid and its ammonium, calcium, potassium or sodium salts and its aluminium lakes are approved as food additive E120. In beverages obtained from the German market 4-aminocarminic acid (“acid-stable carmine”) was detected by HPLC–PDA and LC–MS/MS. Isolation of the colorant from a liquid dye preparation used for the production of a beverage sample and subsequent NMR analysis confirmed the presence of 4-aminocarminic acid. Synthesis of 15N-4-aminocarminic acid clearly demonstrated that “acid-stable carmine” is not the ammonium salt of carminic acid, which is approved as food additive in the European Union. In fact, nitrogen in “acid-stable carmine” is covalently bound. The molecular structure of carminic acid is chemically modified and 4-aminocarminic acid does not comply with the specifications laid down for E120 in Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012. 4-Aminocarminic acid was also detected in the red-colored glaze of a raspberry cake and in the liquid dye preparation used for coloring this glaze. |
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