Terms Related to Food Additive

• Pharmaceutic Aids

  Substances which are of little or no therapeutic value, but are necessary in the manufacture, compounding, storage, etc., of pharmaceutical preparations or drug dosage forms. …

• Food Coloring Agents

  Natural or synthetic dyes used as coloring agents in processed foods.

• Food Adulteration

  The presence in food of harmful, unpalatable, or otherwise objectionable foreign substances, e.g. chemicals, microorganisms or diluents, before, during, or after processing or storage.

• Food Preservatives

  Substances capable of inhibiting, retarding or arresting the process of fermentation, acidification or other deterioration of foods.

• Food Inspection

  Examination of foods to assure wholesome and clean products free from unsafe microbes or chemical contamination, natural or added deleterious substances, and decomposition during production, …