Food Additives

Food additives are any substance added to food that works on changing any of its features. In other words, they are substances deliberately added to a food at any of its stages from production to consumption in order to conserve and maintain sensual and natural properties.

The Laboratory analyzes numerous food additives that include:

• Food and juice preservatives
• Industrial  food coloring
• Sulfur dioxide in dried fruit
• Oxidation additives in oils
• Sudan dyes
• Nitrates.