Barb,
You might want to consider contacting DSM formerly (Roche) in Parsippany, New Jersey. They have manufactured vitamins and carotenoids for over 50 years. I don't have a phone number but their web site is www.nutraaccess.com
I'm not in my office at the moment. If you have the show directory from the Boston Seafood Show or from last year's West Coat Seafood Show, I think a contact is listed. DSM has had a booth at both of these shows. Last year DSM distributed an excellently illustrated, 42-page, index tabbed publication, "Salmon Buying & Merchandising Guide", A Handy Manual for Purveyors and Sellers of Seafood. (I think the pub code is DSM10-0009; it's the only code on the book next to the 2005 copyright.)
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Pamela Tom
University of California
Food Science & Technology Dept.
One Shields Avenue
Davis. California 95616 USA
Web: seafood.ucdavis.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: "Barbara Blakistone" <bblakistone@nfi.org>
To: "seafood@ucdavis.edu" <seafood@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: 10/6/06 6:57 AM
Subject: canthaxanthin and astaxanthin
NFI has heard that canthaxanthin is under debate by Codex as to its
acceptable use as a food additive. (At issue is its low Acceptable
Daily Intake.) Can anyone comment briefly on its use in the seafood
industry? Is it an important additive in the U.S.? Would the industry
be negatively impacted if Codex were to disapprove canthaxanthin's use?
Thanks.
Barbara
Barbara Blakistone, Ph.D.
Director, Technical and Regulatory Affairs
National Fisheries Institute
McLean, VA
703-752-88
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