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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10413
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/food

New natural sweetener soon to be approved

Brussels, 06/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - From next year, products containing natural sweetener steviol glycoside, which is extracted from a Paraguayan plant, could be legally marketed on the EU market. The EU's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health approved the proposal from the European Commission on 5 July to allow the use of this sweetener in several types of foodstuffs, such as low calorie drinks. In its opinion of 10 March 2010, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)...

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