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Food and feed additives are substances that are added to food to maintain or improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, or appearance of food or feed. Some food additives have been in use for centuries for preservation – such as salt (in meats such as bacon or dried fish), sugar (in marmalade), or sulfur dioxide (in wine). Food additives can be derived from plants, animals, or minerals, or they can be synthetic. They are added intentionally to food to perform certain technological purposes which consumers often take for granted. Feed additives are products used in animal nutrition to achieve an effect on the feed itself, on the animals, on food products obtained from the animals consuming the feed additive, or on the environment. For instance, feed additives are used to enhance flavor of feed, meet the need for certain nutrients or increase the performance of animals in good health. They are used in feed for food-producing animals and in pet food. Feed additives include te... [详细介绍]