ANNEXU.K. Specifications of the novel chewing gum base
Description U.K.
The novel food ingredient is a synthetic polymer (Patent number WO2006016179). It has a white to off-white colour.
It consists of branched polymers of monomethoxypolyethylene glycol (MPEG) grafted onto polyisoprene-graft-maleic anhydride (PIP-g-MA), and unreacted MPEG (less than 35 % by weight).
CAS No 1246080-53-4
Molecular structure of MPEG grafted PIP-g-MA U.K.
| Characterisitics of 1,3-butadiene, 2-methyl-homopolymer, maleated, esters with polyethylene glycol mono-Me ether/CAS No 1246080-53-4 | |
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| Moisture | less than 5 % |
| Aluminium | less than 3 mg/kg |
| Lithium | less than 0,5 mg/kg |
| Nickel | less than 0,5 mg/kg |
| Residual anhydride | less than 15 μmol/g |
| Polydispersity index | less than 1,4 |
| Isoprene | less than 0,05 mg/kg |
| Ethylene oxide | less than 0,2 mg/kg |
| Free maleic anhydride | less than 0,1 % |
| Total oligomeres (less than 1 000 Dalton) | not more than 50 mg/kg |
| Ethylene glycol | less than 200 mg/kg |
| Diethylene glycol | less than 30 mg/kg |
| Monoethylene glycol methyl ether | less than 3 mg/kg |
| Diethylene glycol methyl ether | less than 4 mg/kg |
| Triethylene glycol methyl ether | less than 7 mg/kg |
| 1,4-Dioxane | less than 2 mg/kg |
| Formaldehyde | less than 10 mg/kg |