SC - Food Grade?

[Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg]

It also applies to non-food items like plastic bags and containers.
This is why you should never use garbage bags for anything else.
Raoghnailt
Stan Wyrm, Artemisia
rygbee at montana.com
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Anne-Marie Rousseau <acrouss at gte.net>
To: <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 9:03 a.m.
Subject: Re: SC - Food Grade?


> Hi all from Anne-Marie
>
> Christianna asks us:At 10:49 AM 6/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > I have a question for the oh-so-knowlegable assemblage.  I am trying to
> >define the term "Food Grade".  I wouldn't think it was so hard, but so
> >far, I'm having no luck.  We have discussed the regulations about how
> >many bug parts per million and the GRAS list, but I can't seem to narrow
> >in on what Food Grade means.
>
> as far as I know, "food grade" means a substance made in compliance with
> the regs for foodstuffs, ie no wierd extracting processes, the facilities
> needs to be up to spec, cant have sprayed the plants with certain
> chemicals, etc.
>
> This is especially applicable in spices and such...some places, like
> Tsingtsingmomo here in Seattle, sell stuff for incense and such and so
> their stuff isnt neccessarily foodgrade. not that it will definately kill
> you, but still something to keep in mind.
>
> the same applies to gelatins, gold leaf etc...sometimes its made for food
> and sometimes its not. I understand that the non food grade gold leaf can
> be cut with all kinds of nasty metals.
>
> --AM
>
>
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