Natamycin Natural foodpreservative
Product introduction
Also named Pimaricin, natamycin is an abroad-spectrum antifungalpolyene produced by Streptomyces natalensis. It has been used as aneffective food preservative for inhibition of yeasts and molds withsafety and reliability. It will not affect the flavor of foods.Since natamycin cannot inhibit bacteria, there will be nointerference on the natural mature progress of yogurt and cheese,ham, sausage.
Codes
CAS[7681-93-8], INS235, E235, CFR: 2lCFR172.155
Quality Standard
Item | Specification USP |
Appearance | White to yellow-white, crystalline powder |
Content | ≥95% |
Loss on drying | ≤8.0% |
PH value | 5.0-7.5 |
Heavy metals | ≤10ppm |
Lead | ≤2ppm |
Arsenic | Less than 2ppm |
Mercury | Less than 1ppm |
Total colony count | ≤100/g |
E. coli | Not detected |
Salmonella sp | Not detected |
Listeria monocytogenes | Not detected |
Regulation
In Code of FDA: 2lCFR172.155, DAI of natamycin is 0.3mg/kg.
Advantage
(1)To prolong the shelf life of food treated.
(2)Very low dosage.
(3)Natamycin does not affect the flavor of foods
(4)Natamycin will not penetrate into the food, only be on thesurface of food when it was used on the surface of food.
(5)Natamycin can be used under the condition of wide range of pHvalue
(6)To inhibit the fungi toxin
Applications
Usage | Effect |
Cheese | Inhibit the growing of adverse mould; promote the growing andmetabolism of functioning fungus. |
Meat | Effectively avoid the mould, especially to dried sausage |
Baked food | Effectively avoid mould, extend their shelf-life and maintainthe original taste of food |
Drinks | Kill the mould and yeast; effectively avoid juice from gettingsour. The shelf life of juice can be extended. |
Fruit | Effectively prevent the fruit goes bad |
Miscellaneous | Prevent mould of jam, jelly, marinated food, fish, chicken,man-made butter. |
Packaging
100g x 50 bottles/carton, 500g x 10 bottles/carton,10kg/drum
Storage
Sealed keeping in cool place where there is no direct sunshineexposure and the temperature is below 25C°
Caution
The stability of natamycin can be greatly affected by PH value,temperature, daylight, oxidant and heavy metal content. So weshould keep natamycin away from Oxides and Sulfur hydridecompounds. Avoid keeping natamycin under high temperature or directsunshine.
