Sorbic acid for Skin

Besides An Essential Skin Care Ingredient, Sorbic acid Can Do More!

• 2025-10-09
  

  Potassium Sorbate in Food: Safety, Uses, and Alternatives

  Potassium sorbate is the potassium salt of sorbic acid, widely used in the food industry as a preservative. It inhibits molds, yeasts, and certain bacteria, thus extending the shelf life of many products such as cheese, baked goods, sauces, and beverages.
  Potassium Sorbate
• 2025-07-03
  

  Argentina Revises Food Code With New Rules for Additives and Labeling Standards

  Additives for Dried Fruits: The new rules allow the surface treatment of dried fruits, including plums, with substances like sorbic acid (INS 200) or potassium sorbate (INS 202), limiting residual content to 100 mg/kg for whole fruits and 1,000 mg/kg for softened fruits. Other permitted additives include glucose syrups, high oleic sunflower oil, and rice flour, with specific concentration limits. The outdated Article 911 has been repealed.
• 2024-11-26
  

  15 Products Exceed Standards! South Korea Recalls and Destroys, Strict Food Safety Inspections

  3.DANDONG SHENGHAI FOODSTUFF CO.,LTD. The content of preservative (sorbic acid) in the frozen boiled clams produced by mala sauce exceeded the standard, and the measured value was 0.0052 g/kg.
• 2024-06-26
  

  Tainted Spread Dairy Product Fails to Meet Taiwan's Food Safety Standards

  In the detailed inspection, the batch of spreadable cheese was found to contain the preservative sorbic acid at a concentration as high as 2 g/kg. However, according to Taiwan's "Standards for the Use and Limitation of Food Additives," the use of preservatives in spreadable cheese should be controlled at or below 1.0 g/kg, calculated as sorbic acid. Clearly, the preservative content in this batch of spreadable cheese significantly exceeded the standard range, and therefore failed to comply with the provisions of Article 18 of the Food Safety and Sanitation Management Act.
• 2024-06-04
  

  Imported Sour Pickles Found to Contain Illegal Preservatives

  The kimchi in question was reportedly manufactured by SAMGAK FMC and imported by ISAAC Food Co. LTD., both companies based in South Korea and Taiwan respectively. Analysis revealed that the sorbic acid content in these pickles exceeded the permissible limit of 0.25 g/kg as stipulated by Taiwan's food additive regulations.
• 2024-05-13
  

  Recent Violations of Chinese Food Exports to South Korea in May 2024

  One of the reported violations involved the export of Black Sesame Mooncakes by Dunhua Xuemei Food Co., Ltd. These mooncakes were found to contain excessive levels of preservatives, specifically sorbic acid, exceeding the permissible limit of 0.005 g/kg. Similarly, another batch of mooncakes, the Perilla Honey Mooncakes, also produced by Dunhua Xuemei Food Co., Ltd., exceeded the allowed limit of dehydroacetic acid, another preservative, with a concentration of 0.002 g/kg.