Draft Stevia standard issued by USP

The United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) has issued the draft of new ingredient treatment standard of food ingredient Pharmacopoeia (FCC) The new draft, which includes probiotics, stevia, benzoate, infant formula and flavor ingredients, is currently seeking industry input FCC is a summary of component patents and testing to ensure the quality, purity and safety of products, covering more than 1100 food ingredients USP is responsible for developing these standards and issuing FCC abstracts For the new standard of probiotics, USP indicates that consumers have a strong demand for probiotics, and the new application of probiotics also promotes the development of probiotics standard in FCC appendix For the new standard of stevioside, USP indicates that stevioside extracted from Stevia leaves has a variety of configurations and has been increasingly used in food and beverage products Although the monograph of labodioside a has been developed before, the new standard has also been extended to other stevioside configurations An important part of the new standard is about the identification of all nine stevioside separation and detection methods The draft has been released online, and the consultation will end on March 31.