WASHINGTON — USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service is amending the federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations to remove sodium benzoate, sodium propionate, and benzoic acid from the list of substances that the regulations prohibit for use in meat or poultry products.
New uses of these substances in meat or poultry products will continue to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration for safety and by FSIS for suitability. FSIS will add approved uses of these substances to the list of approved substances contained in the agency's directive system.
Sodium propionate (generally recognized as safe under 21. . .
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