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Food Grade Yellow Beeswax Pellets
Unit Weight in kg: 1
Description
Our food grade yellow beeswax CN-1348-P fully complies with the specification for E901.
It is most commonly used as a glazing agent on jellied sweets, soft gels and capsules in combination with other waxes such as Carnauba wax and vegetable oils.
All deliveries are accompanied by a Certificate of Analysis.
It is available in yellow pellets, with a fine-grained, matt, non-crystalline fracture; it becomes soft and pliable when warmed by hand.
Odour is faint and characteristic of honey. Relative density, about 0.96.
This wax is practically insoluble in water; partially soluble in hot ethanol (90%) and in ether; completely soluble in fatty and essential oils.
Specification
- Food Additive number
- E901
- Format
- Pellets
- Drop point, °C
- 61 – 66
- Saponification value, mg KOH/g
- 87 – 104
- Acid value, mg KOH/g
- 17 – 24
- Ester value, mg KOH/g
- 70 – 80
- Peroxide value, mM H2O2/kg
- 5 max
- Test for ceresin, paraffin and certain other waxes
- Pass
- Test for glycerol and other polyols
- Pass
- Test for fats, Japan wax, rosin and soaps
- Pass
- Lead, ppm, EU 231/2012
- < 3.0
- Cadmium, ppm, DIN EN ISO1 7294-2
- < 1.0
- Arsenic, ppm, DIN EN ISO1 7294-2
- < 1.0