Anticaking additive

Flo-Ever. [Ougfll/Salt] 99.95% Sodium chloride with anticaking additive. 

Top-Flo Evap Satt. [Catgiiq 99.85% NaQ with anticaking additive. 

Small particles, with their high surface/volume ratio, pick up water more readily and are especially liable to caking. Vacuum salts and potash, as suggested by Fig. 7.13, are therefore the most sensitive. They are frequently treated with an anticaking additive before shipping. The one most widely used is sodium ferrocyanide, or yellow prussiate of soda (YPS). By the nature of the addition process, YPS also tends to concentrate at the surfaces of the particles. Therefore, when a batch of treated salt is dissolved, the first brine formed has a high concentration of YPS. Rain also selectively removes YPS from the salt, and this is one reason not to store such salts in the open. 

Prior to shut down, switching to higher grade fuels for a week or so and increasing the use of soot blowers helps remove deposits from fireside surfaces. Additionally, fuel treatments such as combustion additives, slag modifiers, and anticaking agents may prove very useful. 

Anticaking agents -as food additives [FOOD ADDITIVES] (Vol 11) -silica as [SILICA - INTRODUCTION] (Vol21) -for sodium chloride [SODIUM COMPOUNDS - SOD IUMHALIDES - SODIUM CHLORIDE] (Vol22)... 

ANTTCAKING AGENTS. Some products, particularly food products that contain one or more hygroscopic substanoes, require the addition of an anticaking agent to inhibit formation of aggregates and lumps and thus retain tile free-flowing characteristic of the products Calcium phosphate, for example, is commonly used in instant breakfast drinks and lemonade and other soft-dnnk mixes. 

Aluminum is present naturally in tea and some vegetables. Aluminum is introduced into grain products and processed cheese from aluminum-containing food additives. These products are used as acidifiers, buffers, leavening agents, emulsifiers, stabilizers, thickeners, and anticaking agents. For example,... 

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. Specifications for Identity and Purity of Thickening Agents, Anticaking Agents, Antimicrobials, Antioxidants, and Emulsifiers. Rome, Italy FAO, UN 1978 59-71. 

One study has suggested that researchers looking for a connection between aluminium and Alzheimer s disease may have ignored the most important source of aluminium for the average person—foodstuffs that contain aluminium additives (36). The results implied that aluminium, added to such foods as anticaking agents, emulsifiers, thickeners, leaveners, and stabilizers, may have long-term adverse effects on health. However, the small sample size hampers any definitive conclusions, the odds ratios were very unstable, and the study had limited statistical power to rule out random errors. 

I Food additives that may be used as anticaking agents... 

Properties White powder. D 2.9. Insoluble in water. Hazard Irritating dust. TLV 10 mg/m3. Use in foods restricted to 5% in baking powder, 2% in table salt. Use Absorbent, antacid, filler for paper and paper coatings, cosmetics, food additive (anticaking agent), manufacture of glass and Portland cement. See dicalcium silicate. 

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