National Soft Drink Association

At least six specifications of standards for granulated sugar quaUty are appHcable ia the United States. These include Codex JUimentarius Food Chemicals Codex (ECC) (4), US. Pharmacopeia (USP) and National Formula (NE) (5), National Soft Drink Association (6), National Canners Association, and Mihtary Standard-900 for white sugar. These standards are intended to set limits on various components, including, but not necessarily limited to, polarization, invert or reducing sugar, ash, moisture, color, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, lead, and copper. 

Quality Spedfications and Test Procedures for Bottlers Granulated and Eiquid Sugar, National Soft Drink Association, Washington, D.C., 1975. 

Here are some figures on that subject from the FDA and National Soft Drink Association. A 5-oz cup of coffee averages 115 mg of caffeine, a 5-oz cup of tea 40 mg, a 6-oz soft drink 18 mg, a cup of cocoa 4 mg, and one ounce of chocolate syrup 4 mg. 

NSDA National Soft Drink Association OEI one essential ingredient... 

Memorandum of meeting. National Association of Soft Drink Manufacturers, Dec. 17, 1990. 

Carbonated soft drinks owe their fizz to the presence of carbonic acid. We think nothing of drinking this acid. Even so, one of the authors of this book was confronted with the statement our lawyers won t let us have acids in a shopping maU due to liability problems when he proposed to do some chemical demonstrations involving carbonic acid as part of an observance of National Chemistry Week activities. There s that association with danger again. 

In 1993,450 million lbs of postconsumer PET bottles including 40% of all carbonated soft-drink bottles were recycled in the USA. The 1993 recycling rate of plastic packaging was 6.9%, with PET at 28%. In 2009, the National Association of PET Container Resources found that the overall amount of recyclable PET bottles and glasses in the USA was about 2.34 x 10 kg in 1 year, whereas the recycled quantity was just about 6.53 x 10 kg which is 28% of the existing amount. 

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