Food additives other than colours and sweeteners

The ESC approved the proposal subject to the following amendments. The Commission was invited to choose a more meaningful name than ‘alternatively refined carrageenan’. This name should be totally different from carrageenan E407 in order to avoid any confusion. The ESC suggested ‘Eucheuma Gum’ as a possibility. In addition, the E number should be clearly different from that used for carrageenan; the ESC proposed E408.