{"id":6561,"date":"2017-07-07T05:27:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2017-07-07T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T05:27:18","slug":"fda-green-lights-spirulina-extract-as-egg-shell-color-additive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/fda-green-lights-spirulina-extract-as-egg-shell-color-additive.html","title":{"rendered":"FDA Green Lights Spirulina Extract as Egg Shell Color Additive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FDA has given approval for the use of spirulina extract as a colour additive for hard boiled shell eggs. The announcement follows a petition filed by McCormick &amp; Company, Inc.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5661 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Organic_Spirulina_Algae_Phycocyanin_Powder.jpg_350x350-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Organic_Spirulina_Algae_Phycocyanin_Powder.jpg_350x350-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Organic_Spirulina_Algae_Phycocyanin_Powder.jpg_350x350-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Organic_Spirulina_Algae_Phycocyanin_Powder.jpg_350x350-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The company intends to sell the extract as a blue powder in packets to its consumers. The powder is produced by filtered aqueous extraction of the blue green algae <em>Arthrospira platensis (Spirulina platensis).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agra-net.com\/agra\/food-chemical-news\/food-safety\/additives-processing-agents\/fda-green-lights-spirulina-extract-as-egg-shell-color-additive-555540.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDA has given approval for the use of spirulina extract as a colour additive for hard boiled shell eggs. The announcement follows a petition filed by McCormick &amp; Company, Inc. The company intends to sell the extract as a blue powder in packets to its consumers. The powder is produced by filtered aqueous extraction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,546,572],"tags":[545,554,126,638,489],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-for-food","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-algae-pigments","tag-algae-nutraceuticals","tag-algae-products","tag-food","tag-phycocyanin","tag-spirulina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}