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Guidance for the use of oils as ingredient substitutions

UK

Jun 07, 2022

The Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland are updating consumers and businesses about refined or fully refined food grade vegetable oils that may be being used instead of sunflower oil in some food products, despite them being labelled as containing sunflower oil.

This update adds fully refined corn (maize) oil to previously issued advice to consumers that refined rapeseed oil, fully refined palm oil, fully refined coconut oil and fully refined soyabean oil  may be used  to replace sunflower oil in some products temporarily without  this being reflected on labelling.

 

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