# Commission Implementing Decision of 3 August 2012 authorising the placing on the market of a novel chewing gum base as a novel food ingredient under Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Implementing Decision 2011/882/EU (notified under document C(2012) 5406) (Only the English text is authentic) (2012/461/EU), Division: Description

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The novel food ingredient is a synthetic polymer (Patent number WO2006016179). It has a white to off-white colour.
It consists of branched polymers of monomethoxypolyethylene glycol (MPEG) grafted onto polyisoprene-graft-maleic anhydride (PIP-g-MA), and unreacted MPEG (less than 35 % by weight).
CAS No 1246080-53-4

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/461/annex/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-461/annex/division-1
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