E326 Potassium lactate — is it halal?

Description

Potassium lactate — a salt of lactic acid. The acid comes from carbohydrate fermentation or synthesis (c1–c18, see E270); possible links of the shared routes — milk, meat and fish media, a cattle gene, alcohols, waste, glycerol, shells (c2, c5–c8, c11, c13–c18). The salt — by neutralising with potassium hydroxide (c19); the Chinese standard tests for methanol and its ester (c20); carbon (c21), extraction (c22).

Names: Лактат калия · Potassium lactate · لاكتات البوتاسيوم

Also known as: E 326, INS 326, Potassium lactate solution, Potassium 2-hydroxypropanoate, Калий молочнокислый, 乳酸钾, لاكتات البوتاسيوم

Category: Acidity regulators

Regulatory source: EU 1333/2008

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