Anderson D M, Douglas D M, Morrison N A, Wang W P
Chemistry Department, The University, Edinburgh, U.K.
Food Addit Contam. 1990 May-Jun;7(3):303-21. doi: 10.1080/02652039009373896.
The regulatory specifications for gum arabic (Acacia senegal) are superficial and inadequate to ensure that it is not adulterated with non-permitted gums from other botanical sources. Moreover, the existing specifications do not give the consumer the essential assurance, fundamental to food safety evaluation principles, that the nature and quality of gum arabic used in foodstuffs always conforms to that of the Test Article selected for the toxicological studies which justified the current status ('ADI not specified') of gum arabic as a permitted food additive. The availability of well-preserved gum arabic samples, collected between 1904 and 1939, has enabled invaluable data to be added to those derived from samples from the most recent crops. The resulting analytical data substantiate and greatly extend the quantitative information available previously for the chemical characterization of gum arabic for regulatory and trade purposes. The data confirm that good-quality commercial gum arabic was used previously as the Test Article. There is no evidence that the specific rotation of gum arabic has become significantly less negative in recent years.
阿拉伯胶（阿拉伯金合欢）的监管规范较为表面且不充分，无法确保其未被来自其他植物来源的非许可胶类掺假。此外，现有规范未给予消费者食品安全评估原则中至关重要的保证，即食品中使用的阿拉伯胶的性质和质量始终符合为毒理学研究所选测试物品的性质和质量，正是这些毒理学研究证明了阿拉伯胶作为许可食品添加剂的当前状态（“未指定每日允许摄入量”）。1904年至1939年间收集的保存完好的阿拉伯胶样品，使人们能够在来自最新作物样品的数据基础上增添宝贵数据。由此产生的分析数据证实并极大地扩展了先前可用于阿拉伯胶化学特征定量分析的信息，以用于监管和贸易目的。数据证实，先前使用的优质商业阿拉伯胶作为测试物品。没有证据表明近年来阿拉伯胶的比旋光度显著降低。
