Chemical product used to remove color, whiten, or disinfect, often via oxidation.
1The company sold bleaching agents to big flour mills in Jiangsu and neighbouring Shandong and Anhui provinces.
2Objectives: This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of the professionally prescribed and nonprescription over-the-counter (OTC) bleaching agents.
3Once the chemistry of this change was understood, millers began using bleaching agents (azodicarbonamide, peroxide) to whiten flours.
4The bleaching agents most likely to have been used are oxalic, citric, or hydrochloric acid, bleaching powder solution, or acid sulphite of sodium.
5Bleaching agents, usually made from cornstarch, are added to flour to shorten the time needed for whitening.
Translations for bleaching agents