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