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OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS
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... Actually, approval of the optional ingredients in enriched flour and bread in 1941 by the Committee on Food and Nutrition, predecessor of the present Board, was predicated on some legal complications concerning the use of the term "enriched" which had already risen at that time. Prior to inauguration of the systematic cereal enrichment program, farina "enriched" with vitamin D had been sold by the Quaker Oats Co., which later took exception to the cereal enrichment formula proposed by the Food and Drug Administration and took the matter to court.
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