In order to guarantee the quality of the ingredients in popular food, Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) has already started to update the food standard, including krill oil and steviosides. The FCC is internationally recognized as food composition quality standards, which is issued by the United States pharmacopoeia (USP).

　According to USP global leaders of science and standards, it requires the dedication from the entire global food supply chain to ensure the quality of the food ingredients. It’s not only a responsible business attitude; but more importantly, it is crucial to the health of all consumers. The identification, quality and purity standards of the released ingredients help the finished product manufacturers to purchase high-quality ingredients and use them into their final products, and they also ensure that the ingredients can meet the manufacturers’ expectation. It is very important all food ingredients as a whole, especially to those high value-added ingredients such as krill oil and steviosides. At present, the FCC has already begun to make new standards for some new ingredients.

　Steviosides:

　FCC initially put forward the revision of the steviasides standard in December, 2011.  They received a lot of comments after that and then they came out with an easier method to separate and test all nine steviol glycoside in stevia leaves. USP has a monography on high purity Rebaudiodside A. Different kinds of steviosides products and steviosides mixtures have been used in a lot of products now. Researches show that the most critical task for the stevia manufacturers is to ensure the source of stevia raw material. Latest FCC suggests them use two new USP reference standards “Rebaudioside A and stevioside system analysis” to identify and monitor the unique stevia glycoside content.