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Ashland’s Fine Ingredients Division authorized North American distribution for acesulfame-K
Ashland Distribution Company’s Fine Ingredients Division, Dublin, Ohio, in July was named authorized distributor throughout North America for the Totowa, N.J.-based JRS International, Inc.’s synthetic, calorie-free, high potency sweetener, Acesulfame Potassium, also known as Acesulfame-K. Discovered in 1967 in Germany, acesulfame-K is currently approved for use in 90 countries. Its benefits…