Assertion: chlorite | /r/AtLocation | foodstuff
Facets:
value: as a defoliant, desiccant
type: MANNER
value: as fungicide
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Chlorine dioxide, chlorite and chlorate may occur in foodstuffs as a result of their use in flour processing, as a decolorizing agent for carotenoids and other natural pigments (chlorine dioxide), as a bleaching agent in the preparation of modified food starch (sodium chlorite), as an indirect additive in paper and paperboard products used for food packaging (sodium chlorite) and as a defoliant, desiccant and fungicide in agriculture (sodium chlorate) (U.S. EPA, 1983; CMA, 1989; U.S. FDA, 1990).