Process Contaminants in Food

Information on Ethyl Carbamate (Urethane) in Foods and Beverages

Ethyl Carbamate Preventative Action Manual

The Ethyl Carbamate Preventative Action Manual was prepared and presented to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to an FDA request that the Wine Industry update the information available on how to reduce ethyl carbamate in wine by modifying agricultural and winemaking practices.

The FDA is making this information available with the permission of the authors as a service to assist interested wineries in identifying control measures the industry has suggested they may implement to reduce ethyl carbamate in their wines. The FDA is not specifically endorsing and has not verified the information contained in the document.

Questions about the information in the document should be addressed to the authors. Infomation about the Faculty and Staff of the Department of Viticulture & Enology at at the University of California, Davis, is available on-line.

The Ethyl Carbamate Preventative Action Manual is available in either English or Italian in hypertext (HTML) format, or in English in Portable Document (PDF) format. PDF documents require Acrobat Reader software that is free from Adobe, Inc. and may be downloaded from the Web.

• Ethyl Carbamate Preventative Action Manual: English Language Version, HTML format
• Ethyl Carbamate Preventative Action Manual: Italian Language Version, HTML format
• Ethyl Carbamate Preventative Action Manual: English Language Version, PDF format