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  "functional_class": "Glazing agent",
  "summary": "Shellac is the glaze on many sweets, chocolate coatings and coated fruit, and the coating on many tablets. It is a resin secreted by the lac insect and is not vegan; whether it is vegetarian is contested, because insects are killed during harvesting.",
  "derivation_summary": "Scraped from tree branches as the secretion of the lac insect, Kerria lacca, in India and Thailand, then washed, filtered and bleached. Insect fragments are removed during refining but the raw material is an insect product.",
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      "source": "openfoodtox"
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