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At 07:44 AM 4/19/95 -0700, Kristine Renee Penner wrote:

>...We had had a bag of xanthan gum for a while,
>and one time in the baking my mom felt like it smelled very strong, and
>things didn't turn out quite right.  We decided the xanthan gum was
>definitely spoiled.

I have been using xanthan gum for a number of years and haven't run into the
problem.I never have refrigerated it but have kept it in the original
plastic bottle it came in.
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