Too much acrylamide in chips?

12 January 2018

With the new Regulation on acrylamide applicable in the EU from April 11, 2018, the food industry is still a long way off the new benchmark levels referred to in the legislation. Recent laboratory tests conducted by «il Salvagente», an Italian consumer magazine and member of the NGO SAFE – Safe Food Advocacy Europe, triggered
a red flag: seven out of the eighteen analysed samples of potato crisps showed the presence of acrylamide clearly above the new benchmark level set by the European Union’s legislation.