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Tag: Acrylamide

  • Acrylamide: A new study reveals the probability of carcinogenic exposure in baby foods

    29 Mar 2022

    Acrylamide is a heated-induced toxicant generated by a chemical reaction that reduces sugar and amino acids present in foods. Most industrial and cooking methods induce the formati...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Cancer, Children, Consumers, European Commission

  • Acrylamide in food: the urgent need to reform the current legislation

    10 Mar 2022

    Acrylamide is a chemical compound generated during high-temperature cooking processes that transform sugar and amino acids present in food products. For many years the scientific c...

    Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA, European Commission, Food Safety

  • European Parliament supports objections on E171 and Acrylamide

    08 Oct 2020

    On 7 October 2020, the plenary session of the European Parliament supported two objections opposing two Commission regulation on E171 (Titanium Dioxide in food) and acrylamide. Thi...

    Tags: Acrylamide, E171, European Parliament, titanium dioxide

  • MEPs call for lower maximum levels of acrylamide in food products for infants and young children

    29 Sep 2020

    MEPs of the ENVI Committee (@EP_Environment on Twitter) voted in favour (53 votes in favour, 26 against, 2 abstentions) of an objection to the EC proposal concerning maximum levels...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Babies, Children, ENVI Committee, European Parliament

  • EU adopts bill to reduce acrylamide in popular foods

    19 Jul 2017

    EU member countries today adopted legislation aimed at reducing the amount of acrylamide in popular foods such as bread, cereal and chips.   Read the full article from Politic...

    Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA, European Commission, Member States

  • Proposed “benchmark” acrylamide levels set to impose further food firm limits

    20 Jun 2017

    Measures to reduce acrylamide levels in food took a step forward as new draft proposals outline “benchmark” mandatory levels for the industry. Read the full article on ...

    Tags: Acrylamide

  • Cancer warning over posh crisps as study shows they contain three times recommended levels of acrylamide

    06 Apr 2017

    Eating crisps could cause cancer, a study by government-backed scientists has found, as they contain high levels of acrylamide, a known carcinogen. Tests conducted by Fera Science ...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Babies, Consumers, EFSA, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety

  • Fifteen percent of Brussels’ friteries surveyed selling potato fries with high levels of known carcinogen

    27 Feb 2017

    A snapshot survey of potato fries sold in twenty Brussels friteries has discovered three samples with levels of acrylamide, a known carcinogen, above the EU benchmark. A joint inve...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Brussels, Consumers, EFSA, EU, European Parliament

  • Un cancérogène détecté à “un niveau supérieur” dans des biscuits Nestlé pour bébés: L’entreprise réagit

    21 Feb 2017

    De l’acrylamide, une substance cancérogène, a été retrouvée à un niveau supérieur aux indications européennes dans des biscuits pour bébés de marque Nestlé vendus ...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Babies, Consumers, EFSA, EU, France

  • Baby biscuits with high levels of known carcinogen found on sale in France

    20 Feb 2017

    A snapshot survey of a range of biscuits and rusks for babies and infants on sale in France shows that products with high levels of acrylamide, a known carcinogen, continue to be p...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Consumers, EFSA, EU, France

  • Commission to set maximum acrylamide levels in ready-to-eat foods

    10 Feb 2017

    The European Commission plans to set maximum levels for acrylamide in ready-to-eat foods such as baby foods, crisps and breakfast cereals. Read the full article on BakeryAndSnacks ...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Consumers, EFSA, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, MEP

  • NGOs: Commission’s acrylamide regulation has ‘wrong’ legal basis

    22 Nov 2016

    Food and consumer organisations claim that the European Commission’s draft regulation on acrylamide is based on a wrong regulation and this has a direct effect on the lack of max...

    Tags: Acrylamide, Consumers, European Commission

  • Acrylamide proposals strengthened in new draft

    11 Nov 2016

    The European Commission has moved to strengthen proposed new regulations on acrylamide, but the amendments are unlikely to be enough to appease campaigners. Read the full article ...

    Tags: Acrylamide, European Commission

  • Politico: Food activists attack new EU rules on cancer-causing chemical

    29 Sep 2016

    Newly proposed EU rules on an obscure carcinogen found in everything from chips to coffee have sparked a battle between health campaigners and lobbyists representing companies such...

    Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA, European Commission

  • Open Letter to Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans on the Commission Draft Regulation on the application of codes of good practice to reduce the presence of acrylamide in food

    16 Sep 2016

    SAFE- safe food advocacy Europe, CEO – Corporate Europe Observatory and WeMove.EU welcome the much-needed initiative of DG SANTE to adopt measures to reduce the levels of acr...

    Tags: Acrylamide, European Commission

  • EFSA: Acrylamide in food is a public health concern

    05 Jun 2015

    Following a comprehensive review, EFSA has published its scientific opinion on acrylamide in food. Experts from EFSA’s Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) have recon...

    Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA

  • Meeting on the outcome of the public consultation on “Acrylamide in Food”

    25 Oct 2014

    When: 10 December 2014 Where: Brussels More: Here In line with EFSA’s policy on openness and transparency, on 1 July 2014 EFSA launched an open consultation on the draft scientif...

    Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA, Event

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