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Tag: Food Additives

  • French researchers find hard evidence of cocktail effects of food additives

    09 Apr 2025

    For the first time, a broad-based study has found evidence of cocktail effects of certain combinations of food additives. Researchers in the field of nutritional epidemiology from ...

    Tags: cocktail effect, Food Additives, UPFs

  • Ultra-processed truths

    04 Nov 2024

    Ultra-processed foods contain many additives and are often marketed using misleading terms. We want the next European Commission to pay attention to this. Watch our Deputy Director...

    Tags: Food Additives, misleading marketing, ultra-processed foods

  • New Anses opinion confirms link between nitrite consumption and cancer

    12 Jul 2022

    In a highly anticipated opinion published on July 12, 2022, the French national agency for food safety (Agence nationale de sécurité alimentaire – Anses) confirms for the f...

    Tags: ANSES, Cancer, Food Additives, nitrates, nitrites

  • Regulatory challenges: the case of E171 in the EU and the UK

    10 Feb 2022

    Titanium dioxide, also known as E171 is an additive very commonly used as a white colourant in food, but also in many other products, e.g., paints, cosmetics, toothpaste, etc. ...

    Tags: E171, EFSA, Food Additives, titanium dioxide, UK

  • New evidence on a potential correlation between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and early death

    25 Jan 2022

    The term ‘ultra-processed foods’ refers to products that have undergone a substantial amount of industrial processing and whose nutritional labels generally report a long list ...

    Tags: Food Additives, Food Safety, Healthy diet, Nutrition, unhealthy food

  • Commissioner Kyriakides respond to 34 MEPs’ letter on E171

    23 Jan 2020

    On 17 December 2019, a cross-party coalition of 34 MEPs sent a letter to Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to ask for an extension of the French ban on the whit...

    Tags: DG SANTE, E171, EFSA, Food Additives, Food Safety, health, MEP

  • Concerns about E171 cross borders

    30 Oct 2019

    As shown in a test done on 12 different products, titanium dioxide in food (E171) is present in plenty of your food without you even knowing about it. SAFE has launched a petition ...

    Tags: Consumers Rights, E171, Food Additives, titanium dioxide

  • Petition to extend the French ban on Titanium Dioxide in Food Products (E171)

    22 Oct 2019

    SAFE, ECOS and Agir Pour l’Environnement have launched a petition to support the removal of controversial food additive E171 (Titanium Dioxide) from the French market. We cal...

    Tags: E171, ECHA, Food Additives, NGO, titanium dioxide

  • European civil society groups raise questions about industry-funded study on E171 toxicity and call on decision-makers to support the French ban on unnecessary food additive

    12 Sep 2019

    A crucial European meeting to discuss the French ban of E171 – the food additive version of titanium dioxide – is due to take place on Monday 16th September. Civil soci...

    Tags: Consumers, E171, European Commission, Food Additives, France, Industry, titanium dioxide

  • Divided opinions about the French ban on E171

    27 Jun 2019

    A recent evaluation of titanium dioxide in food from the French national food safety agency ANSES belied EFSA’s assessment of this substance. The evaluation highlighted significa...

    Tags: E171, EFSA, Food Additives, Food Safety, France, titanium dioxide

  • Joint letter to demand the removal of E171 from the EU list of permitted food additives

    06 May 2019

    On 3rd May, SAFE and 8 EU NGOs (BEUC, CIEL, ECOS, EEB, FoodWatch International, HEAL, HEJ, WECF) sent a letter supported by 30 national NGOs to Vice-President Jyrki Kaitanen urging...

    Tags: E171, European Commission, Food Additives, Joint letter, SAFE

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