EFSA FININGS CONCERN
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared that "analytical and clinical studies" should examine whether commonly used finings, cleansing some alcoholic drinks of impurities, cause potentially dangerous allergic reactions. Its current concerns focus on fish products, including gelatine and isinglass; egg products including albumin and lysozyme; and milk products such as casein, used as "processing aids" in wine and cider that "may partly remain in the finished products". They are known as major allergens, except isinglass. EFSA wants ...
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