EFSA RAISES ALARM ON NEW ADDITIVES
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has raised concerns about methods used by the food industry to measure exposure of consumers to flavourings during market safety trials. In a study of flavourings including aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic ethers (plus anisole derivatives), EFSA criticised Maximised Survey-derived Daily Intakes (MSDIs) methods, looking at average consumption of a flavouring. The panel said by taking into account people never eating a product, this could "grossly underestimate the intake by regular consumers". So it used a ...
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