EFSA RAISES CONCERN ABOUT ALUMINIUM CONTAINER CONTAMINATION
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has raised concerns about aluminium leaching from food and drink packaging into food and drink. EFSA scientists have concluded that a safe level of such contamination (a Tolerable Weekly Intake - TWI) is 1 milligram of aluminium per kilogram of body weight. However, these experts estimated that "intakes of aluminium may exceed the TWI in a significant part of the European population." See http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_1178720563452.htm
Meanwhile, EFSA has said ...
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