EUROPEAN COMMISSION PUSHES AHEAD ON BPA RESTRICTIONS, DESPITE EFSA ASSURANCES
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is moving ahead with boosting controls on plastics ingredient bisphenol A (BPA), despite the European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) declaring existing European Union (EU) regulations to be sufficient.
The agency's panel for food contact materials, enzymes, flavourings and processing aids had concluded it "could not identify any new evidence [leading it] to revise the current tolerable daily intake" limit within consumers' bodies of 0.05 mg/kg. BPA is widely used in food and drink plastics packaging and in metal ...
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