EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADDITIVES LEGISLATION AMENDMENTS – MEAT
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has added a range of meat products to the scope of a directive that would limit the use of certain additives in food. In amendments at first reading, that will require support from European Union (EU) ministers to become law, MEPs said a number of traditionally cured meat products from Spain, Germany and eastern European countries should be subject to sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate residue limits. The parliament also attached detailed definitions of such products, regarding their traditional manufacture. Another ...
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