FURAN INQUIRY
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN food industry has been asked to supply information to an official inquiry aimed at discovering products most prone to contain the carcinogen furan. This was said by the US Food and Drug Administration in May to be present in some foodstuffs exposed to high temperatures, claims that are being investigated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). It has established a working group, because the American data does not allow the assessment of "consumer exposure to furan from food and other sources". In a letter to EU food organisation ...
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