EU PLANS ADDITIVES RESTRICTION REVIEW
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL COLOURINGS, nitrates, nitrites and polysorbates will be priority substances in a comprehensive review of additive controls to be carried out by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). A report by the European Commission explains the review is necessary, because some controls are based on old scientific assessments. Brussels said: "Synthetic colours were among the first additives to be evaluated [many in] the 1970's and 1980s'" and so should be a priority. Also natural colours have only been tested "to a very limited extent and that the ...
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