Food Safety Bulletin

Food Safety Bulletin

Food additives are substances added to food. They must be written on the packaging, the list of ingredients. The official definition of a food additive is any substance not normally consumed as food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food whether or not it has nutritive value, and intentional addition of which to food for a purpose technological stage of their manufacture, processing, preparation, processing, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may reasonably be expected to result, it becomes itself or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly, a food component.

Food additives are substances added to food in order to improve conservation, appearance, taste, etc. Food colorings, preservatives, emulsifiers, thickeners, stabilizers, gelling agents, flavor enhancers and sweeteners are a few common examples of food additives. Below is the list of food additives dangerous to your health:

Propylene Glycol E1520 or Anti-freeze could be dangerous. The only case or Propylene Glycol is used as antifreeze, is to get a very expensive antifreeze, used in cold food, or undetected leak should not contaminate food.

Aspartame E951: it is widely used in lights products (drinks, sweets, chewing gum, etc.).

Health risk: digestive disorders, headaches, insomnia, weight gain, joint pain, memory loss, panic attacks, infertility, etc.

Cyclamic acid E952 and Na, Ca: artificial sweetener to replace sugar.

Health risk: Cancer (additive banned in the United States in 1970, approved in Canada and other countries.)

E955 sucralose: a sweetener 600 times sweeter than sugar.

Health risk: liver problems and kidney.

E954 Saccharin and salts Na, K, Ca: sweetener 300 times sweeter than sugar.

Health risk: many allergies.

These are just a few to name and identify the health risk associated with Food Preservatives. Other additives, among which are included acidifying agents and acidity regulators, other minerals, anti-caking agents, antifoaming ...