Tag: food additives

Regulators investigating the use of de-icing road salt in foodstuffs by three Polish companies – and possibly many more – have notified the Commission’s central Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) and are checking for dangers to health, EurActiv can reveal.

Parliament's Environment Committee has voted to ban colouring agents in food, as recent research on health effects of bright colouring additives in sweets and soft drinks shows that these dyes can cause hyperactivity in children. 

The European Parliament has called for a proposed regulation on food additives to ensure high protection of human health and the environment, with a new authorisation procedure requiring prior approval from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma.

As a response to concerns over children's consumption of "unhealthy foods", Latvia will ban their sale in schools later this year.

On 20 March 2003, the European Court of Justice annulled a 1999 Commission refusal to authorise stricter Danish provisions on nitrates and nitrites, used as preservatives. The Court approved the Commission's decision regarding sulphites, a third preservative.