date:Jan 16, 2019
Food producers in Hong Kong have been urged to improve their recipes after a test on cookies and sweet pastries found that most samples contained genotoxic carcinogens, chemicals which have been linked to cancer.
Hong Kongs Consumer Council tested 58 types of cookies and pastries - including almond puffs, egg rolls and palmiers - focusing on the amount of preservatives, contaminants, nutrient content, as well as the accuracy of nutrition labels.
Results showed that 90 percent of the samples c