date:Mar 07, 2019
A new European test by consumer organizations has highlighted that consumers, especially young consumers, should be better protected from cancer-causing acrylamide in their food. To do so, the European Consumer Organization, BEUC, is calling on the European Commission (EC) to lower the current indicative benchmarks for this contaminant and make these binding for food producers.
Acrylamide is a suspected carcinogen that forms in foods with reduced sugar that is processed at a high temperature. M