date:Mar 07, 2019
dministration only issued guidance on this contaminant in food, which food makers can choose to ignore. Even in Switzerland, there is so far no legislation on acrylamide in food and our Swiss member FRC is calling for similar rules as we have in the EU, she explains.
Under EU rules, food manufacturers, fast-food chains and restaurants must apply measures to ensure acrylamide levels in their products remain below indicative benchmarks. This is a good first step, but what our members tests showed