date:Mar 13, 2019
Regulators in Europe should do more to help protect consumers from the presence of acrylamide in their food, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) says.
The organisation is calling on the European Commission to lower the current indicative benchmarks for the carcinogenic acrylamide and make them binding on food producers.
The calls follow a Europe-wide test exploring the presence of acrylamide in foods.
Ten consumer groups sampled over 500 food products known to contain acrylamide such a