25.08.2021

By | 14.09.2021

INVISIBLE HAZARD!

Currently, the term "food additives" has expanded our vocabulary. Many buyers, coming to the grocery store, first of all they are interested in, does the product contain food additives. Experienced buyers will not be seduced by the unnaturally appetizing color of the sausage or the overly stuffed drink. But how to distinguish artificial from natural? And how is this chemical miracle, finally, affects our health?

In fact, there are thousands of nutritional supplements. Some allow the product not to deteriorate for a long time., thanks to others, the product retains its shape better, acquires an appetizing color and smell. curious, what if you take and eat nutritional supplements, so to speak, in its purest form - no good. Minimum Additives, that may be contained in the product, without harm to health, carefully calculated.

All nutritional supplements are divided into groups, depending on, what functionality do they have? (technological) appointment. for example, E100 - E182 - dyes (give color to the product), E200-E299 - preservatives (increase the shelf life of products, protecting them from damage), E300-E399 - antioxidants (protect against oxidation, fat rancidity and discoloration).

Requirements for food additives, to products, containing food additives, are enshrined in the technical regulations of the Customs Union No. 029/2012. This regulation establishes maximum levels for the content of food additives in food products..

Compliance with such requirements is controlled by a laboratory method or by conducting an external examination.. Supervisory bodies of Gosstandart identify nonconforming products, including the Grodno Regional Inspectorate of the State Standard.

So, this year, the Grodno Regional Inspectorate of the State Standard has identified a number of products, containing unacceptable food additives, import of which into the territory of the Republic of Belarus, its implementation is prohibited by the State Standard. This product has been found to be hazardous. (information about hazardous products is on the website of the State Standard https://gosstandart.gov.by in free access).

In Atlantic cold smoked mackerel, manufacturer individual entrepreneur Panin E.V.. (Russian Federation) an undeclared food additive - benzoic acid preservative was found as a result of tests (E211), unacceptable in the manufacture of this product.
In production:
sweet cracker "CHRISTO-TWISTO FRENCH", manufacturer

JSC "Confectionery factory" BELOGORE " (Russian Federation),

Alpella marshmallow sandwich biscuits covered with chocolate icing, manufacturer LLP Foreign enterprise "Hamle" Company LTD (The Republic of Kazakhstan),
long biscuits "Yashkino" with butter cream,
TONDI sandwich with chocolate-creamy taste, long biscuits "Yashkino" with strawberry cream, TONDI sandwich biscuits with chocolate flavor, manufacturer LLC "KDV Voronezh" (Russian Federation), hard cookies with icing "CHOCOBOY SAFARI" ("CHOCOBOY SAFARI"), manufacturer ORION INTERNATIONAL EURO LLC (Russian Federation), long biscuits "CHOCOTARTIN" with cocoa cream filling, manufacturer OOO "Nefis" (The Republic of Moldova) an unacceptable food additive declared on the label was used: preservative sodium pyrosulfite E223.

During sugar biscuits "Curd Cookies-Jam" in white glaze, manufacturer United Trading Company LLC (Russian Federation), as a result of the tests, a synthetic dye ponso, not declared by the manufacturer in the marking of the composition of the product, was found 4 R (E 124), which affects the activity and attention of children.

We hope, that this information will help our consumer in choosing safe products.