Taiwan intends to revise the standards for food additives containing aluminum.

According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency" news, weifu Ministry of Food and Drug Administration on the 18th announced the revision of the use of aluminum-containing food additives and limited standards, the front table, including sea otter skin and other specific aquatic processing products, pickled vegetables, oil bars, muffins and other different standards, as soon as March can be announced on the road.Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Food and Drug Administration foreshadowed the revision of the use of aluminum-containing expanders (powdering) from "moderate use", "food manufacturing or processing if necessary", to according to the oil bars, cakes, muffins, hair cakes, British scavenging cakes, horseradashes, fried noodles and other fried baked goods, as well as keel, sea otter skins, crustaceans and other processed aquatic products, such as different use ranges, set different aluminum residue values.according to theFood and Drug Administration, the forecast is revised to include aluminum expanders used in aquatic processing products such as sea otter skin and keel limit of 500 mg/kg, oil bars, muffins and other limited limit of 300 mg/kg, pickled vegetables below 200 mg/kg.aluminum has long been thought to cause dementia and affect nerves in the brain, and the agency said some scientific reports did, but there was no definitive evidence after the EU assessment, but there was a revision to the daily tolerance per person, from 7 milligrams per kilogram to 2 milligrams per person. Aluminum has many sources of ingestion, and revising the content of aluminum-containing add-ons can reduce the problem of excessive intake.notice amendment has a 60-day statement period, it is expected that as soon as March can be announced on the road, if the business broke the law, can be fined NT$30,000 to 3 million.
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