Food additives are diverse substances not consumed as food, that are not specific food ingredients, have or not a nutritional value, but are intentionally added to food stuff in technological purposes. In 2009, as in the previous years, the use of main food additives was monitored, in the frame of the National Program II (The monitoring of the determinant health factors from the work and life environment). The monitoring has brought to light the presence of a certain number of inacuracies and mistakes linked with additive use, showing the necessity of carrieng out the activity of control, in order to respect the general legislation in force in the couuntry and to avoid accident and incidents leading to serious food safety problems.
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