EU Could Ban Smoked Food
THE EU’s Scientific Committee is considering stronger marginal values, which could threaten both smoked salmon and other popular food products because of possible cancer links, according to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
EU scientists claim that we absorb ten times as much of the cancer provoking substance PAH from the food we eat than from breathing in air.
In Europe it has been estimated that PAH causes 30 deaths per million people a year, as well as causing genetic harm.
The EU Commission will therefore suggest that stronger regulations are introduced for PAH, which could be the end of several different smoked foods.
“If a marginal value for PAH in food is brought in, it is very uncertain whether the smoked food will be able to manage the demands”, Bente Fabech from the Danish foodstuff directorate told Svenska Dagbladet.
And according to the newspaper it is not only smoked food that is in trouble; grilled food could also be forbidden, depending on what marginal value EU will set.
A spokesperson for the EU Commission, Martin Slayne, said that the decision as to which foods will be affected by the new values would be decided this fall.
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