Food safety
http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1446375
Is the food
industry missing a major food safety risk? A look at intake of food chemicals
other than by oral ingestion
DATE
PUBLISHED
02 December 2014
AUTHOR
Tony Zipper
By
Tony Zipper (C Chem, ARMIT (App.Chem.), FAIFST, FRACI, FoodLegal Food Chemist)
FoodLegal
Lawyers and Consultants
©
Lawmedia Pty Ltd, December 2014
A
recent article published by the Journal of the
American Medical Association reported the results of a
literature review which held certain chemicals to pose a public health risk
when inhaled. Many of these same chemicals are permitted to be added to food or
oral ingestion without much regulation. But, as this article illustrates, there
are considerable opportunities for food chemicals to be absorbed into the human
body by means other than ingestion. This article queries whether ingestion
should be the only accepted means of food intake when food regulators prescribe
acceptable levels of food chemicals.
Does
food law consider intake other than oral ingestion?
The
Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Food Standards Code)
references its definition of ‘food’ from Food Standards
Australia New Zealand Act 1991 and then Section 5 of the same
legislation utilizes the word “consumption” which is used to describe the act
of ‘eating, drinking, devouring’ (Macquarie Dictionary). The Food Standards
Code does not define the term “consumption”, nor any of its synonyms…
No comments:
Post a Comment