The best protection for consumers is their good information. However, we are often not aware that food and drink additives are used in much larger quantities than allowed!
Experts say that the potential danger to human health is not hidden in the additives themselves, but in the fact that they are used in much larger quantities than allowed.
The food industry today is hard to imagine without the use of additives. They are added during production, processing, packaging, transportation or storage.
Experts state that the use of additives is not left to the free will of the manufacturer, but is strictly controlled.
Are additives harmful to health and what should we be aware of?
"I usually say, if all ingredients in food were as controlled as additives, we would know exactly what we are eating. In order to receive the E number, additives must pass toxicological and technological control by all three health organizations. When it is determined what is the amount that can be eaten on a daily basis, it is reduced by 100 in the food so that we have the amount of each additive, i.e. add the value and then he gets the E number", explains nutritionist Danica Zarić.
The consumer has the right to know what kind of food he buys and what he consumes. The biggest responsibility lies with the producers, but consumers must be careful when choosing the products they consume.
What do we take into account most often?
"I look at both the quality and the price, but I don't have a habit of always looking at it, sometimes I take it according to my own, visual way. I tried to read the descriptions, but they are small print."
"It is not visible at all, I have to wear a good dioptre to see it at all." It's like a loan agreement, when you take out a loan and you are told what you don't see, and in fact that is the most important thing".
"I look at everything, including the price, the composition, the deadline, and the country of origin. I can't see the declaration well, but I have glasses and I also bought a magnifying glass to look at it".
What is written on the declaration should also be written on the packaging. Inspections of the Ministries of Health and Agriculture are obliged to control producers, who are most responsible for what we eat, with their frequent analyses.
"Based on the analyzes that we have right now, which speak of the five-year work of all laboratories dealing with food safety, we can freely say factually that we have food of plant origin that is safe and under control. In general, our analyzes and the analyzes indicated by the laboratories on the question of the examination of those foods say that the norms that are on the declaration in relation to the product contained in it have mostly been complied with., claims the head of the agricultural inspection, Nenad Vujović.
In order to reduce the risk to a minimum, the advice of experts is to pay attention to the declaration or to buy proven products with which you have good experience.
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