Food manufacturers should ‘ban additives’
It has been suggested by the Food Standards Agency that food manufacturers should abstain from using six artificial colourants in food products.
The E numbers could be linked to hyperactivity in children, the agency warned, noting that research is mounting towards this opinion.
Sunset yellow (E110), quinoline yellow (E104), carmoisine (E122), allura red (E129), tartrazine (E102) and ponceau 4R (E124) are the six additives that the agency has advised food manufacturers to no longer use.
Deirdre Hutton, chair of the agency, said the action is a precaution.
She told the Guardian: “If one puts consumers first, which is our duty, and if you bear in mind these are not necessary, then the evidence we have suggests it would be sensible these should be taken out of the food children eat.”
Meanwhile, Daniel Wilkinson, an award-winning butcher from Doncaster, has stated that sausages are not harmful if eaten as part of a healthy balanced diet.
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