Additives

Food additives are substances that are added to food in order to enhance its taste, preserve its flavour or improve its appearance. These additives (such as sweeteners, flavourings, emulsifiers or stabilizers) can be created naturally (e.g. vinegar for pickling, salting for preservation purposes or caramel to give the dark colour to cola soft drinks) or artificially.

Food processing has increased the use of artificial additives. Even though most of these are considered safe, some additives are suspected to have negative impacts and may lead to hyperactivity in children, allergic reactions, asthma or migraines.

The regulation of food additives and the understanding of the exposure level of consumers is crucial. In order to prevent consumers from the dangers associated with additives, market share and brand loyalty, occurrence data and concentration data need to be considered in an exposure assessment in order to obtain reliable results.

If you need the best available information on these issues, we can help you in assessing exposure for additives.

With the help of Creme Food Safety, you can easily combine data sets using scientifically validated models in order to generate reports of consumption levels of additives for key demographics.

The Creme Food Safety tool contains specific models for assessing additive exposure, probabilistic models to handle variability and uncertainty, food grouping searching tools and an assessment tool for key demographic groups.

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