The director of the Latin American Alliance of Associations of the Food and Beverage Industry (Alaiab), Camilo Montes, asked this Sunday to avoid the satanization of food additives, including artificial coloring, since many of them are safe for human beings.
“Behind any food and drink that is put in the market there is a very deep work of food industry, food scientists, regulatory entities, including consumer representatives, governments, make that food effectively can be made available to consumers,” said Montes.
These statements occur after last April the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States announced that before 2027 several artificial coloring colors used in snacks Sweet and salty, as well as in drinks, to add a brilliant tone to these snacks or cereals, they will be prohibited by their health consequences.
Specifically, six dyes will be prohibited, known as Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 2 and, according to the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services, the objective is to eliminate the aforementioned dyes from the food chain, and ask companies to remove red 3, also before 2027.
Given this, Montes said that the Alaiab promised to protect the health of consumers, and recalled that behind each food and drink that reaches the market there is a complex work of scientists, regulatory authorities, consumer representatives and governments.
“When the food and beverage industry decides to put a product in the market, it has to count, among other things, with authorizations to be able to use those ingredients, whether they are of natural or chemical origin,” he said.
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Alaiab says that additives and dyes can be safe for consumption
The director of the Alaiab explained that the dyes, for example, play a technological function so that the food has “an appearance, a color, a texture” that allows the consumer to decide to buy the product and, of course, consume it.
He recognized, however, that currently, to the extent that consumers access more information, sometimes the data does not have sufficient scientific and technical evidence, and do not have the knowledge of what the procedure is, for example, for authorization and approval for a food to be put in the market.
Therefore, he said, the Alaiab promotes “the unrestricted fulfillment of the rules of the game. Everyone in the market has to comply with the rules of the game,” he emphasized.
This, he signed, means that specialists accredited by the highest world authorities in health and food meet to carry out international scientific evaluations about all food additives and guarantee their safety.
He pointed out that in a healthy diet “all foods fit.”
Finally, he said that the industry has the commitment to weigh scientific evidence above all, because the most important thing is “consumer protection.”
With EFE information
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