De toevoeging van chemische verbindingen zonder voedingswaarde aan levensmiddelen, gezien van het standpunt der volksgezondheid
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Public health aspects of non-nutrient chemicals added to food
1. Survey of the public health problems connected with the addition of chemicals without nutritive value to foodstuffs with a view to improving their stability, consistency or attractiveness.
2. In the Netherlands and many other countries, additives are tested for (1) gross oral toxicity, (2) necessity, and (3) chronic oral toxicity in various animals. This system is no absolute guarantee that such additives will be innocuous, but it provides adequate safeguards for consumers.
3. From the medical practitioner's point of view, compulsory label declaration of additives and quantities is highly desirable in order to facilitate recognition of individual unfavourable reactions in certain patients.
4. Deuel's metabolic technique may prove most valuable in establishing the effects of chemicals in foods, since it permits a more direct and fundamental approach to the physiological action of additives.
1. Survey of the public health problems connected with the addition of chemicals without nutritive value to foodstuffs with a view to improving their stability, consistency or attractiveness.
2. In the Netherlands and many other countries, additives are tested for (1) gross oral toxicity, (2) necessity, and (3) chronic oral toxicity in various animals. This system is no absolute guarantee that such additives will be innocuous, but it provides adequate safeguards for consumers.
3. From the medical practitioner's point of view, compulsory label declaration of additives and quantities is highly desirable in order to facilitate recognition of individual unfavourable reactions in certain patients.
4. Deuel's metabolic technique may prove most valuable in establishing the effects of chemicals in foods, since it permits a more direct and fundamental approach to the physiological action of additives.
TNO Identifier
80086
Source
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 98(III 37), pp. 2577-2588.
Pages
2577-2588
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