英国食品标准局更新了不含六种色素的企业名单

    食品伙伴网导读：2009年12月1日，英国食品标准局更新了产品中不含六种易导致儿童多动症的色素的企业名单。

    原文报道：

The Agency has updated its list of product ranges that do not contain the six food colours associated with possible hyperactivity in young children. A further four manufacturers producing product lines free of the colours have been added to the list.

The list includes both companies whose product ranges have never contained the six colours and product ranges that have been reformulated to remove the colours. The colours, identified by a Southampton University study financed by the Food Standards Agency, are:

• sunset yellow FCF (E110)
• quinoline yellow (E104)
• carmoisine (E122)
• allura red (E129)
• tartrazine (E102)
• ponceau 4R (E124)

The manufacturers added to the list are: Appletiser, Meridian Foods Ltd, Rocks Organic Ltd and Seafish UK.

The Agency is publicising the product ranges to encourage the food industry to participate in the voluntary ban. The voluntary ban was agreed to by Ministers late last year.

Consumers who are particularly concerned about the presence of the colours should continue to check labels, especially in the case of products with a long shelf-life where the availability of reformulated products may vary.

Any food manufacturer, retailer or caterer wishing to notify the Agency that their brands or products are free of these colours, should email details to Benedict Duncan, at benedict.duncan@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk.

The Agency's website will be updated regularly as new information is provided.