Danone has announced its intention to withdraw several dairy products from the Romanian market as a precautionary measure after it identified they may be contaminated with the toxic carcinogen aflatoxin.
The dairy producer also blocked 75 tons of products in warehouses after the discovery of aflatoxin in milk supplied by one of its suppliers. Milk was taken out of stores after alflatoxins were found in two batches of milk.
I must say that Danone incurred costs due to the safety of its customers, especially children. Danone has independently recalled its brand's yoghurt, sour cream and natural yoghurt from its muesli stores.
This does her credit, as other dairy producers are simply not ready for this. There is nothing to say about Russia. In the country, there are simply expired and spoiled products for at least 20 years by stores and even more so by manufacturers: they do not throw it into the trash, but re-stamp, recycle and then resell.
Reference: Aflatoxins. They have no taste, no smell, but they have strong toxicity, and can cause a strong disease - aflatoxicosis. Aflatoxins are dangerous because of their carcinogenic properties. They can accumulate in the liver and contribute to the appearance of tumors, provoke mutations in cells. Aflatoxins negatively affect the body's immune system (reducing the overall body's defenses).
Pepsi continues to poison consumers with cancer-causing substances
Research has shown that Pepsi still uses a relatively high level of carcinogen to color the drink, after the company said it would change its formula.
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In March, Pepsi and Coca-Cola said they would be adjusting their formulas after California passed legislation requiring manufacturers of beverages with certain levels of carcinogens to alert consumers of the possibility of cancer. First of all, we are talking about 4-methylimidazole - a substance that is used in the preparation process and can subsequently be found in many products.
The Environmental Health Center's watchdog team found that while tests of Coca-Cola's products no longer test positive for the substance, Pepsi's products still contain 4-methylimidazole.
Pepsi says the dye supplier is currently changing its manufacturing process to reduce the amount of carcinogen. This process will be completed in February 2014 in the United States. Pepsi also promises that the changes will affect the products supplied to the European markets, but the timing was not specified. Meanwhile, the company said in a statement that the Food and Drug Administration, and other regulators around the world, consider Pepsi's caramel color safe.
Coca-Cola said it now uses a modified caramel that does not contain 4-methylimidazole in its drinks for the American market. The company also assures that no matter what type of caramel was used for the production of drinks, the company's products are absolutely harmless. The Environmental Health Center's watchdog team said it tasked Eurofins Analystical with testing the two companies' beverages in May and June.
It is worth noting that in the state of California 4-methylimidazole is included in the list of carcinogens prohibited for use in food production. The supplement is believed to be cancer-causing.
The American Drinks Association, in turn, claims that California has listed the substance as a carcinogen without strong evidence that it causes cancer in humans. Representatives of the association emphasize that the decision was made on the basis of just one study conducted on laboratory rats.
According to some experts, a person would have to drink more than 1,000 cans of soda a day to reach the doses that led to cancer in rodents.
The Coca-Cola and Pepsi companies account for nearly 90% of the carbonated beverage market.
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