A bill on the additives used in charcuterie has been adopted unanimously, Wednesday, by the Committee on Economic Affairs. An eventual prohibition will depend on the handles.
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The ban on nitrites, these controversial additives amply used in charcuteries, will not be the menu of deputies yet, but the agenda is tightening. The Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly adopted, Wednesday, January 26, unanimously, a “proposed law on the consumption of charcuterie products containing nitrated additives”.
The text, which has been widely amended by the Government until its title, refers a possible decision to prohibit a report of the National Food Safety Agency, the Environmental and work (handles). Seizure, in June 2020, by the ministries of agriculture and health, it has still not given its opinion, which is now expected by June.
nitrate additives, which include nitrates and nitrites (E249, E250, E251 and E252), make it possible to facilitate the processing processes of charcuteries, to extend the conservation times, to neutralize some toxins and to give A pink color with ham. But they are also accused of forming carcinogenic compounds, nitrosamines, especially during processing or digestion. Since 2015, transformed meats are classified carcinogenic proven by the International Cancer Research Center (IARC), attached to the World Health Organization.
Amended version
“We would have been much more comfortable this morning, if the opinions had been rendered in the schedule that we were initially fixed,” said the Minister of Agriculture on Wednesday before the Commission of The assembly. While recognizing that the subject was “important and complex”, Julien Denormandie pleaded “a method based on science”: “It is, in no case, to discard. If the opinion of the ANSES says That we need to review the consumption of nitrated additives in the charcuterie, then we will not hesitate (…), he insisted. But it is not to exclude nothing, or to preempt anything. ” / p>
The bill, scope by MPs Richard Ramos (Loiret) and Patrick Mignola (Savoie), as well as by two elected Presidential Majority, Barbara Bessot-Ballot (Haute-Saone) and Michèle Crouzet (Yonne) , provided, in his initial title, a “progressive prohibition”. The amended version stipulates that the Government returns to Parliament after the ANSES report, no later than six months after the promulgation of the law, and proposes a decree within one year, fixing “a dose decline trajectory Maximum nitrated additive “.
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