Reporting to final week’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board, Dr Sandy Lawrie, secretary of a Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP), pronounced there were no nanotech food products “close to market”.
“The fact that we don’t hear a lot from attention means one of dual things: possibly there’s not a lot going on or what they’ve got going on they don’t wish to share,” pronounced Lawrie.
But given a ACNFP had unequivocally “open relationships” with attention in other novel dishes areas, Lawrie suspected there wasn’t many activity in nanotechnology targeted during a UK.
New nano materials
“In terms of people building code new nano materials to supplement into food, my end seems to be there is not a lot of work in that area going on,” he said.
The ACNFP, a systematic row that advises a FSA, has to approve any novel food products – such as those containing engineered nano materials – before they can be sole in a UK underneath a European Novel Foods Regulation.
ACNFP has not been compulsory to consider any nano materials in a march of a work, as no applications for a capitulation of such materials have been made.
Under a new EU Food Information Regulations, with outcome from 2014 engineered nano materials contingency be identified on food and splash packaging.
But during a same meeting, Sue Davies, arch process confidant for consumer organisation Which? criticised a miss of clarity about what nano products were already on universe markets. “We’re unequivocally undone by a miss of swell in this area,” pronounced Davies, who also sits on a Board of a European Food Safety Authority.
Davies reported that research, conducted both by a FSA and Which?, showed that people lucky nanotechnology if they believed it offering genuine consumer benefits. But there were concerns about a impacts on long-term health and a environment, together with a apparent miss of clarity shown by a food industry.
Greater transparency
This miss of clarity was a regard lifted by a House of Lords news into Nanotechnologies and Food led by Professor John Krebs and published in Jan 2010. The news called for a open register of products containing nano materials, as good as a stating intrigue and larger clarity about new investigate in a field.
While a FSA is now building a list of authorized nano materials, approaching “early in 2012”, it has nonetheless to be published.
Davies also highlighted a series of investigate projects around a universe looking into a use of nanotechnology ingredients, identified final year in investigate undertaken by a Food and Environmental Research Agency during York.
These included:
- Processed nano-structured dishes for use in products such as mayonnaise,
- Nano conduit systems for a smoothness of nutrients and supplements, that are commercially accessible in some countries,
- Organic nano-sized additives for food (colours, preservatives and flavourings),
- supplements and animal feed,
- Inorganic nano-sized additives for food and feed,
- Food wrapping applications, where many activity was now holding place.
Fonte: Agro Food Planet
