Süßwarenhersteller Feel free to use ammonium carbonate as a leavening agent from China. Now immersed in the chemical on gingerbread samples.
I n milk-containing candies and cookies from China is the chemical melamine has already been demonstrated. Now the toxic material was discovered in ammonium carbonate from China, which is often used as a leavening agent for gingerbread. That the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Consumer Protection reported in Stuttgart. From the Austrian Ministry of Health, there were until Tuesday afternoon, no opinion.
28 ammonium carbonate samples were analyzed in Baden-Württemberg, five from pharmacies or health food stores, four bakers, 13 from the U.S. and six from the food retail trade. Seven samples from five different batches corresponded not with the purity requirements of food law.
No risk
"The food control authorities have prohibited the further processing of the rejected goods immediately," said a ministry spokeswoman. She was no longer in circulation. Yet the full delivery routes are determined. "For the consumer who likes to gingerbread, there is no danger."
ammonium carbonate (ammonium bicarbonate), in particular for the production of gingerbread Mengen von unter einem Prozent eingesetzt. Selbst bei Kleinkindern, der empfindlichsten Verbrauchergruppe, wäre ein täglicher Verzehr von einem halben Kilogramm von mit belastetem Hirschhornsalz hergestellter Backwaren nach einer Bewertung durch die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) noch sicher. Die Auswirkungen von Melamin, das aus Harnstoff gewonnen wird, auf den menschlichen Körper sind aber kaum erforscht.
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