Sesame seeds exposed to ethylene oxide, over 1000 products recalled
Ethylene oxide is banned in the Union but has been found in food in doses a thousand times higher than the maximum tolerated limit in Europe.
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Monday evening, the list of products in question was already very long, ranging from Nordic bread brand “La gerbe savoyarde”, distributed by Intermarché, to multi-seed tofu from La Vie Claire, including organic sesame seeds from Carrefour. The alert was carried out through the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, a European alert system reporting problems relating to agrifood products.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/des ... b88c60a65f
La liste https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/avi ... -du-sesame
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyde_d%2 ... yl%C3%A8ne
I don't quite understand this panic ... sesame is often a spice in very small quantities ... on the other hand it is scandalous that organic is affected in the same way!