{"id":11139,"date":"2022-07-21T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/france-will-reduce-nitrates-and-nitrites-from-processed-products\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:27:08","slug":"france-will-reduce-nitrates-and-nitrites-from-processed-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/france-will-reduce-nitrates-and-nitrites-from-processed-products\/","title":{"rendered":"France will reduce nitrates and nitrites from processed products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Executive has announced that it will launch a &#8220;coordinated action plan to achieve the reduction or elimination of the use of nitro additives in all food products&#8221;. The Government has recalled, however, that &#8220;the use of nitrites and nitrates is authorized by European regulations, which provides for maximum incorporation rates of 150 mg per kilo&#8221;, and France is below that threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>French Food Safety Agency (ANSES)<\/strong> has issued a report recommending reducing exposure to nitrites and nitrates. Much of the nitrates are consumed through &#8220;vegetable products, such as leafy products such as spinach or lettuce; a quarter comes from water and only 4% comes from the use of additives in processed meats. As for nitrites, more than half, come from charcuterie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report recalls that &#8220;the French (99% adults and children) do not exceed the daily exposure doses for nitrates and nitrites,&#8221; according to Agrodigital.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of nitrates and nitrites to sausages is intended to limit the growth of bacteria that cause diseases such as <strong>salmonellosis, listeriosis and botulism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Executive has announced that it will launch a &#8220;coordinated action plan to achieve the reduction or elimination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,146,172,173,955,956,84,74],"tags":[100,98,108,101,95],"class_list":["post-11139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anafric","category-beef","category-meat","category-meat-companies","category-nitratos","category-nitritos","category-pork","category-sheep","tag-anafric","tag-carne","tag-carne-roja","tag-empresas-carnicas","tag-francia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anafric.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}