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Products containing carob, an additive (E410) used in particular in ice cream, and contaminated with ethylene oxide will all have to be withdrawn from the European market. The withdrawal will be mandatory even if ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic pesticide banned in Europe, is not detected, the European Commission ruled on Friday evening.
Companies that have marketed products proven to have been contaminated with ethylene oxide “will have to withdraw them from the market”. Products that have already been purchased by consumers will have to be recalled, indicates the crisis unit set up on the subject.
No safe threshold
This total ban has been decided “because no safe exposure level can be defined for consumers”, according to the European Commission. Ethylene oxide, a “carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic agent” is banned in the European Union but has been detected in many imported products or from contaminated imported products.
In France alone, several hundred ice cream references as well as multiple products (sesame, spices, infusions, food supplements, powdered sugar, etc.) containing carob have been the subject of a recall procedure which can be consulted on the website of the Fraud (DGCCRF).
Undetectable contamination
The NGO Foodwatch, as well as the Solidaires CCRF & SCL union of agents of the Repression of Fraud, had recently alerted to this contamination. They accused the authorities of wanting to let “flow into the European product market” whose contamination would be “below the detectable threshold”, i.e. 0.02 mg / kg.
“If we incorporate a contaminated product into ice cream for example, it may end up below the detection threshold”, then deciphered Roland Girerd, of Solidaires CCRF & SCL. “That doesn’t mean it’s gone. And since these ingredients are used in a whole bunch of products, that may mean we’re not going to ingest them in just one of them.” Friday night, Foodwatch rejoiced “that the regulations which have guaranteed the health security of Europeans since 2002 be really applied. Even if this should have been obvious”.