Pesticides in products used to manufacture infant foods

Citation

(2000), "Pesticides in products used to manufacture infant foods", British Food Journal, Vol. 102 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/bfj.2000.070102hab.011

Pesticides in products used to manufacture infant foods

Pesticides in products used to manufacture infant foods

The Commission is seeking to prohibit certain pesticides in agricultural products used to manufacture infant formula, follow-on formula and baby foods. The Commission intends to agree proposals on the lists of prohibited pesticides by November but, at the time of writing, it has yet to formally adopt draft proposals.

The draft proposals fulfil European Commission obligations, laid down in directives 1999/50/EC and 1999/39/EC, to draw up a list of pesticides which shall not be used in agricultural products intended for use in the manufacture of infant formulae and baby foods respectively. They would extend existing controls laid down in these Directives which already limit the maximum level of individual pesticides permitted in these foods to 0.01mg/kg as consumed. The proposals would amend the Commission's Directives on the labelling, and composition of: infant formula and follow-on formula, Directive 91/321/EEC; and processed cereal-based and other baby foods, Directive 96/5/EC.