date:Apr 23, 2013
he Agency since 2007.
This interim report is part of a rolling programme, in response to European Commission recommendations, to investigate the levels of acrylamide and furan in retail food. Of the 300 products sampled, 294 were analysed for acrylamide and 113 analysed for furan.
For this 2011- 2012 period, the number of products found to contain acrylamide levels that exceeded the indicative value (IV) for their food group (see para 4) was 17. Where an acrylamide level has exceeded an IV, th