Consumer expectations, European

Regulators, clients, and consumers expect to receive a true result fium the laboratory. In order to avoid a semantie discussion about what is the true result , legislators generally define quality requirements to be met by the analytieal method and by the laboratory. The minimum requirements to be met by the analytieal methods used, according to the European directive (Couneil Directive 98/83/EC, 1998), shall be capable of measuring concentrations equal to the parametric value with a specified trueness, precision, and limit of detection. 

The relative production volumes of pyridine compounds can be ranked in the following order pyridine (1) > P-picoline (3) > a-picoline (2)> niacin (27) or niacinamide (26)> 2-vinylpyridine (23)> piperidine (18). U.S. and Japanese production was consumed internally as well as being exported, mainly to Europe. European production is mosdy consumed internally. Growth in production of total pyridine bases is expected to be small through the year 2000. 

It also appears that traditional forms of food processing may not be as safe as expected. The example of the formation of acrylamide in different heat-processed foods may be cited (see Chapter 13 of this volume). However, there are no incontrovertible answers to the questions is acrylamide in food harmful for consumers , and what is the average intake The American Council on Science and Health states that there is no credible evidence that acrylamide in foods poses human cancer risk. New Zealand food safety experts, using a no observable adverse effect level for acrylamide of 0.1 mg per kg bodyweight, also estimate that people eating fried potatos and crisps (products suspected to contain the largest amounts of acrylamide) are a very low risk of cancer from this source. European Union experts decided that the risk of exposure to polyacrylamide in food remains undetermined (Sharp, 2003). 

As a reaction of the various food scares in Europe the European Commission successfully launched the establishment of a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Although its final seat has not yet been agreed upon, it is understood that the Authority will soon start operating from its temporary location in Brussels. The task of EFSA will be a complex one, potentially of immense value, but it must not be burdened with unrealistic expectations. It is obvious that the success of the Authority will strongly depend on its recognition by the public to provide a unified, excellent and independent scientific advice based on an accountable and transparent operation. Thus, it would be unrealistic to expect, that the majority of European consumers would accept EFSA as the ultimate authority on food safety already in the near future. 

European Economic Community (EEC) A food additive is any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such foods. 89/107/EEC. 

It was decided in August 1997 that DG XXIV Consumer Policy and Consumer Health, now renamed the Health Directorate in 1999 Protection, should set up a number of eight new advisory committees, including a Scientific Committee on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices. These committees are expected to meet 10 times per year, and the Committee on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices met for the first time on 10-14 November 1997. The European Drug and Device Report stated Feathers... 

Neither India nor China has a sustainable balance between consumer demand for products and services and supply that can be met by current manufacturing and R D resources, so we can expect that manufacturing and R D in both countries will grow faster than in the United States or European Union, and this shortcoming will cut into U.S./EU exports and jobs until rough parity is achieved, commensurate with the median lifestyle and gross domestic product (GDP). 

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