Acrylamide levels in food ‘largely unchanged’

EFSA’s latest report on acrylamide in food in 25 European countries reveals that levels remain largely unchanged.

The report covers the monitoring period 2007-2010 and does not reveal any considerable change from the last report for the majority of the food categories assessed, says EFSA. However, since 2008 the number of results submitted to EFSA declined, limiting the reliability of the trend analysis.

The report was prepared by EFSA’s Dietary and Chemical Monitoring Unit using some 13,000 data points on acrylamide levels in food. It will continue to collect acrylamide monitoring data and will update its European exposure assessment in 2013 (last carried out in 2011) based on more recent data on acrylamide levels in food, as well as new food consumption data.