EU acrylamide levels: check your products’ compliance
EU acrylamide levels: check your products’ compliance
Our compliance tool is a simple, efficient way to check your products’ acrylamide levels against the EU’s proposed new benchmarks and maximum limits. With this tool, you can find the right solution to keep your products in compliance and order free samples to test in your process.
To get started, select your industry below.
1) Proposed maximum limit under consideration by the EU. If your products have levels above this limit, there’s a high risk you’ll have to stop marketing them.
2) Proposed benchmark level under consideration by the EU. If your products have levels above this benchmark, you’ll need to take steps to reduce them, or risk not being able to market your products.
3) EU benchmark levels and mitigation measures currently in force.
4) Target values from LIDL position paper on Conscious Nutrition September 2018.
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About acrylamide formation
As explained in Food and Drink Europe’s Acrylamide Toolbox, four main factors influence the amount of acrylamide that forms in your products:
- Reducing Sugars
- Asparagine
(Basic Formula,
Ingredients, Product Form)
- Raising/Leavening Agents
- Other Minor Ingredients
(e.g. glycine and divalent cations) - pH
- Dilution/Piece Size
- Fermentation
- Thermal Input & Moisture
- Enzyme asparaginase
- Pre-treatment
- Finished Product Colour
- Texture/Flavour
- Consumer or End User Guidance
The toolbox suggests a range of acrylamide mitigation measures based on the factors above. But from the addition of acids to changes in piece size, many non-enzymatic measures don’t reduce acrylamide levels enough and/or involve recipe changes. These changes can impact final product quality.
About Acrylaway® products
Based on the enzyme asparaginase, Acrylaway® products deliver significant reductions in acrylamide in most cases. They also give you superior results in terms of keeping the textures and tastes your customers expect. And as Acrylaway® products are classed as processing aids, they don’t need to be declared on your labels. That means you can keep the cleaner labels your customers prefer.
Listen to RoStar's experience with acrylamide reduction
Listen to RoStar's experience with acrylamide reduction
See how RoStar has started using Acrylaway® in their biscuit production to create healthier products. They list the main advantages as:
• Easy to apply and no need for changes in production setup
• Does not affect taste or texture in the biscuits
• Gives them peace of mind and builds consumer trust
Don’t know where to start?
Don’t know where to start?
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