E for Additives. Maurice Hanssen
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E FOR ADDITIVES
THE BEST-SELLING, AWARD WINNING DEFINITIVE E NUMBER GUIDE
Maurice Hanssen
with Jill Marsden
B.Sc., Dip.Ecol., Dip.Ed.
Thorsons Element
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The website address is: www.thorsonselement.com
First published October 1984
Twentieth Impression December 1986
Second edition (completely revised and substantially expanded) September 1988
© Maurice Hansen 1987
Maurice Hansen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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This new edition is dedicated to:
All those consumers and manufacturers who use the E code wisely to improve the quality of food and of health;
the many scientists, manufacturers and consumers who have provided invaluable technical information;
all those journalists and broadcasters who helped begin a food buying revolution with the first edition;
my patient and dedicated publishers;
my Research Assistant, Jill Marsden, B.Sc, who continues to triumph over the problems of organizing ever increasing quantities of often contradictory scientific information;
the distinguished and still crusading former Minister of Health, David Ennals, for his perceptive and kind foreword;
Leslie Kenton for her foreword to the first edition;
Elizabeth Brown and Angela Beazley for their word-processing skills, often under great pressure;
my family for their support.
Contents
Foreword to First Edition by Leslie Kenton
2. Why Are There Still Secret Ingredients?
3. Golden Eggs and Pink-Fleshed Fish
8. Do Additives Affect Ability?
10. The Avoidable 57 Additives
11. The Natural Opportunity for Profit
Appendix II Warning: Dangerous Food Additives—The Villejuif List
Appendix III The Regulation of Food Additives