‘Food danger in your kitchen’

DOES your dinner plate leak lead; do your stainless steel saucepans deposit chromium; does your strainer add carcinogens; do your plastic containers pull polymers from your fatty rashers; or does your non-stick melamine lining release formaldehyde?

Knowing that your food is safe is one thing, but it can easily become dangerous if it is in touch with the wrong kind of utensils, storage containers or wrapping.

The experts in setting safe standards, the EU’s Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) for Food Contact Materials, yesterday agreed on a list of the most dangerous substances that can contaminate food in the everyday kitchen.