Abstract

In Colombia, there is little information regarding the serious health problems that children face as they are subjected to the consumption of food products from the family basket and school support, which have multiple additives harmful to their long-term health. In addition, the regulation of the food industry ineffective. For this reason, three additives commonly found in food in the family basket and easily accessible to the child population were studied: tartrazine, aspartame and monosodium glutamate, in aspects such as their consumption, their effects and their regulation according to Colombian legislation. From this, it seeks to provide a bioethical perspective of the facts mentioned above by analyzing the decrees and policies that govern Colombian companies and how this could directly affect the child population.

Keywords: Additives; Bioethics; Degrees; Regulation; Child

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Citation

Citation: Angela Maria Wilches Flóre.,et al. “Additives: Regulation in Colombia and Risks in the Salt of the Child Population". Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 4.9 (2020): 70-74.

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Copyright: © 2020 Angela Maria Wilches Flóre.,et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.