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What chemicals are added to your food.

Preservatives.
Preservatives are widely used in the food industry to extend the shelf life of food.
With preservaties in it,food can last much longer without going mouldy orbecoming infested with bugs and bacteria. It can be shipped across the world
and kept "fresh" for years.

Unfortunately, the chemical characteristics that make preservatives effective in
killing bacteria and other organisms in food can effect our heath.

- Sulphur dioxide and sulphites.

•   Sulphur dioxide (E220).
•   Sodium sulphite (E221).
•   Sodium bisulphite( E222).
•   Sodium metabisulphite (E223).
•   Potassium metabisulphite (E224).
•   Potassium sulphite (E225).
•   Calcium sulphite (E226).
•   Calcium hydrogen sulphite (E 227).
•   Potasssium bisulphate ( E228).

 Sulphur dioxide is a gas that is formed when sulphur burns. It also occurs
 naturally. It dissolves in water to form sulphurous acid. The acid form a
 series of salts called sulphites and metabisulphates,which are used as food
 preservaties.

Sulphites prevent vegetables and fruit ( including dried fruit like appricots)
from going brown after they have been peeled and keep vegetables looking
fresh even if they are old and stale.

Dried fruit slices can be kept standing for hours in a sulphite solution until
the sulphur dioxide has completely penetrated the slices.sulphites are often
used on french fries in fast-food outlets and restaurants to stop them
going brown after potatoes have been peeled.

The wine industry uses sulphites to stop wine turning to vinegar and
to preserve its colour.Grapes are often fumigated with sulphur dioxide
to prevent fungal growth.Sulphite are also used to prevent yeast and
bacterial growth in food and to stop oils and fats from turning rancid,
thus extending their shelf life.

They are also uses as a colour preservative in seafood such as
shrimp and lobster.

Health effects.
> Sulphur dioxide - linked to mutation and cancer.
> Sulphites - Severe asthma attacks,stomach problems, blured vision
    dizziness,irregular breathing and nervous irritablity.

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Avoid chemicals in your food.

Welcome,

CAFFEINE.

A drug that is rapidly absorbed into the body. Like other drugs, it has to be detoxified in the body
and excreted. it occurs naturally in tea leaves,coffee beans,cola beans, cola seeds and guarana
(a berry with a natural caffeine content).

It is present in many coffee,tea and guarana drinks, cocoa,hot chocolate and chocolate. It is
also persent in many soft drinks and even some orange and other flavoured drinks.
Most "enegy", "sports" or "smart" drinks contain large quantities of caffeine.


Health effects.
Caffeine is mildly addictive, act as a stimulant  of the central nervous system and
has many other side effect of the body.
Caffeine stimulates the brain and nervous system, the heart, muscle and kidneys.


Useful tips.
> Children should avoid cola drinks "energy" or "soft: drinks  containing caffeine.
>Women should eliminate consumption of coffee and coffeine - containing drinks during
pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
>If you must drink coffee, buy decaffeinated cofee that has been processed with
water, not chemicals.( Methylene chloride, used to decaffeinate coffee, is an acknowledged
carcinogen linked to liver and lung cancer.

Many uses.

Welcome,

PVC clingfilms have many domestic uses.
They are most commanly used for wrapping foods such as sandwiches and for covering
cold foods in a container before storage in a refrigerator.

They are  also used  to wrap cheese, meat,cakes,  etc, before  prolonged storage in
a freezer, or for a lesser period in the  refrigerator.

Some people also use clingfilm to cover food or food containers during cooking
or heating in a microware oven.

In Britian, it was found that some authors of cookery books recemmended
the use of clingfilm for intimate contact with food to be cooked in a
microwave or conventional oven, but this is not recemmended by
the manufactures of the film as many cause softening or even melting
of the film.

Another use of PVC is in the form of bags or casings for the packinging
of meat loaves, pre-cooked chickens, frankfurters and bacon joints.

PVC coating plasticised with  a low level doz (a plasticiser used in 
plastics) may also be applied to aluminium foil.