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- Title
Zur Kritik der Chemisierung und Technisierung der Umwelt.
- Authors
STOFF, HEIKO
- Abstract
The article discusses the evolution of safety strategies in the West German food industry in the 1950s. The author highlights the role of a commission on food coloring (Kommission zur Bearbeitung des Problems der krebsfördernden Wirkung von Farbstoffen in Lebensmitteln) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG), headed by chemists Adolf Butenandt and Hermann Druckrey. Issues addressed include international cooperative efforts regarding carcinogenic food additives, for example in the EUROTOX and Joint FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)/WHO (World Heath Organization) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), elements of social criticism contained in cancer research by Butenandt, Druckrey, or their colleague Karl-Heinrich Bauer, and the eventual adoption of the Acceptable Daily Intake risk calculation model.
- Subjects
GERMANY; FOOD industry safety measures; COLORING matter in food; DEUTSCHE Forschungsgemeinschaft; BUTENANDT, Adolf; DRUCKREY, Hermann; RISK factors of food additives; CARCINOGENS; FOOD safety; FOOD &; Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; WORLD Health Organization; BAUER, Karl-Heinrich; CANCER research; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
Technikgeschichte, 2014, Vol 61, Issue 3, p229
- ISSN
0040-117X
- Publication type
Article