Sweets foiled by silver beware, the next time you consume sweets coated in silver foil: the decoration is a source of harmful metals. While the amount of the foil ingested through sweets is very small, it still is a health threat. An estimated 275,000 kilogrammes of silver are annually turned into edible silver foil each year by small-scale manufacturers in the country.
The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act of 1954 (pfa) prescribes that food-grade foil should be at least 99.9 per cent silver. But this leaves an unspecified margin of 0.1 per cent or 1,000 microgramme (
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/sweets-foiled-silver
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vibha-varshney
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-process-industry
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/heavy-metals
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmental-science
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/toxins
