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Sesame scandal reveals food safety issues
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The food scandal surrounding sesame seeds contaminated with ethylene oxide - a toxic substance banned in Europe - continues to take alarming forms. Ethylene oxide is a gaseous disinfection gas that is mutagenic, carcinogenic and disruptive genital tract. It is used in agriculture to rid crops of unwanted contamination.
For example, you can 'clean' a batch of sesame seeds contaminated with salmonella by spraying ethylene oxide over it. Because of the high health risks, you just don't want to find ethylene oxide in too high doses in your sesame bread, toast, tahin or sescraft. In Europe, ethylene oxide is banned, but in countries such as India, its use is daily practice.
For example, you can 'clean' a batch of sesame seeds contaminated with salmonella by spraying ethylene oxide over it. Because of the high health risks, you just don't want to find ethylene oxide in too high doses in your sesame bread, toast, tahin or sescraft. In Europe, ethylene oxide is banned, but in countries such as India, its use is daily practice.
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