Are there any limits set for acrylamide?
There are currently no regulatory limits for acrylamide in food. Experts from the World Health Organisation, the European Commission and the UK have all looked at the toxicology of acrylamide and concluded that the situation with regard to exposure from food is not clear and that more data is required. The evidence so far is inconclusive and provides no basis for setting regulatory limits for acrylamide in foods. We are, however, committed to ensuring that acrylamide in food is kept as low as reasonably practicable. There is a strict regulatory limit set for the amount of acrylamide allowed to migrate from plastic food packaging into food. The substances used to manufacture plastic packaging are controlled by EC rules that fully apply in the UK. The specific migration limit in force means that acrylamide migrating into food from plastic food packaging should not be found at or above 0.01 milligrams per kilogram of food (10 parts per billion). This limit only applies to acrylamide migra
