E Numbers in Everyday Popular Products
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The Soil Association warns about additives found in popular foods.
Visit to the local supermarket in Norwich, Norfolk, finding popular everyday food items that contain E number additives. In 1985, the Soil Association published a new booklet about the increasing number of additives in foods, warning that individuals may be consuming as much as 11 pounds of additives per year. The booklet distinguishes between harmless and dangerous E number additives. For example, a can of peas contains E102, the E code for the dye Tartrazine, found to cause hyperactivity and linked to allergic reactions. Additives were added to processed food products to make them cheaper, more plentiful, convenient and attractive.
Reporter Chris Young interviewed Dr Peter Mansfield of the Soil Association for this video filmed to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
Video made to be inserted during live broadcast of Anglia Television's early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The live studio presentation provided context for the video as part of a news story or magazine feature within the programme. About Anglia was not recorded during broadcast, so it is usually just the pre-recorded programme inserts which survive. In the 1980s Anglia Television was broadcasting to a wide area in the East of England including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and adjoining parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland where there was some overlap with neighbouring ITV regions.