European Parliament 4 December 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION P-3550/02 by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Monosodium glutamate E621.

The SSC furthermore raises the issue of the possible presence of dioxins in the effluent of the alkaline hydrolysis process and states that additional data / analyses were needed to verify whether during this process dioxins are formed in addition to background levels that may already have been present. The SSC’s opinions are available on the website: http://europa.eu.