In the preserves (two different canned products and one in a plastic pouch) where the use of acid was indicated on the label small amounts of BPF were detectable: about 0.05 mg kg−1 in the sprouts and about 0.02 mg kg−1 in the liquid medium (covering liquid).
Four products for people were found to have significantly less chondroitin than indicated on the label, ConsumerLab said.
The testing company reported that two products for humans, not four, had significantly less of a major ingredient, chondroitin, than indicated on the label.
Vodkas made from other ingredients can use the name if their composition and origin are clearly indicated on the label, according to new labeling rules approved by the parliament.
But in recent years, some new clinical trials, aimed at showing that using the drugs at higher doses than indicated on the label would improve survival, found the opposite.
That still leaves unclear whether the drugs are dangerous if used at the levels indicated on the label, a question that bedeviled an F.D.A. advisory committee last year and is likely to do so again in March.
The amounts are not indicated on the label and there are no maximum concentration limits for all of them.
Research shows that most people apply less than half the amount of sunscreen needed to provide the level of protection indicated on the label.
To avoid the possible protectionism, traceability systems should not be mandatory when the originating place of the main ingredient indicated on the label of a finished product is a developing country.
It requests in Article 48 (2) that an 'advertisement for a mixture classified as hazardous which allows a member of the general public to conclude a contract for purchase without first having sight of the label shall mention the type or types of hazard indicated on the label' [17].
