ACTIVATED CHARCOAL IN FOOD? A BIG ‘NO’, ACCORDING TO FOOD SAFETY DEPARTMENT

Highlights:

• Although it has become a trend to use activated charcoal as an ingredient in popular foods, it is not permitted to be used as a food additive.
• Its use has become so rampant that the Food Safety Department had to step in and take some actio...

A new study attributes the finding of black carbon in the Amazon river to recent forest burning.

A team of an international group of researchers suggests that most of the black carbon found in Amazon river is young and therefore could be a result of the recent amazon forest fires. 

This black carbon is a by-product of incomplete combustion process of vegetation. They are relea...