المضافات الغذائية بين حماية المستهلك و الضرورات العملية : دراسة في التشريع الجزائري

Abstract EN

The food industry has evolved with the development of the use of additives in their composition to become a practical and commercial necessity on which the interventionists of manufacturers and producers depend in order to attract the consumer who does not realize the seriousness that these additives can cause from serious and chronic diseases, and therefore the study aims to highlight the Food additives in terms of their types, conditions and how to use them as a consumer protection mechanism, as stipulated by the Algerian legislature.

Despite the aim of using these additives in the manufacturing process with what it achieves in the manufacture and preparation of food and keeping it healthy and to improve its taste and appearance in order to achieve significant profits, what results from their use may harm the health and safety of the consumer, which prompted the Algerian legislator like other legislators to underline the framework The law on ensuring and ensuring the health of consumers in relation to food additives where it has established controls and legal requirements for its use, including respect for the permissible ratios in accordance with applicable international standards in this regard, but nevertheless the issue of food additives continues to threaten the health of The consumer as a result of its danger to the body and its multiplicity between permitted and prohibited, which makes it difficult to control it, especially in the face of producers' preference for their own interests at the expense of the consumer