Additive Alert: Your Guide to Safer Shopping

148 pages. First published in September 2004, Additive Alert - Your Guide to Safer Shopp ing has become a best selling consumer reference about food additives in Austral ian foods. The book has sold more than 25 000 copies in its first year and thous ands of families around the country have already discovered the simple steps the y can take to avoid harmful additives and enjoy better health and happier kids a s a result.This remarkable book will tell - What food additives are and why they are used.- Which ones are safe and which ones are not.- How additives are linke d to health problems.- How to read and understand food labels ? what the manuf acturers do not tell you.- Which additives are considered unsafe overseas yet st ill used in Australia.- How to take control of your kitchen and make healthier c hoices for you and your family.- Things you can do to help make a difference.