Easy to use and clean, silicone molds are a confectioner’s delight. But some can be harmful to health, warns UFC-Que Choisir? in a test that will be published in the December magazine of the association.
“The test results are cause for concern: most of the 29 pans tested allow substances to migrate into food in large quantities, including in some cases particularly dangerous substances. No baking pan should release substances into food during baking. cooking”, is alarmed. .
Especially since this phenomenon of transfer of substances is accelerated due to the high temperatures to which these molds are subjected during firing.
6 models to avoid including Carrefour Home
“The levels of substances emitted are sometimes considerable and for some molds exceed the maximum limit provided for by French regulations for all substances. For other references, while the amounts of substances must decrease as they pass through the oven, through the On the contrary, we observe a worrying increase in these ”, continues the UFC.
Example with the Tupperware mold for 6 mini cakes that “for example emits 15 times more substances in the 3rd firing than in the first”.
“Finally, some mussels release substances of particular concern that can cause cancer, genetic mutations or damage reproductive functions. These substances are found in particular in Lily Cook and Aliexpress mussels,” denounces the association.
Suppression of seized fraud
Overall, no fewer than 23 of 29 mussels were judged by the association to be “unsafe” with respect to their results. Worse still, 6 of them should be avoided, such as the Carrefour Home (18 mini muffins) and Aliexpress (6 donuts x 2) pans, due in particular to the presence in these two products of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, which is considered a substance of very high concern. . at the European level”.
However, some models are safe, the association believes. Like the Tefal kit 8 3D Proflex animal mold, or the Ikea Tartbak diamond mold “practically inert with respect to food”.
The UFC regrets that the 30-year-old French regulations on the subject are today particularly incomplete and the absence of harmonized and truly protective European regulations.
Therefore, it is urgent to act, believes the association, which announces that it seizes “the General Directorate for Competition and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) to carry out reinforced controls on this category of products.”
Source: BFM TV
