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Expert Defends Food Additives Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization. He discussed man's tinkering with food in a recent issue of Scientific American. Additives are used for such purposes as enhancing flavor, improving color, preserving freshness, and protecting nutritional value. Every time a new additive is proposed, it must ie examined from the standpoint of need and safety. Sometimes a once accepted additive is ruled out on the basis of new evidence, as in the case of cy-clamate sweeteners in the United States.

BUT HOW can all additives in a list of 2,500, some dating back to ancient times, be eval-u a Tests to obtain approval of a single new additive can cost more than $100,000. Additives fall generally in five categories: Flavors, col By JOSEPH L. MYLEIt WASHINGTON (UPI) Food additives have had a bad press lately. But not all of them are villains. Says G.

O. Kermode: "If food production is to increase enough to keep pace with population growth and the effort to improve nutrition generally in undernourished areas, chemicals that are not normally part of food will inevitably play an increasingly important role." FROM THE beginning of recorded history men have been adding nonfood substances to their food to make it more appetizing and easier to preserve. But since the 19th Century food additives have multiplied until now they may number as many as 2,500. Kermode, a Briton, is head of the food standards program operated jointly by the United ors, preservatives, texture agencies such as thickeners, and miscellaneous everything from materials to maintain moisture to others to maintain crispness. Flavors are the largest category 1,100 to 1,400 of them.

Insufficient information on their possibly poisonous or disease-causing aspects make flavors among the hardest of all additives to regulate. "EVALUATING THEM all for safety would be an immense task," according to Kermode. And there may be greater to investigate "the safety of more important and potentially more dangerous additives." Considering the cost of investigating a possibly harmful additive, governments and the food industry must hope for a greater international exchange TIIE STATE JOURNAL May 1972 A-19 of toxicological data, according to Kermode. He noted that different nations have different rules. Take colors.

The British will have a special problem when they become a fully fledged member of the European Economic Community: "Kippers will no longer be golden and sausages will no longer be 'nicely pink' unless the community's list of permitted colors is extended." IN ANY case, "food additives have become part of everyday life and undoubtedly will play an increasing role with advances in food technology," says Kermode. "The prospect is not necessarily bad, because properly used additives can bring the consumer significant benefits." 1 Champion Likes Melons World chess champion Boris Spassky checkmates a slice of melon during a tennis session in Moscow. This is the "pawn broker" U.S. champion Bobby Fischer is so anxious to get at. Japan 's Rich People Glory in Tax isting WD.

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He jogs beginning at 4 a.m. and regularly drinks fresh vegetable juice. The tax agency list also showed that in Japan, as in most other countires, government officials earn far less than entertainers and sports stars. THUS PREMIER Eisaku Sato had an income of $57,300. But Tokyo's top bar hostess on the Ginza, Miss Yoko Yamagu-chi was listed as having earned $59,700.

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TANAKA IS a leading candidate to succeed Sato when the premier retires this year. His front-running rival, foreign minister Takeo Fukuda, had an income of $35,800. The spate of real estate fortunes pushed one of Japan's most promient businessmen, Konosuke Matsushita, chairman of Matsushita Electric Industrial out of the top 10 for the first time. His income of $3.8 million earned him only 11th place. The family of Yukio Mish--t ima, the novelist who comniit-.

ted hara-kiri in late 1970, had an income of $327,000 compared with $90,300 the year of his death. One of the more unusual fortunes, is that of Sohu Teshigawara who drew $1.4 million from his chain of schools in traditional Japanese flower arrangement. But Teshigawara has had widely publicized difficulties with the tax authorities. 9 SAVE 25.59! 135.47 Bunting 3-pc. patio sets By JOHN M.

LEE 1972. N. V. Times Service TOKYO A 62-year-old real estate a in northeastern Japan had the largest income in the country last year, a startling $12.6 million, and paid tax on most of it at a rate of only 14 per cent. The details were spelled out this week by Japan's National Tax Administration agency which tells all with an annual list of the nation's biggest incomes.

Everyone who makes more than 10 million yet equivalent to about $32,500 is listed by name. NOW ONE seems to question such things as the invasion of privacy, and 80,000 people are presumably basking in the glory of being listed this year. However, the fact that 95 out of the top 100 incomes in 1971 arose from real estate transactions has evoked criticism of the government's land policies, including favorable tax treatment for landowners. Since there is an acute shortage of land for development in this country and real estate prices have soared to outrageous levels, the government embarked on a program of tax incentives to encourage landowners to put their holdings on the market. However, the resulting windfalls and some abuses have stirred protests.

THE MAN with the $12.6 million income, Hyoma Seki, earned most of his money by selling forest land he held to his own real estate company. His four sons also profited and earned places in the top 100 incomes, with the result thst the Seki family earned $19.7 million last year. Under the government incen-t i program, the earnings from real estate transactions are subject to only 10 per cent income tax and 4 per cent resident tax. Taxes on salaries and dividend? are far more stringent. For example, Shokicki Ueh-ara, president of Taisho Pharmaceutical Co.

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