Consumers are an important component in trading life. consumers must also have
their own rights. Protection for consumers is regulated in law, therefore, the
consumer has legal protection based on existing laws, namely consumer protection
law. In the consumer protection law regulates the rights that should be obtained by
consumers and the responsibilities of business actors. One of the responsibilities of
business actors is that it is prohibited to sell or distribute food containing
hazardous materials. However, in reality there are still many business actors who
are still misbehaving to use these hazardous materials as food additives. This
writing aims to determine how the legal protection for consumers against the use
of food additives. The method used in this paper is juridical normative with data
sources from secondary data consisting of primary legal materials in the form of
statutory regulations and secondary legal materials in the form of literature and
research results. The conclusion of this paper is that the government as a
representative of the community should be more critical of consumer protection
issues considering that the consumer protection law is already 20 years old