Taiwan’s and even the world’s unforeseen consequences and the severity of the “Plasticizer Incident” in Taiwan have occurred. Contaminated food categories include beverages, health foods, breads, cakes, etc. up to thousands of species (still under investigation), for up to 30 years!

This incident was caused by the production of clouding agent (a food additive mainly used in Taiwan, equivalent to a mixture of two kinds of food additives such as "thickener" and "stabilizer" in the mainland) by the bad producer "Geng Shen". The palm oil was one of the most important raw materials for the clouding agent, which was costly as much as five times as much as plasticizers. Plasticizers were chemical substances commonly used in plastic materials and were identified as the fourth toxicity in Taiwan. Chemical substances are harmful to the human body. In short, they use unqualified food additives.

Plasticizers migrate from plastic wrappers to contaminate food

The incident was due to the abuse of plasticizers. However, at the same time, we also saw that plasticizers not only caused pollution by directly adding to foods, but also migrated from plastic packaging materials into foods, resulting in foods. Pollution. Some time ago, the prohibition and removal of bisphenol A milk bottles was caused by the leakage of harmful substances from the plastic packaging materials to create “harmful foods”.

Recently, an associate professor of South China Agricultural University published a paper saying that due to the dissolution of plasticizers in packaging, instant noodles and instant rice flour have different degrees of plasticizer contamination. It is understood that in addition to the above two products, the packaging of meat, rice, edible oil and other products may also dissolve plasticizers under certain conditions, affecting food quality. An expert from the Shanghai Food Research Institute told the reporter that if plasticizers are used as instant noodles packaging materials, due to the special properties of plasticizers, it is indeed easy to attract grease products such as noodles, and some plasticizers will The migration occurred and entered the food. So, the consumption of oil barrels became more and more worrying.

A chemical analyst pointed out that although there are many researches in China related to the migration of plasticizers to foods, the determination of plasticizers in food packaging, etc., but for chemical products such as plasticizers in real food The study of the migration situation is still not enough. Although the magnitude of the harm is not measured well, the existence of the harm is currently at least uncontroversial.

Experts interpret the "Food Safety Law" food plastic packaging materials regulations

Since June 1, 2009, the mandatory national standard "Hygienic Standards for the Use of Additives for Food Containers and Packaging Materials" (GB9685-2008) has been formally implemented. The standard was jointly issued by the Ministry of Health and the National Standardization Management Committee on September 9, 2008.

The number of additives approved for use in this standard has been expanded from tens of the original standards to 959, and lists of approved additives, scope of use, maximum use amount, specific migration volume (SML), or maximum residue are listed as appendices. Quantity (QM) and other restrictive requirements. In addition, the new standard also increases the use of additives, and requires additives for food packaging materials to meet the packaging materials in contact with food, under the recommended conditions of use, the migration of additives to food must not endanger human health and must not make food Changes in traits, etc. At the same time, the use of additives should be minimized to achieve the desired effect.

Executive Vice President and Secretary-General Dong Jinshi of the International Food Packaging Association stated that China's commonly used food packaging materials include plastics, paper, metal, glass, rubber, ceramics, and aluminum-plastic composite packaging materials, and China's market access to food packaging is In phases, the form is the implementation of production license management. At present, China only implements production license management for food plastic packaging products, and food packaging products will enter the market from September 1 this year, after which ceramics, glass, metal, rubber and other food packaging products and containers It is also necessary to gradually implement production license management.

Dong Jinshi introduced that plastic packaging products for food use have been subject to voluntary certification since 2007. Since January 1, 2008, they have been investigated without a license and have entered compulsory certification. According to the provisions of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, enterprises that have not obtained a production license must not produce 3 types of 39 kinds of food plastic packaging products, and the operators cannot operate uncertified products. The reason for the first batch of plastic products is that plastic packaging products have more problems and there are more manufacturers. Up to now, there are more than 6,000 certified companies that use plastic packaging for foods, and about 30,000 companies that produce food packaging plastics in the country, which means that only one-fifth of the companies are currently certified.

The incident indirectly sounded alarm for the safety of food packaging materials

There is a sense of safety, regulations and standards. It is expected that the safety of food packaging materials, especially plastic packaging materials for foods, will be guaranteed better and better. Taiwan's "plastic-related" incident also indirectly sounds the alarm for the safety of food packaging materials. To further improve, supervision needs to be further improved, and manufacturers need to live up to the trust of consumers and assume security responsibility.

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