Additives into affect food safety important factors we can eat what?

People's Daily overseas edition

From "SanLu milk powder" to remit "pure", from "lean dyeing steamed bread" to guizhou "lime chicken"... Barrage and food additives or related "seemingly" relevant food safety accidents, and let the people felt uncomfortable, even "talk about change," people color additives starting to ask: "we can eat what?" A data shows, at present, China's food additives have 23 categories, more than 2,000 varieties, including the flavor, fragrance kind of harnessing 1800. Food additive became a influence the important factors to food safety.

New gb come

Foreign ministry recently released "relief use of food additives in food standards", "the mycotoxin set limit to", "pre packing food labels general rules", "honey" four new the national food safety standards, including provisions, all food additives in food labels must be clearly marked.

Health supervision bureau chief, said the fix, formulate standards, fully absorb international standards and other national standard experience, analyses and compares the codex alimentarius commission, the European Union international food, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, America and other countries of the food safety standards, combined with Chinese food production and consumption specific situations and food safety monitoring results and 'dietary exposure volume, but listen to adopt the opinion of all circles, reflected the food safety standards publicly, the principle of transparency.

In the use of food additives, including a standard of food additives, food processing AIDS, glue mother sugar with spices based agent and food 2314 cultivars, such as involving 16 categories of food, 23 functional category. The revised pre packaged food labels general rules "requirements, all food additives must be labeled label, not against the contents of nutrition science knowledge, also should not have hinted that prevention and cure disease function of content; By use of commodity names should not misleading consumers; Explicit production date and shelf-life labeling regulations; JingXiaoZhe prescribed food producers, the name, address and contact way labeling requirements; Increased to human body labeled may recommend allergy-causing substance requirements, etc. Rules can't say no specific, but will it really eliminate food safety accidents occur again, remains to be seen.

Supervision must be in position

Health supervision bureau officials say, food producers and operators shall, in accordance with the laws, regulations and standards organization production management, take effective measures to ensure safety, bear the responsibility of food safety. Therefore, food enterprise according to legal provisions relevant food additive using standard, not purchasing don't use non-food material, adhere to the enterprise honesty and self-discipline, is preventing the illegal add non-food material premise and basis. Food safety supervision department in accordance with the law now responsibilities of food production, circulation and catering link strengthening the supervision, urging the production and business operation entities implement enterprise's responsibility.

From the current food safety in the event has been exposed, real by health supervision department check yourself found few, most are seemed to advance by media or net friend found, again by health supervision department investigation. Therefore, it is a strict system, but also someone to implement, this is the key to the problem.

"Food safety regulations for the implementation of the regulations, the administrative departments for public health should be based on the disease information and regulatory information, to find additional or might add to the food in the edible chemicals and other hazards to human health substance, publish catalogues and detection methods, namely" blacklisting ". The purpose of the formulation "blacklist, is to inform consumers wary of the purchase or do not purchase the food, and then the illegal enterprise by the relevant departments for its investigation and evidence collection, republished corresponding punishment. The general office of the state council issued the documents said recently on non-food material of a clampdown, focusing on the blacklist of enterprise supervision. Try to avoid and reduce food safety accidents happened repeatedly.

Strictly according to standards

If no additive, people eat every day to things and back to the 1950s before. The Chinese CDC nutrition and food safety institute strict satellite says that in the past people can eat to seasonal fruits, season, only can make a cans. As technology is developing rapidly, and the people ate a lot of food into the many additives, new technology let people's life more colorful.

However, these supercomposing additive, whether for people's health brought problem?

Strict satellite expressed, in the revision of the use of food additives, standard already do systematic overall assessment, as long as reasonable scope in safety, we can feel free to eat, eat in the normal range of human body, not reasonable cause any harm. He said, in general, additive, is using standard through very conservative approach worked out, as long as in strict accordance with the national standards of additives in food to correct use of food additives, the human body is not harm.

Add the milk powder happened recently the melamine, chili additives Sudan red, add flour DiaoBaiKuai do not belong to the food additive, and belong to the poisonous and harmful material, carefully distinguish. (reporter yu jing UK)