The seismic wave of plasticizers in Taiwan's food industry has continued to expand in the island. The food industry in distress has flowed from the initial beverage industry to the bakery industry such as bread, biscuits and cakes. Another Taiwanese media said that candy, ice cream, etc. may also be difficult to escape the "plasticization", because the Taichung City Health Bureau recently sampled 16 fruit flavored sauce (flavor) found that 6 samples were determined to be mixed with plasticizers, and the above products In the fixed color, set incense can not be separated from the essence. In addition to the food industry, plastic products, cosmetics, detergents, clothes, toys, flooring, and so on, the protagonist --- plasticizers are almost everywhere. In the words of Taiwan’s media, “Whatever is eaten, drunk, used, or wiped may contain plasticizers.†As of press time, China’s State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) issued a notice that the number of enterprises in Taiwan has increased to 282, and the number of contaminated products has increased to 945.
The Taiwan expert called this “the largest plasticizer pollution incident at present†and is gradually heating up as an international food safety incident. The United States, Canada, the Philippines, and other countries, in addition to all the Taiwan food involved in the case, also requires that all future Taiwan products must issue a safety inspection certificate before release. On the evening of June 1st, the Ministry of Health of China issued an emergency bulletin, listing a total of 17 kinds of plasticizers such as phthalic acid esters on the blacklist, and stipulated that from June 20 onwards, food sold on the mainland market would not only be To mark all additives on the package or box, please also indicate the content. In this regard, some experts commented that Taiwan's plasticizers have been widely used in foods and medicines for many years. Its influence is like “copying melamine,†but this may be the tip of the iceberg of food safety issues, and more food safety issues. Also need our attention.
What is plasticizer in the end, why is it always hidden in our side and not found, how can we eliminate the harm it brings to the human body? This issue of Life Times reporter gives you an in-depth coverage of the plasticizer incident.
In the outbreak, “careful mother†accidentally discovered that on May 23, the entire Taiwanese food industry experienced a severe “earthquake†that was rare for 30 years. The source of the "earthquake" was the mother of two children and an ordinary female inspector.
This 52-year-old mother, Yang Xing, is an inspector of the Food and Drug Administration of the “Department of Health†in Taiwan and has 26 years of inspection experience. Luo Jifang, leader of her leadership and research team, said that she was a “big boss, but he was very careful when he started the experimentâ€. And it was her carefulness that will completely uncover the 30 years of plasticizer contamination that has been hidden in Taiwan.
One day in early March, during the crackdown on counterfeit medicine in Taiwan, Ms. Yang began the inspection work as usual. On the same day, she was in charge of testing a type of probiotic that was sent for inspection by the Tainan City Health Bureau and claimed to be able to lose weight, whether it contained western medicine or amphetamines for weight loss. Ms. Yang has long been accustomed to such routine inspections. She uses a thin-layer analyzer to detect probiotic powders and then tests it with a gas chromatograph. At the end of the test, abnormal peak signals suddenly appeared on the instrument. It is not said that this is not her scope of responsibility, but as a mother who has long been concerned about children's food, this abnormal signal in the probiotic strained her nerves. She quickly compared the signal with the gallery and found that it was an icon of plasticizer DEHP. This is a substance that should not appear in food. Sensitivity of occupation makes Ms. Yang feel that this is not an ordinary thing. “Is it possible that the plastic packaging agent was released from the probiotic packaging?†For prudent reasons, the careful mother took another two weeks to test the probiotics' film packaging material with infrared rays. The results showed that the PE material of the film was not A large amount of plasticizer DEHP will be dissolved, but the concentration of the plasticizer DEHP in the tested probiotic foods is as high as 600 ppm, far exceeding the Taiwanese per capita daily intake standard of 1.029 ppm. This result surprised Ms. Yang because DEHP is a carcinogen and long-term intake can harm health.
Soon, the Department of Health informed the Taiwan prosecutors of the news. The two prosecutors responsible for this case, Zheng Zhiwen and Ye Jiancheng grew up with the parents of small street vendors in the vegetable market. They are very aware of how some black-haired businessmen use low-quality food additives to produce low-cost foods. He went to investigating the case. What is even more shocking is that in many sports foods such as sports drinks, fruit juices, jelly, goat milk tablets, etc., the food most frequently eaten by teenagers has been found to contain a large amount of plasticizers. Afterwards, the prosecutor followed the clues provided by the probiotics manufacturer and eventually locked the source of plasticizers in the largest supplier of clouding agents in Taiwan. At this point, the world’s first plasticizer DEHP contamination incident was completely exposed. After the incident was exposed, Ms. Yang’s carefulness and conscience were strongly praised by the Taiwanese people. People even called her “hero motherâ€. However, because of this huge impact, the “Department of Health†has not allowed her to directly face the media for protection purposes.
It is understood that the plasticizers discovered in Taiwan have been harmed for 30 years. The plasticizers found in Taiwan are mainly derived from food additives—given cloud additives. Almost all of the “problems arising from the cloud†have come from “prolonging spicesâ€. "The company" and "Binghan Spice Chemical Company" can be said that the two companies almost monopolized Taiwan's clouding agent market. After the incident was revealed, Lai Junjie, the head of the company, and Chen Zhexiong, the person in charge of the Bingham Company, were detained by the police for the first time. During the interrogation, they also made a lot of amazing insiders.
Mr. Lai Junjie, the person in charge of the company, is 57 years old. He runs the largest cloud-fabricating agent factory in Taiwan, and is also known as Yanyan Food Company, which was seized in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. Lai Junjie first revealed that his company's clouding agent has been adding plasticizers for 30 years. Clouding agent is a relatively common food additive, which allows the beverage to avoid the oil and moisture layer, looks more even, and can improve the food texture. It is generally made by adding and mixing various substances such as palm oil and emulsifier. More than 30 years ago, Lai Junjie and Chen Zhexiong learned the technology of replacing palm oil with plasticizers because the price of plasticizer was one-fifth of that of palm oil. cut costs. But Lai Junjie's plasticizers are cheaper, so they have better sales, but they are also more toxic. Chen Zhexiong’s products are even more sophisticated, and there are many well-known large companies among customers. Lai Junjie himself confessed that before 2006, he added a more toxic plasticizer, and only after 2006 began to use plasticizer DEHP that was exposed today.
With the in-depth investigation of the case, the variety of products involved in plasticizers has been continuously refreshed. From beverages to pharmaceuticals and health products, the number has increased to 945. On June 5, Lai Junjie confessed that there are seven well-known sellers of jams, breads, and cakes in Taiwan, and they are also major customers of their company's plasticizers. Since then, the food baking industry has fallen.
In fact, Taiwan has always been known for its strict food inspections. The relevant departments will regularly test the food on the market. However, the reason why plasticizers escaped detection, hidden for 30 years, mainly because plasticizers do not belong to food additives, the testing directory does not provide for testing, which allows unscrupulous companies to find a loophole. If not for the conscience of the mother above, plasticizers are still quietly endangering the people. The exposure of this incident was a wake-up call to the global food safety field. Taiwan's relevant departments are formulating and improving the food inspection system to eliminate such incidents.
What is the culprit plasticizer in the end? The “culprit†of this incident—plasticizer (also called plasticizer) was originally a kind of polymer material additives. It has not only been widely used in the production of plastic products for many years, but also It will be added to rubber, adhesives, cellulose, resins, cables, concrete, cement and gypsum and other materials, thereby increasing the flexibility of the material, in particular, can increase the toughness and elasticity of plastic products and make them more durable.
There are many types of plasticizers, and the most used ones are phthalates. This odorless liquid is mainly used in PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic products. The plasticizers exposed in Taiwan this time are DEHP, DBP, and DINP. DIBP belongs to this category. Since its use in the late 1920s, phthalates soon replaced camphor, which was used as a plasticizer and smelled and volatile. In 1935, with the industrialization of PVC production, phthalates were used more widely as plasticizers and gradually became the main body of plasticizers, accounting for about 80% of the total output of plasticizers. At present, DEHP is mainly used in PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic products, such as cling film, food packaging, toys and so on. Many medical plastic products, such as catheters, infusion bags, etc., also contain this substance. However, all plasticizers, including phthalates, are petrochemical products and can only be used in industry. They are not legal food additives at all and are therefore prohibited from being added to any foods, medicines and health products.
Harmful damage to the reproductive system With the increasing use of plasticizers, plasticizers now exist in every aspect of daily life such as air, soil and water. However, Liu Zhaoping, a researcher at the National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that micro-ingestion of plasticizers has no significant effect on human health. The World Health Organization, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Union all stated that it is safe to take DEHP with a long-term intake of 1.5, 2.4, and 3.0 milligrams per person per kilogram of body weight per day. DINP is even less toxic, and it is safe even if it ingests 9.0 mg daily. Therefore, accidental consumption of small amounts of foods contaminated with DEHP or DINP does not pose a health hazard. Moreover, plasticizers can be excreted through metabolism, so they need not be overly scared.
The reason why the plasticizer incident in Taiwan has a significant impact is that Liu Zhaoping believes that it is illegally added to the clouding agent and far exceeds the World Health Organization's limit standard. “The plasticizer DEHP has estrogen-like effects, and the large intake may interfere with the normal endocrine function of the human body,†said Prof. Wu Xie, endocrinologist of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking University. Li Zhiheng, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, and Professor Sun Yuxi, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University All said that if plasticizers accumulate in the body for a long time, their toxicity is much higher than that of melamine, which can cause hormone imbalances and lead to a decline in human immunity. The most important thing is to influence reproductive ability and cause children to be confused about gender, including genital shortening and sexuality. Not obvious, precocious children are induced. In particular, male infants who are still in the mother's body are exposed to DEHP through the blood of the pregnant woman, resulting in greater harm. In addition, the research team of the National Taiwan Normal University further found that plasticizers can cause genotoxicity and harm human genes. Long-term consumption has the greatest risk of cardiovascular disease, and the liver and urinary system are also “injured.†Pass the gene to the next generation. Although it is currently impossible to prove whether plasticizers are carcinogenic to humans, it is clear that animals will have a cancerous response, so be careful.
It is necessary to deal with the fact that all governments have scrutinized the ever-expanding state of affairs and let the Taiwan authorities fall into a state of exhaustion. They passed the draft amendments to some provisions of the Food Hygiene Management Law as quickly as possible, raising the original maximum fine of 300,000 to NT$6 million (RMB 1 and NTD 4.4); those that cause harm to human health will be punished 5 years imprisonment, criminal detention, and a fine of NT 10 million. The second step is to strengthen inspections and publish all unqualified products on major supermarkets, shopping malls, and websites so that people can make inquiries and purchases and minimize the impact. The people in Taiwan can send their food to the hygiene inspection department for free testing. Taiwan’s environmental protection department also plans to reclassify plasticizers from the “fourth poison†to “second-class poisonsâ€. Taiwan’s education department is discussing the addition of “projects that have doubts about the effects of plasticizers†in primary school students’ “health check consentâ€.
Related departments in the mainland are also continuing to take measures to strengthen the inspection and testing of imported foods in Taiwan, and to seal off the products involved in the case, and to suspend the import of Taiwan's notified products. On June 6, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine renewed the list of enterprises and related products that were affected by plasticizer pollution in Taiwan. The number of problematic enterprises increased to 282, and related products increased to 945. There are six categories in the list: sports drinks; juice drinks; tea beverages; jams, fruit pulp or jelly; capsules in powdered form; additives. At the same time, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive inspection of relevant food and food additive manufacturers across the country, focusing on whether or not to purchase or use plasticizers phthalate esters, and whether or not to use “clouding agents†produced by Taiwanese companies. .
According to the Guangdong Provincial Food Safety Commission Office announced on June 2th, a Dongguan-based investment company “Dongguan City Yan Yan Food Co., Ltd.†additives were detected toxic plasticizer DEHP, the company has been put into production in April 2009 The monthly production of food additives is about 3,000 kilograms, and the products are sold to Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Dongguan and other places. At present, the legal representative of the company, Zhu Guodong, has been detained in accordance with the law, and 6 tons of food additive products and 0.6 tons of raw materials in stock have been sealed up.
In addition, the Ministry of Health included a total of 17 plasticizers such as phthalic acid esters on the list of “non-edible substances and abuse-prone food additives†and stipulated that foods sold on the mainland market should be available from June 20 onwards. Not only must all additive names be marked on the packaging or box, but also indicate the content.
At the same time, countermeasures have been taken around the world. In addition to the immediate suspension and suspension of the sale of Taiwanese products that may be contaminated with plasticizers, the Federal Food Inspection Agency of Canada issued a warning to require that uncontaminated Taiwanese products be removed from the country; The Philippines began screening foods produced in Taiwan.
Alert experts teach you how to stay away from the exposed products, plasticizers are also widely found in every corner of life. So far, domestic and foreign media have exposed the following items may also contain plasticizers: food packaging bags, plastic wrap and other food packaging; hair spray, lipstick, nail polish, lotion and other cosmetics; disposable plastic cups, plastic gloves, Daily necessities such as raincoats, shoes, leather imitations, bathroom curtains, etc.; and instant noodles, soups, powder cleaning supplies, medical equipment (injection syringes, blood bags, and medical plastic hoses), and children's toys.
So, are plasticizers that are ubiquitous, and are we hiding? Professor Wu Xueyi said that according to the modern lifestyle that we have formed, it is almost impossible to completely avoid plasticizers, but it is not necessary to overstress because the plasticizers that come into contact with normal life will not harm the human body. For example, he said, “Everybody knows that arsenic can poison people but small doses of arsenic can treat leukemia. The plasticizer DEHP also has the same effect on whether it can cause harm to the human body, depending on the amount of 'quantity.' It also proved that DEHP can eliminate itself in vitro within two days."
Of course, seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the basic criterion for people's healthy life. Taiwan’s relevant experts recommend that, before making a clear definition, in addition to avoiding the purchase of brands and food categories that have been “blacklistedâ€, try not to eat processed foods such as thick drinks. Dong Jinshi, deputy director of the International Food Packaging Association, reminded that if plastic products are marked with PVC, they contain plasticizers that require special attention when purchased and used. Especially when choosing children's products, buy plastic products that are too soft and too small to buy as little as possible. Foods with cling film must not be heated in microwave ovens, especially meat, because plasticizers will release toxic substances when they come in contact with grease. Wu Xueyi also suggested that people can learn to live a simple life and touch as few plastic products that may contain plasticizers as possible. For example, eat less foods packed in disposable plastics and choose porcelain dishes when you are holding food at home.
Finally, Zhao Zhaoping told reporters that in 2011 they had started a risk monitoring program to test whether the amount of DEHP dissolved in plastic barreled edible oil was within the safe value range. If the results were published on schedule.
The Taiwan expert called this “the largest plasticizer pollution incident at present†and is gradually heating up as an international food safety incident. The United States, Canada, the Philippines, and other countries, in addition to all the Taiwan food involved in the case, also requires that all future Taiwan products must issue a safety inspection certificate before release. On the evening of June 1st, the Ministry of Health of China issued an emergency bulletin, listing a total of 17 kinds of plasticizers such as phthalic acid esters on the blacklist, and stipulated that from June 20 onwards, food sold on the mainland market would not only be To mark all additives on the package or box, please also indicate the content. In this regard, some experts commented that Taiwan's plasticizers have been widely used in foods and medicines for many years. Its influence is like “copying melamine,†but this may be the tip of the iceberg of food safety issues, and more food safety issues. Also need our attention.
What is plasticizer in the end, why is it always hidden in our side and not found, how can we eliminate the harm it brings to the human body? This issue of Life Times reporter gives you an in-depth coverage of the plasticizer incident.
In the outbreak, “careful mother†accidentally discovered that on May 23, the entire Taiwanese food industry experienced a severe “earthquake†that was rare for 30 years. The source of the "earthquake" was the mother of two children and an ordinary female inspector.
This 52-year-old mother, Yang Xing, is an inspector of the Food and Drug Administration of the “Department of Health†in Taiwan and has 26 years of inspection experience. Luo Jifang, leader of her leadership and research team, said that she was a “big boss, but he was very careful when he started the experimentâ€. And it was her carefulness that will completely uncover the 30 years of plasticizer contamination that has been hidden in Taiwan.
One day in early March, during the crackdown on counterfeit medicine in Taiwan, Ms. Yang began the inspection work as usual. On the same day, she was in charge of testing a type of probiotic that was sent for inspection by the Tainan City Health Bureau and claimed to be able to lose weight, whether it contained western medicine or amphetamines for weight loss. Ms. Yang has long been accustomed to such routine inspections. She uses a thin-layer analyzer to detect probiotic powders and then tests it with a gas chromatograph. At the end of the test, abnormal peak signals suddenly appeared on the instrument. It is not said that this is not her scope of responsibility, but as a mother who has long been concerned about children's food, this abnormal signal in the probiotic strained her nerves. She quickly compared the signal with the gallery and found that it was an icon of plasticizer DEHP. This is a substance that should not appear in food. Sensitivity of occupation makes Ms. Yang feel that this is not an ordinary thing. “Is it possible that the plastic packaging agent was released from the probiotic packaging?†For prudent reasons, the careful mother took another two weeks to test the probiotics' film packaging material with infrared rays. The results showed that the PE material of the film was not A large amount of plasticizer DEHP will be dissolved, but the concentration of the plasticizer DEHP in the tested probiotic foods is as high as 600 ppm, far exceeding the Taiwanese per capita daily intake standard of 1.029 ppm. This result surprised Ms. Yang because DEHP is a carcinogen and long-term intake can harm health.
Soon, the Department of Health informed the Taiwan prosecutors of the news. The two prosecutors responsible for this case, Zheng Zhiwen and Ye Jiancheng grew up with the parents of small street vendors in the vegetable market. They are very aware of how some black-haired businessmen use low-quality food additives to produce low-cost foods. He went to investigating the case. What is even more shocking is that in many sports foods such as sports drinks, fruit juices, jelly, goat milk tablets, etc., the food most frequently eaten by teenagers has been found to contain a large amount of plasticizers. Afterwards, the prosecutor followed the clues provided by the probiotics manufacturer and eventually locked the source of plasticizers in the largest supplier of clouding agents in Taiwan. At this point, the world’s first plasticizer DEHP contamination incident was completely exposed. After the incident was exposed, Ms. Yang’s carefulness and conscience were strongly praised by the Taiwanese people. People even called her “hero motherâ€. However, because of this huge impact, the “Department of Health†has not allowed her to directly face the media for protection purposes.
It is understood that the plasticizers discovered in Taiwan have been harmed for 30 years. The plasticizers found in Taiwan are mainly derived from food additives—given cloud additives. Almost all of the “problems arising from the cloud†have come from “prolonging spicesâ€. "The company" and "Binghan Spice Chemical Company" can be said that the two companies almost monopolized Taiwan's clouding agent market. After the incident was revealed, Lai Junjie, the head of the company, and Chen Zhexiong, the person in charge of the Bingham Company, were detained by the police for the first time. During the interrogation, they also made a lot of amazing insiders.
Mr. Lai Junjie, the person in charge of the company, is 57 years old. He runs the largest cloud-fabricating agent factory in Taiwan, and is also known as Yanyan Food Company, which was seized in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. Lai Junjie first revealed that his company's clouding agent has been adding plasticizers for 30 years. Clouding agent is a relatively common food additive, which allows the beverage to avoid the oil and moisture layer, looks more even, and can improve the food texture. It is generally made by adding and mixing various substances such as palm oil and emulsifier. More than 30 years ago, Lai Junjie and Chen Zhexiong learned the technology of replacing palm oil with plasticizers because the price of plasticizer was one-fifth of that of palm oil. cut costs. But Lai Junjie's plasticizers are cheaper, so they have better sales, but they are also more toxic. Chen Zhexiong’s products are even more sophisticated, and there are many well-known large companies among customers. Lai Junjie himself confessed that before 2006, he added a more toxic plasticizer, and only after 2006 began to use plasticizer DEHP that was exposed today.
With the in-depth investigation of the case, the variety of products involved in plasticizers has been continuously refreshed. From beverages to pharmaceuticals and health products, the number has increased to 945. On June 5, Lai Junjie confessed that there are seven well-known sellers of jams, breads, and cakes in Taiwan, and they are also major customers of their company's plasticizers. Since then, the food baking industry has fallen.
In fact, Taiwan has always been known for its strict food inspections. The relevant departments will regularly test the food on the market. However, the reason why plasticizers escaped detection, hidden for 30 years, mainly because plasticizers do not belong to food additives, the testing directory does not provide for testing, which allows unscrupulous companies to find a loophole. If not for the conscience of the mother above, plasticizers are still quietly endangering the people. The exposure of this incident was a wake-up call to the global food safety field. Taiwan's relevant departments are formulating and improving the food inspection system to eliminate such incidents.
What is the culprit plasticizer in the end? The “culprit†of this incident—plasticizer (also called plasticizer) was originally a kind of polymer material additives. It has not only been widely used in the production of plastic products for many years, but also It will be added to rubber, adhesives, cellulose, resins, cables, concrete, cement and gypsum and other materials, thereby increasing the flexibility of the material, in particular, can increase the toughness and elasticity of plastic products and make them more durable.
There are many types of plasticizers, and the most used ones are phthalates. This odorless liquid is mainly used in PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic products. The plasticizers exposed in Taiwan this time are DEHP, DBP, and DINP. DIBP belongs to this category. Since its use in the late 1920s, phthalates soon replaced camphor, which was used as a plasticizer and smelled and volatile. In 1935, with the industrialization of PVC production, phthalates were used more widely as plasticizers and gradually became the main body of plasticizers, accounting for about 80% of the total output of plasticizers. At present, DEHP is mainly used in PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic products, such as cling film, food packaging, toys and so on. Many medical plastic products, such as catheters, infusion bags, etc., also contain this substance. However, all plasticizers, including phthalates, are petrochemical products and can only be used in industry. They are not legal food additives at all and are therefore prohibited from being added to any foods, medicines and health products.
Harmful damage to the reproductive system With the increasing use of plasticizers, plasticizers now exist in every aspect of daily life such as air, soil and water. However, Liu Zhaoping, a researcher at the National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that micro-ingestion of plasticizers has no significant effect on human health. The World Health Organization, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Union all stated that it is safe to take DEHP with a long-term intake of 1.5, 2.4, and 3.0 milligrams per person per kilogram of body weight per day. DINP is even less toxic, and it is safe even if it ingests 9.0 mg daily. Therefore, accidental consumption of small amounts of foods contaminated with DEHP or DINP does not pose a health hazard. Moreover, plasticizers can be excreted through metabolism, so they need not be overly scared.
The reason why the plasticizer incident in Taiwan has a significant impact is that Liu Zhaoping believes that it is illegally added to the clouding agent and far exceeds the World Health Organization's limit standard. “The plasticizer DEHP has estrogen-like effects, and the large intake may interfere with the normal endocrine function of the human body,†said Prof. Wu Xie, endocrinologist of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking University. Li Zhiheng, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, and Professor Sun Yuxi, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University All said that if plasticizers accumulate in the body for a long time, their toxicity is much higher than that of melamine, which can cause hormone imbalances and lead to a decline in human immunity. The most important thing is to influence reproductive ability and cause children to be confused about gender, including genital shortening and sexuality. Not obvious, precocious children are induced. In particular, male infants who are still in the mother's body are exposed to DEHP through the blood of the pregnant woman, resulting in greater harm. In addition, the research team of the National Taiwan Normal University further found that plasticizers can cause genotoxicity and harm human genes. Long-term consumption has the greatest risk of cardiovascular disease, and the liver and urinary system are also “injured.†Pass the gene to the next generation. Although it is currently impossible to prove whether plasticizers are carcinogenic to humans, it is clear that animals will have a cancerous response, so be careful.
It is necessary to deal with the fact that all governments have scrutinized the ever-expanding state of affairs and let the Taiwan authorities fall into a state of exhaustion. They passed the draft amendments to some provisions of the Food Hygiene Management Law as quickly as possible, raising the original maximum fine of 300,000 to NT$6 million (RMB 1 and NTD 4.4); those that cause harm to human health will be punished 5 years imprisonment, criminal detention, and a fine of NT 10 million. The second step is to strengthen inspections and publish all unqualified products on major supermarkets, shopping malls, and websites so that people can make inquiries and purchases and minimize the impact. The people in Taiwan can send their food to the hygiene inspection department for free testing. Taiwan’s environmental protection department also plans to reclassify plasticizers from the “fourth poison†to “second-class poisonsâ€. Taiwan’s education department is discussing the addition of “projects that have doubts about the effects of plasticizers†in primary school students’ “health check consentâ€.
Related departments in the mainland are also continuing to take measures to strengthen the inspection and testing of imported foods in Taiwan, and to seal off the products involved in the case, and to suspend the import of Taiwan's notified products. On June 6, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine renewed the list of enterprises and related products that were affected by plasticizer pollution in Taiwan. The number of problematic enterprises increased to 282, and related products increased to 945. There are six categories in the list: sports drinks; juice drinks; tea beverages; jams, fruit pulp or jelly; capsules in powdered form; additives. At the same time, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive inspection of relevant food and food additive manufacturers across the country, focusing on whether or not to purchase or use plasticizers phthalate esters, and whether or not to use “clouding agents†produced by Taiwanese companies. .
According to the Guangdong Provincial Food Safety Commission Office announced on June 2th, a Dongguan-based investment company “Dongguan City Yan Yan Food Co., Ltd.†additives were detected toxic plasticizer DEHP, the company has been put into production in April 2009 The monthly production of food additives is about 3,000 kilograms, and the products are sold to Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Dongguan and other places. At present, the legal representative of the company, Zhu Guodong, has been detained in accordance with the law, and 6 tons of food additive products and 0.6 tons of raw materials in stock have been sealed up.
In addition, the Ministry of Health included a total of 17 plasticizers such as phthalic acid esters on the list of “non-edible substances and abuse-prone food additives†and stipulated that foods sold on the mainland market should be available from June 20 onwards. Not only must all additive names be marked on the packaging or box, but also indicate the content.
At the same time, countermeasures have been taken around the world. In addition to the immediate suspension and suspension of the sale of Taiwanese products that may be contaminated with plasticizers, the Federal Food Inspection Agency of Canada issued a warning to require that uncontaminated Taiwanese products be removed from the country; The Philippines began screening foods produced in Taiwan.
Alert experts teach you how to stay away from the exposed products, plasticizers are also widely found in every corner of life. So far, domestic and foreign media have exposed the following items may also contain plasticizers: food packaging bags, plastic wrap and other food packaging; hair spray, lipstick, nail polish, lotion and other cosmetics; disposable plastic cups, plastic gloves, Daily necessities such as raincoats, shoes, leather imitations, bathroom curtains, etc.; and instant noodles, soups, powder cleaning supplies, medical equipment (injection syringes, blood bags, and medical plastic hoses), and children's toys.
So, are plasticizers that are ubiquitous, and are we hiding? Professor Wu Xueyi said that according to the modern lifestyle that we have formed, it is almost impossible to completely avoid plasticizers, but it is not necessary to overstress because the plasticizers that come into contact with normal life will not harm the human body. For example, he said, “Everybody knows that arsenic can poison people but small doses of arsenic can treat leukemia. The plasticizer DEHP also has the same effect on whether it can cause harm to the human body, depending on the amount of 'quantity.' It also proved that DEHP can eliminate itself in vitro within two days."
Of course, seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the basic criterion for people's healthy life. Taiwan’s relevant experts recommend that, before making a clear definition, in addition to avoiding the purchase of brands and food categories that have been “blacklistedâ€, try not to eat processed foods such as thick drinks. Dong Jinshi, deputy director of the International Food Packaging Association, reminded that if plastic products are marked with PVC, they contain plasticizers that require special attention when purchased and used. Especially when choosing children's products, buy plastic products that are too soft and too small to buy as little as possible. Foods with cling film must not be heated in microwave ovens, especially meat, because plasticizers will release toxic substances when they come in contact with grease. Wu Xueyi also suggested that people can learn to live a simple life and touch as few plastic products that may contain plasticizers as possible. For example, eat less foods packed in disposable plastics and choose porcelain dishes when you are holding food at home.
Finally, Zhao Zhaoping told reporters that in 2011 they had started a risk monitoring program to test whether the amount of DEHP dissolved in plastic barreled edible oil was within the safe value range. If the results were published on schedule.
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