Food safety is a topic of high concern in recent years. Regarding the media’s doubts about “the current public’s lack of trust in food additivesâ€, Chen Xi, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Minister of Health, stated that at present, food additives are mainly involved in abuses, and the Ministry of Health will strengthen supervision with relevant departments, and some do not have necessary additives. Will gradually cancel. The abuse of unnecessary additives and inappropriate use of additives will also be banned.
In fact, the removal of unnecessary food additives has begun. On March 1st, the Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued a joint announcement that, as of May 1, this year, it is forbidden to add benzoyl peroxide and flour to flour production (ie flour whiteners). , Food additive production enterprises may not produce or sell flour brighteners. The once flourishing flour whitening agent finally came to an end.
In fact, when the whitening agent was born, that is, to make the flour look good, it was purely for “faceâ€, and now people’s health and safety demands have been enhanced, and with the improvement of wheat varieties and the level of flour processing technology, existing The processing technology has been able to meet the needs of the whiteness of flour, white is the same, but also whitening agents do!
To remove the whiteness of the whitening agent, not only to restore the flour to innocence, but also to consumers in health and safety, said to the deep, you can also feed food additives with the necessary fair and just image. You should know that Minister of Health Chen Hao said that the main problem of current food additives is "abuse". The word "abuse" is used to refer to things like flour brighteners that are used in the field of food additives. Of course, they also include excessive quantities. Or do not use additives as prescribed. It is the existence of these two “indiscriminate†(ie “unnecessaryâ€) food additives that are often misunderstood and suffer from incompetence.
Scientifically and practically speaking, despite the above-mentioned “unnecessary†problems in food additives and the resulting doubts about their reasonableness, we must emphasize that food additives are the product of the food industry and have been born from now to the present. Even the long-term future has the necessity of its existence. This is undeniable. Food additives have greatly promoted the development of the food industry and have been hailed as the soul of the modern food industry. This is a fact that no longer needs to prove.
As an ordinary consumer, some of the benefits of food additives should also be able to say one or two, for example, conducive to food preservation, prevent deterioration, improve the sensory properties of foods, maintain or increase the nutritional value of foods, and increase the variety and convenience of foods. Wait. Based on the understanding of the rationality and necessity of its overall existence, and on the premise of this, then our correct attitude toward food additives should be positive and advancing with the times.
The fact that food additives suffer from inaccurate performances is in fact not manifested in their attitudes. We know that as long as additives are used in accordance with the relevant national regulations, it is safe and non-destructive to health. The reason why many people in the society have formed the concept that additives are harmful to health is mainly because some unscrupulous merchants do not strictly follow national regulations, so that The problem of excessive additives often occurs, which inevitably leads to product failure, which makes it easier for people to draw equal signs between “food additives†and “nonconformitiesâ€. Obviously, the root cause of the problem is not the preservative itself but its use. There are still some businesses that have seized the mentality of people's distrust of additives and have advocated non-scientific arguments such as “adding no food additives†to delude people's hearts and make people misunderstand food additives.
Therefore, to eliminate the misunderstanding of the people and establish a proper market image for food additives, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision over the production and use of food additives. It is also necessary to strengthen popularization and education about food additives, and to make sure that there are no conflicts between the two issues. Of course, one of the most pragmatic “broken†tasks is to solve the problem of “unnecessaryâ€, and the most important first step is to assess the risk of food additives in accordance with the provisions of the Food Safety Law. Now this work has begun step by step. It is reported that in order to strengthen the follow-up assessment of international food additive standards and supplement and improve China's food additive standards, a total of 95 new food additive standards were formulated and issued in 2010, and there are currently seven new food additive standards and 58 newly designated food products. Additive standards will be announced soon.
This is a good start, and we therefore have reason to expect a better result.
In fact, the removal of unnecessary food additives has begun. On March 1st, the Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued a joint announcement that, as of May 1, this year, it is forbidden to add benzoyl peroxide and flour to flour production (ie flour whiteners). , Food additive production enterprises may not produce or sell flour brighteners. The once flourishing flour whitening agent finally came to an end.
In fact, when the whitening agent was born, that is, to make the flour look good, it was purely for “faceâ€, and now people’s health and safety demands have been enhanced, and with the improvement of wheat varieties and the level of flour processing technology, existing The processing technology has been able to meet the needs of the whiteness of flour, white is the same, but also whitening agents do!
To remove the whiteness of the whitening agent, not only to restore the flour to innocence, but also to consumers in health and safety, said to the deep, you can also feed food additives with the necessary fair and just image. You should know that Minister of Health Chen Hao said that the main problem of current food additives is "abuse". The word "abuse" is used to refer to things like flour brighteners that are used in the field of food additives. Of course, they also include excessive quantities. Or do not use additives as prescribed. It is the existence of these two “indiscriminate†(ie “unnecessaryâ€) food additives that are often misunderstood and suffer from incompetence.
Scientifically and practically speaking, despite the above-mentioned “unnecessary†problems in food additives and the resulting doubts about their reasonableness, we must emphasize that food additives are the product of the food industry and have been born from now to the present. Even the long-term future has the necessity of its existence. This is undeniable. Food additives have greatly promoted the development of the food industry and have been hailed as the soul of the modern food industry. This is a fact that no longer needs to prove.
As an ordinary consumer, some of the benefits of food additives should also be able to say one or two, for example, conducive to food preservation, prevent deterioration, improve the sensory properties of foods, maintain or increase the nutritional value of foods, and increase the variety and convenience of foods. Wait. Based on the understanding of the rationality and necessity of its overall existence, and on the premise of this, then our correct attitude toward food additives should be positive and advancing with the times.
The fact that food additives suffer from inaccurate performances is in fact not manifested in their attitudes. We know that as long as additives are used in accordance with the relevant national regulations, it is safe and non-destructive to health. The reason why many people in the society have formed the concept that additives are harmful to health is mainly because some unscrupulous merchants do not strictly follow national regulations, so that The problem of excessive additives often occurs, which inevitably leads to product failure, which makes it easier for people to draw equal signs between “food additives†and “nonconformitiesâ€. Obviously, the root cause of the problem is not the preservative itself but its use. There are still some businesses that have seized the mentality of people's distrust of additives and have advocated non-scientific arguments such as “adding no food additives†to delude people's hearts and make people misunderstand food additives.
Therefore, to eliminate the misunderstanding of the people and establish a proper market image for food additives, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision over the production and use of food additives. It is also necessary to strengthen popularization and education about food additives, and to make sure that there are no conflicts between the two issues. Of course, one of the most pragmatic “broken†tasks is to solve the problem of “unnecessaryâ€, and the most important first step is to assess the risk of food additives in accordance with the provisions of the Food Safety Law. Now this work has begun step by step. It is reported that in order to strengthen the follow-up assessment of international food additive standards and supplement and improve China's food additive standards, a total of 95 new food additive standards were formulated and issued in 2010, and there are currently seven new food additive standards and 58 newly designated food products. Additive standards will be announced soon.
This is a good start, and we therefore have reason to expect a better result.
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