China faces the challenge of food pollution

Introduction: the Ministry of Health said recently that China is facing more and more challenges from food pollution Traditional food pollution, such as pesticide pollution and Salmonella pollution, continue to exist A series of new food pollution in developed countries also occur in China Food borne diseases caused by microorganisms are the most important factors affecting China's food safety, and the source pollution of agricultural cultivation and breeding industry poses an increasingly serious threat to food safety, the Ministry of Health said Some unlicensed enterprises, self-employed businesses and family workshops in small and medium-sized cities, towns and the junction of large and medium-sized cities in China are the distribution centers for food counterfeiting Industrial pollution leads to environmental deterioration and poses a serious threat to food safety, such as the occurrence of food borne diseases caused by water pollution, and the pollution of sea area directly affects the health quality of seafood With the progress of the times, the application of new raw materials and new processes in food industry has brought many new problems to food safety, such as the application of modern biotechnology, probiotics and enzyme preparation in food, the development of new food resources, etc With the progress of science and technology and the development of testing technology, some people from the Ministry of health put forward that previously unknown toxic substances are gradually recognized, such as Ruan virus, which causes mad cow disease, dioxin pollution in food, trichloropropanol pollution in soy sauce, etc.