"Earth-pressing oil" may have many food safety risks

New Year's Day and Spring Festival are coming soon, and many families have to stock up on kitchen ingredients, among which cooking oil is essential

Here, the Hanzhong Municipal Market Supervision Bureau reminds consumers that the so-called "soil oil pressing" generally refers to the roasting of rapeseed, peanuts and other oil crops in small oil pressing workshops, and then pouring them into traditional oil presses.

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There are many impurities and volatile components in the soil-pressed oil.

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It is not easy to clean the equipment in the "earth oil extraction" workshop, and the residual oil stains and grain residues will become mildewed after oxidation

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The soil-pressed oil has not been processed by multiple refining processes, so the harmful substances cannot be removed, and there may be some heavy metal residues and pesticides mixed in it

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Benzopyrene is a common carcinogen in edible vegetable oil.

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The pollution of aflatoxins is quite extensive worldwide, including grains, nuts and seeds, and milk, etc.

During the production and processing of edible oil, regular food production enterprises control the content of harmful substances such as aflatoxins within the safety limits stipulated by national standards through raw material screening, alkali refining, adsorption and other measures, and will not affect consumption.

Buy edible oil, buy edible oil through regular and reliable channels, try to buy products produced by food production enterprises that have obtained food production licenses, pay attention to the labels and signs of the products, store them properly within the shelf life, and do not one-sided superstition of "pure natural" and "natural".