"Hormone fruit": who dares to taste this "fresh"
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Last Update: 2004-11-30
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Introduction: green watermelon, yellow pear, Purple Pearl like grape, red litchi Summer is the season of fruit, but this year, there are strange things in eating fruit: in Jinan and Xi'an, there are three or four year old boys and girls who suffer from the sexual precocity symptoms of boys' long beard and girls' bulging breasts due to eating too much precocious "hormone fruit" People are asking: how many fruits can make people feel relieved to eat? Green watermelon, yellow pear, Purple Pearl grape, red litchi In the hot summer, all kinds of fruits waft in bursts or strong or light fruit fragrance, constantly entering thousands of households However, while people are tasting delicious food, there are also some disharmonious sounds: in Jinan and Xi'an, there are three or four year old boys and girls who suffer from precocious sexual precocity due to eating too much precocious "hormone fruit" Many people can't help asking: how many fruits can make people feel relieved to eat? When can this "hormone fruit" be eliminated? Recently, the reporter interviewed relevant departments on this topic Medical experts: "hormone fruit" easy to make children precocious eat hormone containing precocious fruit really can make children precocious? Chai, director of the Pediatrics Department of Shenyang children's Hospital, said: "there are some young patients with precocious puberty here, but it's hard to say whether they are caused by eating 'hormone fruit' However, if the fruit is injected with gonadotropin, it will definitely be detrimental to the growth and development of the children who eat this fruit, and may easily lead to precocious puberty Professor Wang Fuxian from the Nutrition Department of the second hospital of the Chinese Medical University said anxiously that eating fruits that have been "ripened" and kept fresh is very harmful to the human body, especially the drugs used for "ripening" contain estrogen, which will make the female precocious and the male sexual characteristics are not obvious Therefore, before eating this kind of fruit, it must be cleaned and soaked in warm water for a period of time Many medical experts generally believe that there are indeed factors around children that lead to their precocious puberty or abnormal sexual development If estrogen is added to fruits and vegetables, it will indeed grow brighter, but it will also have side effects on the human body, especially on children For example, if you eat pork with a kind of fattening feed called "several months fat", you will have hormones in it In theory, it will have an impact on the growing children Experts remind citizens to keep children away from "hormone food" as much as possible, eat less fruits with abnormal shape, beautiful appearance and color, and plain taste, and more seafood and "green food" that are relatively safe for children Horticulturist: up to a dozen hormones can be used in the growth of a fruit tree, which can increase production by 20% after the use of hormones "The state has no legislation on plant growth regulators." "It is forbidden to use it," said Liu, associate professor, Department of horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University "When agricultural university guides farmers to cultivate fruit trees, it has requirements on the position, period and concentration of the growth regulator For example, it can be used in the development period, flowering period and young fruit period of the trees, and it is forbidden to use it in the picking period of fruit trees In our opinion, it is not suitable to use ethicil (aging promoting agent) in ripening fruit to promote red color, which is harmful to human body "At present, plant growth regulators have been widely used in vegetable and fruit planting From seedling to maturity, a fruit tree can use from zero to more than ten kinds of hormones, including cytokinin, auxin, rooting hormone, inhibitors and dozens of other categories The commonly used ones are gibberellin (to promote development), expander (to grow large fruit), ethili (to promote aging and reddening), etc Hormone can increase the yield by about 20%, increase the fruit setting rate and fruit size Nowadays, more hormones are used in grapes and tomatoes Liu said: "now most of these hormones are used in the early growth of fruit trees and act on different periods of plant growth As for whether there is any residual hormone in the fruit at last, we haven't done experiments, but we can't deny that there is some influence So how much harm does excess hormone do to human body? How much is the plant's ability to degrade hormones? What is the relationship between precocious fruit and sexual precocity of human body and animals? At present, there is no research in this field "Fruit market: a small part of the fruit market is in Shenyang fruit group, a large-scale fruit wholesale and distribution center in Northeast China, where more than 50 varieties of 2000 tons of fruit are sold in one day Zhao manager of the business department told the reporter that with the development of science, a small number of fruits are treated with ripening agents, expanding agents and preservatives, such as strawberries that grow like small steamed bread in the early stage, giant kiwifruit with square edges, most of them are treated with expanding agents, pink or even red litchi, immature melon seeds, sweet but red watermelons, etc., and most of them are treated with accelerating agents It's not good for people to take the ripening agent, but it can be put on the market 10 days ahead of time after injection Farmers can increase production and earn more, and it's not good to stop or manage Moreover, these fruits come from all over the country, and it's useless to manage other places here Now we can only rely on publicity No one has bought the fruit after the news media publicity, and the natural fruit farmers are no longer using medicine If we want to solve this problem fundamentally, we can only check the production If we rely on inspection, we can't test such a large number It is reported that only the imported and exported fruits have passed quarantine in China, and the fruits facing the domestic market do not have this gateway Moreover, due to the gap between China's food quality and health standards and the international market, the competitiveness of China's fruits in the international market is insufficient, and the export quantity is not commensurate with the domestic production capacity Relevant departments: we have paid attention to it, but it is very difficult to manage What are the Countermeasures of relevant departments for "hormone fruit"? According to Wang, director of the provincial Food Inspection Institute, there are hundreds of national health standards in China's food hygiene law, but there are no relevant indicators for various kinds of growth hormone, so they are not included in the examination Mr Li of Shenyang plant protection station said that this phenomenon has attracted the attention of relevant departments Shenyang is studying and promoting the pollution-free vegetable and fruit project, and Shenyang plant protection station is preparing to manage this year, but this kind of management is quite difficult Department of Agriculture: we should recommend safe food to the people, guide the consumption of "green food" in the new fashion future, and non polluting and nutritious natural "green food" will be popular So what is "green food"? Zhang, director of the green food office of the Provincial Department of agriculture, said that environment (soil, water and gas), products, technical standards, packaging, storage and transportation are the four major standards of "green food", among which the technical standards also restrict the use of fertilizers, pesticides, food feed additives, veterinary drugs, aquaculture drugs, etc At the same time, "green food" is divided into AA level and a level, and "green food" of AA level is not allowed to use chemical synthetic fertilizer, pesticide and any hormone at all; while "green food" of a level is limited to use chemical synthetic fertilizer, pesticide limited variety, concentration and time, and can use growth regulating hormone extracted from biological sources (not chemical synthesis) In the human food chain, excessive hormones contained in meat, poultry, eggs, milk, vegetables and fruits will "accumulate" in the human body If a woman is pregnant, they can also be passed on to the fetus Therefore, growth promoters and antibiotics should be used in a limited amount in animals and plants But at present, there is no effective control method for "hormone food" Generally speaking, ripening agents such as YiXiLi and contraceptive No At the end of last November, the State Administration of internal trade, the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of health, the Ministry of railways, the State Environmental Protection Administration and the State Administration of Quality Supervision announced to all walks of life that the "three green projects" with the main contents of opening up green channels, cultivating green markets and promoting green consumption were officially launched During the "Tenth Five Year Plan", the "three green projects" will open 10 green channels, build 100 green markets and create thousands of kinds The brand of "green food" has formed thousands of "green" retail stores It is believed that with the popularity of "green food", the "hormone food" will eventually become a street mouse and be eliminated.
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