Is eating raw eggs an IQ tax?

In order to comply with the upgrading trend of residents' food consumption, do a good job in the follow-up evaluation of new consumption hotspots, and strengthen the publicity and promotion of high-quality products, recently, Shanghai Pudong New Area Consumer Protection Committee launched a "raw egg" consumption survey activity.

Sampling product food safety clearance

According to the provisions of national food safety standards such as GB 2749-2015 National Food Safety Standard Eggs and Egg Products, GB 31650-2019 National Food Safety Standard Maximum Residue Limit of Veterinary Drugs in Foods, etc.

According to the Consumer Protection Committee of Pudong New Area, these 13 indicators represent high-risk items among various safety indicators, covering the indicators that have been tested by the national sampling inspection in recent years, as well as indicators that have not yet formulated limit requirements in the national standard but still have pollution risks

First, pollutant indicators, including lead, cadmium, mercury

The second is microbial indicators, including the total number of colonies, coliforms, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes

The third is veterinary drug residues, including 8 items of flumethiamycin (florfenicol), enrofloxacin (calculated by the sum of enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin), amantadine, metronidazole and sulfonamides

The indicators of 10 types of raw eggs and 2 types of ordinary eggs, including pollutants, microorganisms and veterinary drug residues and other 13 items were "undetected", especially 2 types of ordinary eggs, the same test standards , The same test results indicate that the product safety factor of this sampling inspection is relatively high, and the food safety is relatively guaranteed

Of the 10 raw egg samples compared this time, 3 of them are in compliance with the corporate standard, while the other 7 are in compliance with the "GB 2749-2015 National Food Safety Standard for Eggs and Egg Products"

Raw egg performance is not outstanding

The unit price of the 10 raw egg samples sampled this time is 1.

The domestic raw egg category is the same as the subdivided egg products such as chai eggs and soil eggs, and there is no clear national standard

According to the Consumer Protection Committee of Pudong New Area, most of the brand promotions for raw eggs on the market focus on "ensuring no salmonella".

The test results show that the 13 test indicators involved in the 10 raw egg products in this consumer survey are all within the standard requirements, indicating that most raw egg production enterprises can still keep the bottom line of safety and control food safety and quality.

However, from the perspective of marketing methods, domestic egg companies have entered the "raw food" category one after another.

The results of the consumption survey showed that the 13 test indicators of the two types of ordinary eggs that were sampled were also within the standard requirements.

Zhu Dazhou, deputy director of the Analysis and Research Office of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that raw eggs are very popular in Japan.

Consumers should not blindly follow suit

The Consumer Protection Committee of Pudong New Area stated that the enterprise is the first responsible person for the product.

The administrative department should increase the supervision of the production, processing, transportation, warehousing and other processes of raw eggs, and at the same time, according to the provisions of the Standardization Law, promote the establishment of industry and enterprise standards that are higher than the mandatory national standards, and promote the establishment of industry and enterprise standards with stricter industry standards.
Standards and corporate standards have effectively raised the threshold for industrial access, so that industries, enterprises and consumers have laws and regulations to follow
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Industry associations should further play a leading role, establish a set of scientific, rigorous, quantifiable and verifiable nutritional standards, improve the core competitiveness of the industry, and promote the healthy development of the raw egg industry
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The Consumer Protection Committee of Pudong New Area reminds consumers to buy on demand and avoid blindly following the trend
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If consumers do have a demand for raw eggs, they should pay attention to the following points:

The first is to buy big brands with guaranteed quality and stricter standards; the second is to store them properly and consume them within the validity period to avoid artificial secondary pollution; the third is to distinguish between suitable groups, elderly people with poor physical fitness and weak spleen and stomach functions With children, it is recommended to eat cooked egg products as much as possible
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(Editor Li Chuang)