Notification of sweet element content in plant extracts exported to Japan

Recently, China's plant extract products exported to Japan have been notified by the Japanese customs for containing cyclamate In order to minimize the impact of this event on the export trade of plant extracts, the inspection and Quarantine Department reminded the relevant export enterprises in the jurisdiction to understand the characteristics of their products, and to cross the export threshold on the premise of ensuring that the products do not contain prohibited additives Sodium cyclamate, whose chemical name is sodium cyclamate, is a common additive in food production Some experiments have shown that when consumers eat more than the safe intake of sodium cyclamate, their throat will have stimulation reaction, and even throat edema or swelling will occur, which will cause diseases and damage human health Therefore, more than 40 countries in the world, including the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries, prohibit the use of sodium cyclamate as a food sweetener More than 80 countries, including China, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, allow the addition of sodium cyclamate in food Plant extract is a kind of plant-based material to obtain and concentrate one or more effective ingredients in plants, which is used in medicine, health food, tobacco, cosmetics and other raw materials or auxiliary materials Due to the inconsistent standards of plant extracts at home and abroad, the export of the above-mentioned products has been frequently notified, recalled, returned and so on How to realize the rapid access of plant extracts in the international market has become a major problem to be solved Therefore, the inspection and quarantine department suggests that the export enterprises of plant extracts should take active measures: on the one hand, they need to establish a scientific production system that conforms to the product extraction specifications, standards and quality, strictly control the production process of products, and avoid the pollution of product additives and heavy metals in the production process; on the other hand, they need to improve the detection technology of plant extracts to achieve In the end, we should grasp the information in time and keep highly sensitive to the relevant trends Once there is new progress in foreign laws and regulations on plant extracts, we should strengthen the research and find countermeasures as soon as possible.