Quality supervision department reminds: beware of jam with colorant endangering human health

Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of quality and Technical Supervision recently carried out supervision and spot check on jam products sold on the market It was found that more than 30% of the products were unqualified, and some production enterprises were forbidden to add colorants and sweeteners Long term consumption of such products would seriously harm human health The quality supervision department reminds consumers to recognize the brand when purchasing jam products Jam is a kind of auxiliary food which is made from one or more kinds of fruits by pretreatment, crushing or beating, sugar concentration and other processes The quality supervision department randomly inspected 19 batches of jam products produced by 18 enterprises, 13 of which were qualified, with a sampling qualification rate of 68.4% The results show that the quality of jam products sold in Jiangxi market is worrying According to the quality supervision department, the main problem of unqualified products is the illegal addition of colorants In the 6 batches of unqualified products in this spot check, all of them are prohibited to add color agent lemon yellow, and 3 batches of products are prohibited to add color agent carmine The main purpose of adding colorant to the product is to make the product colorful and to facilitate the product sales; the second is to add sweetener illegally Among the 6 batches of unqualified products in this spot check, 3 batches of products are prohibited to add sweetener saccharin sodium This is mainly because some enterprises use saccharin sodium instead of sugar production to save cost Long term consumption of jam products with excessive colorants and sweeteners will harm the health of consumers The quality supervision department reported that each box of 280g jam with the trademark of "Wendi" produced by Tianjin Wendi Food Co., Ltd and each bottle of 250g tomato sauce with the trademark of "zhenqiwei" produced by Guangzhou Zhenwei Food Co., Ltd were all unqualified.