Rice should also reject additives

Recently, food additives frequently encounter trust crisis, but at this time, the new version of food additive use standard, which will be officially implemented on June 20, proposes that rice is allowed to add three additives: sodium diacetate (preservative), deacetylated chitin (coating agent) and sodium starch phosphate (thickener) After the publication of the standard, it immediately attracted close attention of the people On May 21, experts from China CDC clearly pointed out that sodium starch phosphate is not allowed to be used in rice; sodium diacetate is a common preservative, which is relatively safe and can be used in raw grains, rice, etc Deacetylated chitin is used as coating agent to make rice safe It is not clear whether the two additives are necessary The reporter found that in the health standard for food additives issued in 2007, sodium diacetate and deacetylated chitin were allowed to be used in rice, and their limited values were the same as the new standard Wang Zhutian, deputy director of nutrition and Food Safety Institute of China CDC and Deputy Secretary General of the first national food safety standards review committee, pointed out that under the current process conditions, it is not necessary to use thickeners for rice But rice products, such as rice flour, can be used conditionally But Zhu Zhiwei, a researcher at the China Rice Research Institute, told the life times that there was no need to use the additives in rice production Although these additives are used within the standard range, they will not cause harm to the body However, the moisture content of rice is less than 14.5% Most of the production uses mechanical extrusion and polishing process If there is no problem when the rice is kept for 3 months, the use of additives will increase the production cost instead If, for some objective reasons, it is necessary to prevent mildew and insects, put some pepper or garlic instead of adding preservatives At the same time, the current rice polishing technology can make rice fresh very good, there is no need to use coating agent In addition, to allow the use of additives is to allow the use of additional facilities in rice production process, which will give bad molecules an opportunity to expand the scope of addition and damage the interests of the people What worries Professor Tan Xuelin, director of the Rice Research Institute of Yunnan Agricultural University, is that some people will take advantage of the new standard to use the additive to "renovate" old rice, or rice used as feed, to make inferior rice better Zhu Zhiwei pointed out that according to national regulations, all ingredients added to food need to be indicated on the outer package But on May 23, reporters checked the packaging of more than 10 kinds of bagged rice and three kinds of bulk rice in Wal Mart, Carrefour, Lianhua and other supermarkets in Shanghai Most of the contents only indicated the origin, without mentioning additives "It's hard for professionals to identify with naked eyes what substances are added to rice, which is more difficult for ordinary people to judge Therefore, in order to ensure people's consumption interests and health, the relevant departments should strengthen the supervision and inspection of rice production " Zhu Zhiwei said.