Symposium on plant and food safety held in Academy of Agricultural Sciences

The "special report meeting on plant and food safety" sponsored by Beijing Botanical Society and organized by Beijing vegetable society was held in the lecture hall of Vegetable Research Center of Beijing Academy of agricultural and Forestry Sciences on the morning of November 28, 2011 More than 90 experts, scholars and middle school biology teachers from Haidian, Fengtai, Dongcheng, Chaoyang, Daxing, Fangshan and Ruicheng, Shanxi, who are engaged in middle school education, attended the meeting Professor Rao Guangyuan, vice president of Beijing Botanical Society delivered a speech, and Liu Wei, Secretary General of Beijing vegetable society presided over the academic conference He Hongju, researcher of the vegetable research center of Beijing Academy of agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Lei Mei, associate researcher of the Institute of geographical resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhang Dechun, researcher of the vegetable and Flower Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, attended the conference to give academic reports on "heavy metal form and food safety", "from farmland to dining table -- Analysis of the impact of heavy metal pollution on the quality and safety of agricultural products", "how far is food additive from you" After the meeting, the teachers visited the greenhouse of agricultural science and technology facilities The theme of this academic activity is closely related to the people's livelihood The experts at the meeting analyzed the impact of heavy metal pollution on the quality and safety of agricultural products from the aspects of the form, source and mechanism of heavy metal pollution concerned by the public At the same time, the experts also described how consumers know the additives and use them safely The panic about additives mainly came from Sudan and malachite green And trichlorocyandiamide As industrial raw materials, these chemicals themselves are not allowed to be used in food, and do not belong to the category of food additives So far, none of the food safety incidents in China is caused by food additives As a national standard "Hygienic standard for the use of food additives", the dosage and scope of most food additives are clearly defined It has passed strict animal toxicity test and toxicological evaluation of food additives, which has scientific basis In food production, as long as food additives are added according to national standards, they will not cause harm to human body, and consumers can safely eat them The teachers at the meeting believed that the academic conference was fruitful, new in knowledge and close to people's life.