What does food additive add to our life

Jiang Hong, a reporter of our newspaper, is playing a role of "killer" in people's life, for the seemingly unfamiliar substances such as white block, Sudan red, albumen melamine, boric acid and borax, bulking agent, clenbuterol, malachite green, Industrial formaldehyde, etc The illegal use of bleaching agent sulfur fumigation for steamed bread, excessive use of bulking agent for fried dough sticks and melamine in milk powder are all harmful to people's health and safety Recently, nine ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of health, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of public security, the Ministry of supervision, the Ministry of agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration for Industry and commerce, the General Administration of quality supervision and inspection, and the food and drug administration, jointly launched a special campaign to combat the illegal addition of non edible substances and the abuse of food additives The Ministry of health has issued the first batch of snow in the list of non edible substances that may be added illegally and food additives that are easy to be misused in food, including white block, Sudan red, golden yellow block, melamine protein concentrate, boric acid and borax, sodium thiocyanate, rose red B, art green, alkaline light yellow, acid orange, Industrial formaldehyde, industrial fire alkali, carbon monoxide, sodium sulfide and industry Sulfur, industrial dye and poppy shell are all prohibited to be added or abused Additives are everywhere In fact, the use of food additives has a very long history in China For example, brine for tofu and nitrate for cooking meat are still used today Relevant information shows that there are about 10000 kinds of additives in the world According to their sources, they can be divided into two categories: natural and chemical synthesis According to their uses, they can be divided into flavors, spices, pigments, antioxidants, fungicides, flavoring agents, sweeteners, bleaching agents, loosening agents and nutritional fortifier There are 20 categories and 2000 varieties of food additives allowed to be used in China, and many new varieties are approved to be used every year An authoritative person of the international food additive alliance once said: the use of food additives is an important sign that human beings are different from animals Nowadays, food additives are everywhere: coagulant is used to make tofu, alum is used to fry oil sticks, baking soda is used to make noodles, and additives are also indispensable to the production of dairy products, nutrition products, leisure food, grain and oil, meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables, beverages, cold food, spices, brewing, sweets and other foods Qian He, a professor at the food College of Jiangnan University, said that food additives are the crystallization of human wisdom and the symbol of civilization Without food additives, there would be no modern food industry The key is in the use Experts pointed out that in fact, even the available food additives are harmful if they exceed the specified use range and excessive intake Although people are worried about the safety of food additives, it is unrealistic to remove food additives and achieve "zero risk" Any additive, even natural ingredients, can be dangerous if ingested improperly The problem is not the food additives themselves, but how to formulate and effectively implement the use standards of additives As long as enterprises add food additives according to national standards, which are beneficial and harmless to food, consumers don't need to worry about anything and don't need to "talk about agent color change" Mao Qun'an, spokesman of the Ministry of health, said that the normal use of food additives is not harmful to public health and safety The shadow of additives behind every major food safety incident is caused by the illegal use or excessive use of production enterprises It is of great benefit for the public to treat food additives scientifically and master relevant knowledge to avoid the infringement of toxic and harmful food additives as far as possible According to the analysis of the insiders, there are five main problems in the use of food additives One is the use of varieties not allowed by the state, such as adding synthetic carcinogenic chemical dyes such as Sudan red and acid orange in some foods; adding formaldehyde and sodium sulfite in flour, rice flour and vermicelli to bleach Second, it does not conform to the scope and quantity of use prescribed by the state, such as coloring rice and adding spices, yellow chicken, green tea, red pigment for wolfberry, preservative for meat products, etc The third is to use food additives to cover up the quality of food, such as adding preservatives in the fresh pickles, adding spices and pigments in the deteriorated meat products with peculiar smell Fourth, the state requires the use of food grade food additives, but some food production units use industrial grade products to reduce costs For example, the cost of adding sodium bicarbonate for industrial use in flour products has been doubled, but the content of lead and arsenic in the products has exceeded the standard seriously Fifth, the logo is not indicated, misleading consumers Food manufacturers clearly use food additives in their products, but mark "no additives", "no preservatives" on the product logo, misleading consumers Supervision needs to establish an effective linkage system In real life, in order to standardize the market order, we need the cooperation of market forces and consumers' spontaneous enthusiasm for safeguarding rights In a normal system environment, powerful industry associations and consumer rights protection actions can ensure the effective management of the industry and the "high pressure" of illegal enterprises, play an effective role in self-discipline and purification of the market ecology, so as to make government management more effective with less effort Relevant people pointed out that administrative supervision must rely on scientific market detection system In fact, the lack of daily systematic monitoring and evaluation data of food safety in China is a major hidden danger in the food regulatory system for a long time In our country, it is often found that there is no effective early warning and prevention mechanism Food borne (biological and chemical) hazards are the main problems of food safety in China Some experts pointed out that the occurrence of "Sanlu incident" started from food borne hazards In terms of chemical pollution, the United States has established data on pesticide residues in animal food in the past 20 years, while China has only carried out some sporadic work on some important pollutants, such as agricultural and veterinary drugs, heavy metals, mycotoxins, etc., lacking systematic monitoring data The first batch of list of illegal food additives was printed and specially cracked down It is a positive step forward to play a linkage role in the real food circulation supervision system with the implementation of the previous food delisting system, the compulsory printing of "QS" signs, and the cancellation of the food industry exemption system But as far as a basic regulatory theory is concerned, any effective regulatory system does not depend on the excellent performance of one link, but on the common role of all links in the same system, so as to play a complete and effective regulatory function and build a strong regulatory system Therefore, only when the industrial associations, consumer rights protection organizations, public opinion supervision and public reporting channels that stimulate the power and wisdom of private autonomy are unblocked, and the market supervision and regulation that is more realistic and rational and in line with the market rules are refined, and even the administrative and judicial systems such as the higher-level consumer protection system and the national compensation system are improved, can the fundamental food safety solutions be relied on.