reporter Wang Hongni
recently, there are media reports on the production of flour brighteners in Rugao Yuzhong Food Additive Co., Ltd., Jiangsu When the lime powder was added, many people in the province had doubts about the safety of flour. After the incident, the Shandong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau carried out special action to investigate and deal with the illegal behavior of flour whitening agent, and found the "problem whitening agent" in a flour enterprise 140 kg, but the batch of whitening agent was not put into use, and the sampling inspection of the flour produced by the enterprise was also qualified.
Event replay:
flour whitening agent adding lime powder
recently, media reports, Jiangsu Rugao Yuzhong Food Additive Co., Ltd. added lime powder when producing flour brighteners. These flour whitening agents are sold to large and medium sized flour enterprises in Jiangsu, Shandong and Anhui via middlemen. Industry.
the chemical name of the flour whitening agent in China is "benzoyl peroxide". It is a strong oxidizing agent. It can make flour whitening and antiseptic, but it will destroy vitamin A and E and other nutrients in flour, and long-term food will make damage to the liver. Adding lime powder will do harm to the health of the consumers.
all parts of the world are now cleaning up the batch of "flour brighteners".
reporter survey:
whether there is a whitening agent packaging bag on
13 days afternoon, the reporter came to a large shopping supermarket in the calendar mountain road, in the sale of flour area, stacked with seven or eight brands of bagged flour. It was noted that the flour was almost all produced in Shandong province and could be roughly divided into two kinds: one of the flour packing bags clearly marked "no whitening agent", the price was slightly higher; the other flour was not marked on the package, but "wheat flour and food additives" were written on the backside of the bag. Dilute benzoyl peroxide, diluted benzoyl peroxide, flour whitening agent.
"this flour is sold well!" Supermarket staff recommended to reporters a price of 17.5 yuan, 5 kilograms of a bag of flour. Reporters saw that the flour packaging bag says "no whitening agent", compared with other equal weight flour, the price is moderate. The staff said that if the flour containing whitening agents is not at ease, you can choose these varieties that do not contain whitening agents. A big sister who came to buy flour told reporters: "flour is too white, it is added whitening agent, eat at home to buy" black noodles "on the line!
Quality Supervision Department:
the flour on the market is all qualified
the flour sold in the supermarket looks more formal, so is the flour on the market safe? The reporter interviewed the relevant personalities of Shandong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau.
it is understood that after the information of "problem whitening agent" is disclosed, the Shandong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau attaches great importance to this, issued a notice in April 8th, and deployed the province to focus on the special action to investigate and deal with the illegal behavior of flour whitening agent in Shandong Province, to check the flour whitening agent produced by Yuzhong Food Additive Co., Ltd., Rugao City, Jiangsu. .
at the same time, Shandong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau has also deployed the supervision and inspection of the enterprises that have obtained benzoyl peroxide diluted by food additives. At present, this work is being carried out, and no lime powder has been found in the enterprises that produce benzoyl peroxide diluted by food additives in our province.
as at 4 p.m. in April 12th, the quality supervision system of Shandong province made a total of 3491 law enforcement personnel, checked 968 flour production and processing units, and found only 140 kg of flour whitening agent produced by Jiangsu Rugao Yuzhong Food Additive Co., Ltd. in one enterprise. After investigation, the batch of whitening agent was not put into use, and the flour produced by the company has been sampled and tested, and the result is qualified.
[color=#FF0000] to buy flour "4 words"
"see": high quality flour color slightly yellow, no black spots, adding whitening agent overdose of flour color is pure white or gray.
"smell": normal flour smells of wheat flavor, and inferior flour not only has no smell of wheat, but also smells or moulds.
taste: take the right amount of flour into the mouth for 1 minutes, and bite several times with your teeth: good mouthfeel and good sticky teeth.
"touch": grab a handful of flour with your hand, make a pinch, and loose the powder behind the pine hand - this is a good flour for water. [/color]
it is understood that according to the results of the inspection in recent years, the quality of the large and medium-sized flour production enterprises in our province is stable. The main quality problem is that the water of individual small enterprises is exceeding the standard and the marking annotation is not standard, and the phenomenon of the whitening agent exceeding the standard has been greatly reduced. The Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau reminds consumers that when buying flour, they can eat at regular shopping malls and buy products from large and medium-sized enterprises in our province.