Tapes are harmful to people? Experts say caution is good.
2 22 months (probation reporter Zhang Di) celery, leek, bean angle are tied to the blue plastic tape, neatly placed on the counter for people to select. The people who often go to the supermarket will certainly not be familiar with the scene, but are the adhesive tape on the vegetables harmful to the human body? Although some manufacturers say they can provide non-toxic and harmless quality inspection reports, the experts remind consumers that they need to pay attention to cleaning after they go home.
22 afternoon, the reporter came to a supermarket on Lishan Road, celery, green onions, leeks and cabbage. The vegetables were tied up in plastic tape, placed in the vegetable area, and some of the tape marked the name of the vegetable supplier and the phone number, but there was no sign for the food. "Can it be convenient to be bundled up, and can the tape be toxic?" Ms. Yang, who is shopping, says he doesn't notice whether the tape is for food, but sometimes it's hard to clean the gum on the vegetables. "I'll cut off the piece of gelatin." Ms. Yang said.
"these tapes are all tied up by suppliers." A supermarket employee who was tallying the goods said that the vegetables sold in the supermarket were all unpacked from the vegetable suppliers. When packaging, the supplier first uses the tape to bind the vegetables into bundles and then pack them into plastic bags. The supermarket just unpacked the bags and weighed every bales of vegetables.
the reporter consulted the Shouguang Liaoyuan vegetable limited company according to the telephone on the adhesive tape. "The tapes we use are all specially ordered, which do no harm to humans." The staff who answered the phone said that if consumers had doubts about the safety of the tape, they could get the quality inspection report from their supermarket by the supermarket.
"at present, there are many kinds of adhesive tape on the market, but it is difficult to exclude the adverse effects on human body." Professor Hao Aiyou, Professor of chemistry and chemical engineering of Shandong University, said that most of the main ingredients of adhesive tape are acrylate, some products also contain chemicals such as toluene, which are harmful to human body, and the long-term vegetable with direct contact with adhesive tape is harmful to the human body.
"foreign supermarkets also use tape packing food. The main ingredient of that tape is modified starch, which has no harm to the human body." Hao Aiyou said, in recent years, some manufacturers in China have produced such adhesive tape, but the use is not very extensive. Therefore, consumers should pay special attention to the cleaning of residual adhesives on vegetables.