Children's puffed food is toxic, the Ministry of health will ban aluminum additives.
the Ministry of Health recently issued the standard for the use of food additives for food safety standards for food safety (solicit draft), revising the provisions of aluminum containing food additives to solve the problem of excess aluminum intake in our country. Agent.
at present, aluminum containing additives such as alum are widely used in fried foods and expanded foods.
reporters visited many supermarkets in Ji'nan, and puffed foods occupy more than half of children's food. Experts point out that excessive aluminum in children will affect their growth and development. However, limiting aluminum additives will not have a big impact on the food industry.
children's intake of aluminum comes from expanded food
the Ministry of health in March 15th has asked for public opinion on the revised draft standard for the use of food safety standards for food safety. The standard is intended to remove all regulations on the use of aluminum containing food additives in puffed foods.
if the standard is implemented, there will be no trace of aluminum additives in children's puffed foods.
not long ago, the risk assessment of dietary aluminum exposure in China showed that the aluminum intake of 7-14 year old children was relatively high, and with the age decreasing, aluminum intake was increasing, and expanded food became one of the main sources of aluminum intake for children.
yesterday afternoon, the reporters found in many supermarkets, such as Tesco supermarket, that most of the puffed food in children's food accounted for a whole shelf, including shrimp, cheese, pea and so on.
a mother is buying snacks for her son in primary school. She said, "just to pick up the children after school, they bought several packages of puffed food and cake. Anyway, not only did my son eat, but when we watched TV, we ate and played.
besides the expanded food, the reporter found that aluminum additives in candy and jelly can also be seen everywhere.
long-term aluminum intake can damage the brain
it is understood that in 2011, the annual aluminum tolerance intake (PTWI) was revised to 2 mg per kilogram at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the WHO Joint Expert Committee on food additives. With reference to this result, the evaluation center of China's assessment center in 2011 on the risk assessment of aluminum in food shows that the average dietary aluminum intake in our country is lower than that, but the intake of aluminum in the low age group and the high food consumption population has been overtaken.
Liu Qingnian, Secretary General of the Ji'nan Food Industry Association, said that flour and flour products are the main sources of dietary aluminum intake in China because of the use of aluminum swelling agents. In addition, aluminum cookers, aluminum packaging, etc. will also enter the human body through food, and then it is expanded food. Northern people are accustomed to eating pasta, so more than half of the residents have an excessive intake of aluminum.
as a heavy metal, the excessive aluminum in human body will have a greater impact on people. Liu Yang, director of the occupational disease department of Ji'nan occupational disease hospital, said that most of the body's intake of aluminum will accumulate in the body, only about 10% can be discharged into the body. Aluminum can interfere with the absorption of calcium, zinc, iron, magnesium and other elements in the human body. Long-term intake will damage the brain, increase the burden on the kidneys, and cause damage to the kidneys. And the accumulation of aluminum in the body damage the nervous system, which can reduce memory, reduce immunity and nerve conduction, affect the brain of the elderly and cause Alzheimer's disease. In addition, when children are growing and developing, the excessive aluminum will affect the development of children.
the influence of aluminum limit on the food industry is not
to reduce the dietary aluminum intake of our residents. The new revised food additive standard is intended to amend the use range and dosage of 9 kinds of aluminum containing food additives such as potassium sulphate, including potassium sulphate and ammonium sulfate as puffing agents for the use of fermented flour products 3 kinds of food additives, such as acid aluminum phosphate, sodium aluminosilicate and octyl succinic acid, are revoked, and all aluminum containing food additives, including synthetic coloring agent aluminum lake in expanded food, are revoked.
Liu Qingnian introduced that the main purpose of the adjustment is to reduce the dietary aluminum intake of our residents. The aluminum contained in puffed food is mainly made of aluminum containing leavening agent, followed by aluminum containers used in the production process.
aluminum potassium sulfate (Jia Mingfan) and ammonium sulfate (An Mingfan), which are to be revoked in the expanded food, are mainly used as swelling agents or stabilizers. This time cancellations of some aluminum containing additives are also due to the progress of the production process. By the rational collocation of the formula, there will be a corresponding substitute, for example, without aluminium additives, such as aluminum free. Puffing agent.
, therefore, Liu Qingnian said, limiting the use of aluminum additives will not have a big impact on the food industry.