The new standard appearance of food additive aims at strengthening the safety of food to supervise

The new standard appearance of food additive aims at strengthening the safety of food to supervise
The new standard appearance of food additive aims at strengthening the safety of food to supervise
(11:02 on April 16, 2008) The new standard appearance of food additive aims at strengthening the safety of food to supervise " the Sudan is red " , " clenobuterol hydrochloride " Incident, let ordinary people and supervision department gradually to pay increasingly much concern food additive that everybody fade from memory already. A few days ago, Ministry of Public Health released" food additive used the sanitary standard " (GB2760- 2007) formally ,The standard revised newly will be implemented since June 1 this year. The new standard issued this time divides food additive into 22 kinds, amounts to 1812 kinds, has set up and are suitable for the categorised system of food that food additive uses, this system makes all food that exists on the market at present can be found to additive that should be used and instructions for use conveniently. The statistical data reveals, in the whole food industry, the food accounts for 60%, food additive accounts for 3%. Though food additive is not big in portion in the food industry, it is an indispensable part. "In the modern food industry, every food overwhelming majority processed through industry uses additive. " Chinese food additive and batching association's general secretary Qi QingZhong say, some consumers think the food with additive is unsafe, unhealthy, this is a kind of wrong view. It is not some enterprises according to the standard procedure of the countries concerned strictly to trace it to its cause, it is used that out-of-range and ultra quantity use, has brought the negative effect to whole trade. Food additive is generally applied to food production, its security uses the security concerning the food directly rationally. However, abuse or ultra quantity and use the phenomenon of food additive to take place occasionally. The food security is also one of the topics beneath most mention in the past two years. Ministry of Public Health is amalgamating national food medicines and supervising the office, after taking over the food and supervising the affair of running affairs, put out the intersection of food additive and new standard immediately, and ultra quantity use food security issue of additive in control, abuse fundamentally. The statistics show, the income from sales of food additive trade is more than 50 billion yuan in 2007, it exports goods and earns foreign currency about 2,700 million dollars, increases and exceeds 15% compared with the same period of last year. Though export the absolute quantity not big, come out at the top in food additive trade in the whole world. Qi QingZhong says, in this field, China has very strong competitive advantage, the weaker than developed country in such aspects as technology, talent, but the advantage is obvious in the cost, on supplying the chain system. The insider introduces, it is becoming stricter as the country supervised to the food security, safe and nonpoisonous or basically nonpoisonous natural food additive becomes the focal point researched and developed. (Chen LiJuan)


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