People's Daily: Food additive " Add " Do not " add " ?

People's Daily: Food additive " Add " Do not " add " ?
"Some food adds the reputation of ruining food additive of the behavior illegally, it is safe that it accords with food additive of the national requirement that it is used that in fact proper, ordinary people do not need ' talk about adding the color to change '. " Until whom National Administrative Institute hold strengthen the safety of food, supervise at the thematic seminar recently, the expert says, without food additive, there is no modernized food processing industries, there is no abundant, colorful food kind. So long as use according to the national standard, food additive is safe. According to " sanitary standard that food additive uses ", additive that our country allows to use is divided into 23 kinds, 334 kinds of food additive among them, multi-type of spices 1850 for food. Look from foreign countries, American food additive use quantity to be even large than our country, the scope of application is wider than our country too. Food additive improves food quality, lengthens the shelf life of food and benefits the efficiency of food processing, under a lot of situations, there is not food additive that will let the food be more unsafe. Such as preservative, if cancel, how long can instant noodles can not be kept to go bad, the jelly is unable to eat in two days, the much food on supermarket shelves can't be well kept. Since food additive had benefits, why did many consumers " bear a grudge " ? The expert of National Administrative Institute thinks, with the appearance of a series of food security incident, consumers can not understand what is food additive, what is " garniture of illegality " ,Have produced psychologically " Panic " . For example, it is red, peacock blue to gather cyanogen amine, clenobuterol hydrochloride, the Sudan three times All these are not food additive. They appeared in the food, were added in illegally by illegal producers. Ensure the food security, must strengthen market surpervision. The food mainly has two big problems to add illegally at present: First, regard non-food raw material as food additive, such as it is lemon yellow and gathering cyanogen amine, the Sudan to add red, etc three times; Second, out-of-range or ultra limit uses preservative, edulcorant, colorant agent, bleaching agent,etc.. Not long ago, General Office of the State Council released the notice, required the strict verification of related departments, made the new assortment national standard of food additive, make and announce and reply and mix food additive common safety standard and food additive that annotates the standard. The insider thinks, should register to the producer, seller, user of food additive for reference, set up the strict system of tracing to the source of food. While strengthening the safety of food and supervising, will strengthen enterprise's community responsibility, improve and operate consciousness within the limits of the law. Devote more efforts to punishing to the enterprises in violation of rules and regulations, until evicting from the market.

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