Food additives are not a scourge?

Reuters Beijing May 12 issue: food additives is not a scourge?

often Zhipeng, section MEI

5 月 8 Food Safety Commission Office of the State Council issued "Food safety education framework." Outline the requirements in 2015 will be the basics of food safety, public awareness increased to 80%, and the primary and secondary students the basics of food safety awareness to 85% or more.

with previously published by the Office of the State Council's Food Safety Commission has found 151 kinds of food and feed the whole list of illegal substances added, the State Council issued the "add on to crack down on illegal acts strengthen food food additive regulation notice ", a time, due to lack of relevant knowledge and information, how to deal with food additives become major issues in social life.

What is food additives?

Food is food to safety first. However, the spate of food additives, or "seemingly" and food additives on food safety incidents, so that consumers feel that food additives has become an "influence" an important factor in food safety. Melamine, clenbuterol, Sudan ... ...

food additives allow consumers ease?

According to FAO and WHO Joint Codex Alimentarius Commission on the definition of food additives, food additives are conscious small amount added to food to improve food appearance, taste and nature of organizational structure or storage of non- nutrients.

Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing Technology and Business University, said Vice-President Sun Baoguo, conscious use of food additives in China's history for thousands of years. However, the concept of food additives imported from abroad, so from the outset with the international standards.

information to show the country there are 23 categories of food additives, more than 2,000 species, including spices, flavors and over 1800 kinds of classes. The most common food additives are preservatives, coloring agents, bleaching agents, leavening agents, flavor enhancers, nutrient supplement, etc.

deputy secretary general of the Chinese health care associations, health care consulting services committee chairman Zhang said, the food additives not only improve the appearance and taste of food, maintain and improve the nutritional value of food, and prevent deterioration of food, increasing food variety and convenience, but also help food processing to meet the needs of mechanization and automation of production and so good.

Sun Baoguo said, no additives no modern food. Almost all food additives -

if you caking salt without additives, without additives will be long-haired soy sauce, cooking oil without antioxidants will have a rancid taste, flour The additives can be moisture, mildew, corrosion ... ...

in the reform and opening up, authorities have convened experts to discuss how to enrich food variety, "can not but popsicles are all white? "" Can you produce a variety of flavors? "Now if you ask this question who would find it very funny. Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Center for Disease Control Nutrition and food safety researcher Chen Jun-shi further explained that "food additives is the soul of the modern food industry", it meets the consumer's growing material needs.