Health Ministry experts say three food additives do not need to be tested

Yesterday, at the press conference, the Ministry of Health responded to media reports that "China's 2,000 kinds of food additives have almost no detectable method." The said non-detection method refers to the "residual testing" of these additives in foods. ".

According to reports, Chen Junshi, director of the China Food Additive Standardization Technical Committee, director of the Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that many of these additives do not have national quality standards. Correspondingly there is no detection method.

Chen Junshi said that at present foreign additives have testing methods, but we can not blindly reference. In addition to justification factors, cost and time issues must also be considered. He said that there are now six types of illegally added substances involving milk, milk, and dairy products. If six batches of banned substances are to be tested for each batch of dairy products, these costs will certainly be passed on to consumers.

According to reports, another health department expert said that some of the tests are unnecessary, one is that the additives themselves belong to the food ingredients, and the other is that plasticizers and other additives are self-limited, and only a small amount can achieve the effect; Additives are only used in the production process of foods. As production progresses, they are gradually volatilized or subtracted. There is no need for testing.