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    Protein solid beverages pretending to be special medical milk powder, how harmful is it?

    • Last Update: 2021-06-28
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    In the past two days, the news of "Chenzhou Big Head Baby Fake Milk Powder" has been screened
    .
    After experiencing the "Fuyang Big Head Baby" and "Melamine Baby", anything related to the quality of milk powder will cause great concern
    .

    The following analyzes and explains this incident from various aspects
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    1.
    This behavior has actually appeared many times
    This incident attracted attention, mainly because of the two shocking keywords "big head doll" and "fake milk powder"
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    In fact, the core of the matter is "using protein solid beverages to pretend to be special medical milk powder
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    "
    There have been too many similar things
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    For example, in this report in June last year, even hospital medical staff participated in it
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    2.
    What is the difference between "solid beverage" and "special medical food"? Solid beverages are food powders with a specific composition.
    Add water to make a drink to drink
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    "Protein solid beverages" are solid beverages with relatively high protein content that can supplement protein
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    In short, "protein solid beverage" itself is a kind of legal and compliant conventional food
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    The "special medical foods" are foods formulated to meet the nutritional needs of specific groups of people, such as foods for diabetic and hypertensive patients
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    In the case of Chenzhou, it was an amino acid formula milk powder for allergic infants
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    Protein is an indispensable nutrient for the human body, and formula milk powder must have a "specific content" of high-quality protein, such as milk protein or soy protein
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    But some children are allergic to these proteins, so they need "special formula milk powder" to provide them with nutrition
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    The most common solution is to replace protein with amino acids to avoid allergies
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    Such formula milk powder also belongs to a kind of "special medical milk powder"
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    Special medical milk powder uses amino acids to solve allergies, but this is not enough
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    It also has to be "milk powder", that is, it contains all the nutrients the baby needs and "the content is right"
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    Such milk powder has very high requirements on formula and production, so it is strictly supervised and needs to obtain special production qualifications before it can be produced and sold
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    Therefore, the price of special medical milk powder is relatively high
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    The price of "protein solid beverages" that do not have so many requirements is much lower
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    Therefore, using "solid beverages" to pretend to be "special medical milk powder" will naturally be able to obtain huge profits
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    3.
    How solid beverages pretend to be special medical milk powder
    Food packaging needs to have clear product name, category, production standard and other information
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    If you don't label it truthfully, you will not be able to pass the review, and the forced listing will be discovered immediately
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    Therefore, almost no company dares to produce "special medical milk powder" without obtaining the qualifications-on the packaging, they will honestly label it as "solid beverage"
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    However, they often use patterns and slogans to hide
    Show that this is for babies, and can solve the baby's allergies and other problems
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    For the vast number of consumers who have not studied food labeling, these hints often have very good results
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    More importantly, marketers of maternal and infant products will cleverly suggest or even make clear that this is for babies
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    Because of person-to-person communication, even if it is false propaganda, it is difficult to collect evidence and it is difficult to be monitored
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    Manufacturers and salespersons are embarrassed, and many consumers are also deceived
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    4.
    What are the hazards of solid beverages to babies
    "Protein solid drink" is not "poisoned milk powder", and it does not contain "toxic and harmful ingredients
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    "
    Its problem is that it cannot provide all the nutrients that babies need
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    In other words, when babies use it as a source of nutrition, it will cause the lack of certain nutrients, leading to malnutrition and affecting development
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    In the case of Chenzhou, it may have caused the children's vitamin D deficiency, which affected bone development and even rickets
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    For another example, if the iron content in the milk powder is insufficient, it may cause sleepiness in the baby;
    If the iodine content is insufficient, it may cause nervation
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    5.
    How to choose milk powder for your child
    First of all, it should be emphasized: breast milk is the best food for babies.
    If breast milk is sufficient, then the child does not need to drink any milk powder
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    In infancy (that is, from 0 to 12 months), if the child cannot get breast milk or does not have enough breast milk, he should drink “infant formula”
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    Any other animal milk or "nutrients" cannot be used as the main food for children
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    After 6 months, babies can eat some complementary foods, but they should still be breast milk or formula milk
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    If you need milk powder but are allergic to milk protein, you can also try formula milk powder based on goat milk protein or soy protein
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    However, many babies who are allergic to milk proteins are also allergic to these proteins, so a considerable number of allergic babies cannot solve the problem in this way
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    Deeply hydrolyzed milk powder and amino acid formula milk powder can solve allergies well
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    When buying, be sure to see that the product category is "infant formula", not "solid beverages" or any other category
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    When the child reaches the first birthday, the importance of milk declines.
    It is only used as a part of a diversified diet and no formula milk is needed
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    With a reasonable diet, using "protein solid beverages" to replace milk will not cause major problems
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