Safety of preservatives
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Last Update: 2018-04-11
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: when it comes to preservatives, many people think they are harmful to the body What are the safety of preservatives? Let's have a detailed understanding of Baibai safety net Preservatives are not very well understood in everyone's mind Many people know that this chemical substance is used to prevent food corrosion But the safety of preservatives? Through the safety net of Baibai, you can have a detailed understanding Here are a lot of food additives 1 First of all, the use of food preservatives to ensure the safety of food On the contrary, the main function of preservatives is to inhibit the propagation of harmful bacteria, prevent them from producing toxins in food, or cause diseases to the consumers From this point of view, the work of food preservatives is more than excessive 2 Second, non-toxic and harmless to human body is the basic requirement for the use of food preservatives All countries in the world will carry out necessary and strict toxicological safety evaluation before the approval of the use of food preservatives, such as acute toxicity test, accumulation and mutagenicity test, sub chronic toxicity (including reproduction, teratogenesis) test, metabolism test, chronic toxicity test, etc It can only be approved for use if it is proved that it is harmless to human body within the added limit The principle of using food additives is clearly stipulated in our country: it should not produce any health hazards to human body 3 Thirdly, the regulation of food additives, especially preservatives, is very strict Before a food additive is widely used by a food enterprise, it must be declared to the relevant departments, and the dosage of the food additive must be determined through toxicological experiments 4 Fourth, our government has also increased the intensity of food supervision The State Council has set up a leading group for product quality and food safety under the State Council Local governments have also set up a food safety supervision group to inspect food additive production enterprises and food enterprises from time to time Some illegal cases of excessive use of food additives have been investigated Through the above understanding, we know the relevant knowledge, then what are the differences between preservatives and desiccants? Can they be detected by the food safety tester? All the answers are in Baibai safety net Editor in charge: he xianrob
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