Science has proved that flour whitening agent is a safe food additive

flour whitening agent
(
: dilution of benzoyl peroxide
)
can bleach and anti-corrosion of flour, can shorten the post-ripe cycle of flour. Flour whitening agent is China's "food additives use standards" allowed to use flour treatment agents, in recent years, after many arguments, whether foreign or China's authoritative departments have confirmed that flour whitening agent in flour is safe to use, and has no impact on the nutrition of flour. In fact, flour whitening agents are flour treatment agents allowed in many countries, and no country has so far banned them, nor have there been any scientific reports of the use of flour whitening agents in flour as harmful to human health.One of the main reasons for calling for the ban on flour whitening agents is that the effective component of flour whitening agents is benzoyl peroxide, on the inference that long-term consumption of benzoyl peroxide may cause chronic benzoyl poisoning, benzene poisoning is a life-threatening thing, how can not cause public panic
?
fact, but anyone who knows about chemistry knows that benzene in benzoyl peroxide is the same as chlorine in sodium chloride, it cannot be said that salt contains chlorine, and eating salt can cause chlorine poisoning
;
the human body contains amphetamine acid, it can not be said that amphetamine acid will cause human benzene poisoning. Although this is a simple chemical common sense, after all, the public does not understand that whatever the purpose of calling for a ban on flour whitening agents is beyond reproach, it would be wrong to use public knowledge of expertise to deceive the public in order to achieve a ban on flour whitening agents.reason for calling for a ban on flour whitening agents is that the EU bans them, and if that is the case, it is a good illustration that the basis for the BAN in the EU should be published. In fact, the EU currently approved only a few hundred varieties of food additives, China has allowed more than
2000
kinds, China allowed the use of many food additives are not included in the Eu union, including benzoyl peroxide, the European Union has never banned flour whitening agent any reports. The prohibition of flour whitening agents in Australia and New Zealand is even more nonsense, as long as you know the expertise of food additives can be found online in Australia and New Zealand to use flour whitening agent regulations, Australia and New Zealand set the use limit of
40mg/kg flour whitening agent,
mainly used for flour after ripe.addition of flour whitening agents to flour to destroy the nutritional content of flour is also one of the main reasons for the ban. In fact, whether the flour whitening agent destroys the nutritional content of flour is a very good verification of the general test, just add flour whitening agent flour and not added flour to do a comparative test can be very good to explain the problem, if there is data is not a better explanation of the problem
?
so far there is no data on whether flour whitening agents destroy the nutritional make-up of flour, as flour whitening agents do not destroy flour nutrition at all.Put forward the
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consumers advocate nature, people have abandoned the use of whiteness to choose flour and flour products, many large flour companies do not use flour whitening agent
"
, on the surface is very reasonable, in fact, contradictory
!
"Food Additives Use Standard" only stipulates that flour whitening agent is flour additives, flour enterprises can be free to choose. Since consumers no longer choose pasta products in white, flour enterprises can seize this opportunity to produce flour without flour whitening agent, or adopt the method of labeling for consumers to choose their own, which is in line with the laws of the market economy. Why should we spare no effort to disable, is it really from the consumer's point of view
?the approval and use of each food additive is based on a set of scientific and rigorous toxic rational evaluation. The main basis is including chronic toxicology tests, acute toxicology tests
(LD50)
,
ADI
values, as well as
JECFA
and evaluation of relevant international organizations and other indicators of health significance. China to ban flour whitening agent, the main basis should be food additives of hygiene indicators, can not take some subjective public opinion and inse conceived views as the basis for the ban, that is not correct. And the absence of scientific facts as a reason to ban, the commercial interests of the dispute into the national standard of the fight itself is not responsible for public food safety.CAC
Codex Standard for Food Additives is recognized as the authoritative standard for food additives in the world, and the inclusion of flour whitening agent in the Codex Codex Standard for Food Additives has fully demonstrated that the use of flour whitening agent in flour is safe. In addition, the United States, Canada and other countries have been in accordance with the actual situation of their own countries, developed the maximum amount of flour whitening agent in flour, the United States provides that flour whitening agent can be added according to actual needs, there is no limit to
;
Canada stipulates that the amount of flour whitening agent added to the flour is
150 mg/kg;
and our country stipulates that the amount of flour whitening agent added to the flour is
60 mg/kg
.it is important to note that in addition to benzoyl peroxide can bleach flour, there are many illegal toxic and harmful substances can also bleach flour, even better results, and low price, the use of very simple methods. Benzoyl peroxide has been proven to be a safe and controllable food additive, if the flour whitening agent is banned, and many consumers still pursue the whiteness of noodle products, then how to solve this problem
?If flour mills do not use benzoyl oxide, and Shantou, noodle shops and restaurants want to process white and bright bread, noodles and other noodle products, there are a variety of simple ways to do.method: add

chlorate
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industrial bleach to flour. Only need to add a little industrial bleach to the surface, you can process white and bright bread, noodles and other noodles.
"
hanging white block
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times chlorate
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and other industrial bleach are ordinary chemical products, the general chemical shop can be bought, the price is also very cheap, two or three yuan a kilogram, Shantou, noodle shop and restaurants to buy a few kilograms can be used for a month.two methods:
"
"sulfur fumigation method
"
. The method of using sulfur fumigation steamed bread is simpler, steaming steamed bread only need to put a small bowl at the bottom of the steamer, put a little sulfur inside, sulfur will evaporate in the heat, and so the steaming of the steamed bread will smoke the steam of the steam is very white.method three:

physical whitening
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, that is, when adding a little phosphor to the surface can also be processed white and bright bread, noodles and other noodles. Fluorescent powder is also a common chemical products, the general chemical stores can also be bought.The above several bleached bread, noodles and other noodle products are very simple, just need to go to the chemical store to buy some of the above chemical products, you can use not to add benzoyl peroxide yellow flour processing white and bright bread and noodles, which is very easy to verify the fact., why in shantou, noodles and other noodle products did not find that some people use the above toxic and harmful chemicals. The reason is very simple, because our flour enterprises have used benzoyl peroxide, flour whiteness has reached the consumer requirements, Shantou Square, noodle shops and restaurants and any illegal bleach is to paint snakes to add
!
If benzoyl peroxide is banned, will there be some bread shops, noodle shops and restaurants for personal gain, using the above methods to process white and bright bread, noodles and other noodle products. How many shantou shops, noodle shops and restaurants are there
?
to use what method of supervision, to prevent them from using toxic and harmful substances bleached bread, noodles noodles
?Food safety is indeed a major event, as long as there is a scientific basis to prove the use of benzoyl peroxide
(
including China's individual flour mills over-standard use
)
harmful to human health, or scientific data to prove that benzoyl peroxide destroys the nutritional content of flour, affecting human health, then any person with a conscience, will not object to the banned
!
But if calls for a ban on benzoyl peroxide are only for commercial gain, using the public's lack of knowledge of additives, artificially inciting some people and manipulating the news media, fooling the public and provoking public outrage and banning benzoyl peroxide. As a result, many industrial bleachs harmful to humans may be used illegally.- Editor's Note: This article was published on September 17, 2010