Sun Baoguo: Food additives need to be treated by society.

recent years, the community has misunderstood
food
additives as the culprit or scapegoat forfood safety. At present, the urgent problem to be solved is to strengthen popular science, the origin of Qingyuan, so that the masses understand food additives and what is illegal additives, food additives, the social co-management of the problem is the expectations of industry scholars and experts., a member of the
China Academy of Engineering and president of Beijing University of Industry and Commerce, said that the term "social co-governance of food additives" was based on the cognition of most scholars and experts and questionnaires. In recent years, the results of several questionnaires show that more than 80% of the respondents mistakenly believe that food safety problems are caused by food additives. If this problem is not solved, people with a misunderstanding of food additives and even fear to enjoy three meals a day, the enjoyment of delicious will be greatly reduced. In addition, the correct orientation of public opinion is very important for the development of food additive industry and food industry.food additives and their safetyFood additives are added to food synthetic or natural substances to improve food quality and color, aroma, taste, and the need for anti-corrosion, preservation and processing processes. Food spices, gum-based confectionery in the basic substances, food industry processing aids are also included. Food additives are neither food nor medicine, but ingredients in the food processing process and cannot be consumed directly. Therefore, the evaluation of food additive safety must not be a separate evaluation of food additives themselves, but to add this food additives to the food evaluation. The safety of food additives themselves can not be compared with the safety of food containing the food additives, food additives toxic does not mean that food is toxic, because we eat food, not food additives, for example, brine and tofu, brine toxic, brine tofu non-toxic, and brine tofu because it contains the necessary trace element magnesium, resulting in higher nutritional value.Why should the problem of food additives be treated by society Food additives have become a common concern of the whole society, everyone's cognitive bias is large, there are misunderstandings and gradually deepen, the Internet spread a lot of negative angles to promote food additives pictures. For food additives, some people wonder, some people are afraid, some people are demonizing them. A restaurant poster Chinese wrote: "No poison has me, this restaurant products do not contain MSG and any food additives", food additives as a drug to promote themselves, inflammatory and deceptive. When the public saw such propaganda, they were frightened and frightened by MSG and food additives. In fact, this restaurant does not use MSG for cooking chicken essence. There is only one component of MSG: sodium glutamate, which is a food additive, while there are many varieties of food additives in chicken essence than MSG, not only sodium glutamate, but also sodium creacoside and sodium bisine. Such publicity can have adverse social effects, but there is a lack of regulatory basis and systems.abuse of food additives occurs from time to time, and the "stained hoe" in Shanghai in 2011 is a typical case. The reason for the misuse of food additives is either ignorance or unscrupulous. The illegal and criminal acts of abusing food additives must be resolutely combated in accordance with the law. At the same time, to strengthen food practitioners on food additives related legal knowledge, regulations, standards and other knowledge of the training is also fundamentally to eliminate the abuse of food additives an important measure.food additives are a hot topic, for example, in a 2015 Article reprinted by the Global Times entitled "American Centennive Scientists Fight Food Additives." Anyone who sees the title will think of food additives as wolves and demons, but the article is about centenay scientists in the United States finally forcing the U.S. government to ban trans fats. As we all know, trans fats are not food additives, which is a typical "title party" approach. Disregarding the truth and the truth, the dirty water of food safety is thrown into food additives, which makes the public deeply misunderstand food additives. Melamine, Sudan red, hanging white blocks are not food additives, but illegal additives, the use of melamine in food, Sudan red, hanging white blocks, etc. are illegal crimes.food additives are beneficial and harmless, not a flood beast, there is no need to "fight." Only the whole society correctly understand and treat, food additives can better benefit mankind.."No addition" is the buzzword of the day, extending from the food world to other areas, largely as a gimmick that deceives many people. Some manufacturers even claim that their products are "no additions" without knowing what is "no addition", resulting in adverse social effects. For example, brine tofu was invented
chinese
, and has a history of more than two thousand years. Halogen is a food additive, the main component is magnesium chloride, is a food coagulant, but also gypsum tofu, inner ester tofu, the use of gypsum, glucoic acid-icing-inner esters are also coagulants. A very large-scale tofu factory, brine tofu, gypsum tofu, inner ester tofu are produced, but their tofu advertising map also has the word "no addition", they explained that the poster "no addition" refers to the addition of melamine, hanging white blocks and other additions, make people laugh. For example, a book about making cakes, the cover specifically marked "healthy soft cake without addition", and with a colorful multi-color cake picture, people know at a glance added colorants (colors), colorants are a category of food additives. As we all know, to make cakes and bread, such as must hair noodles, to use bubble powder or compound foam powder, double-effect foam powder, they are also food additives.how to carry out the social co-management of food additives First, improve regulations, standards, put an end to all kinds of illegal advertising. Some food companies are actually misleading the public by attracting consumers' attention through their food labels and advertising campaigns. For example, a well-known beverage company has the words "No artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no preservatives, no artificial saccharin" printed on its label. Special emphasis on "no artificial", the meaning is that artificial additives are not good. However, saccharging itself is not a natural additive and is synthesized by hand. The so-called propaganda without artificial sacchar down is deliberately hyped. For example, there is a beverage label printed with "no flavor, no preservatives, pigments, no pesticides, hormones, cholesterol" and so on. Food labels should tell consumers what they have, and do not allow companies to label "no silver here" according to their wishes. At present, China does not have the relevant regulatory standards and regulatory constraints, some manufacturers will take the opportunity to drill a hole.is to strengthen supervision, strictly enforce the law, treat all people equally and prevent unfair competition. For example, some imported chocolates contain food additives that are allowed by producing countries and not allowed in our country. Only prohibit imports, require foreign manufacturers in accordance with China's national standards for food additives to add food additives is difficult to do, if in accordance with China's GB2760 standards to add food additives, China allows the use of food additives varieties, quantity is small, chocolate quality will therefore decline. Another approach is for imported chocolate in China has not yet allowed the use of food additives, the relevant departments should urgently carry out
national safety
risk assessment, as soon as possible has not been allowed to use food additives added to China's national standards, but this work is currently difficult to implement. If the number of food additive varieties is added too quickly, it will cause the relevant parties to bear too much pressure on public opinion, this problem can only be set aside at present, still imported. If China's chocolate manufacturers only use the food additives allowed in China, and foreign chocolate is not bound, it will lead to China's chocolate in the competition at a disadvantage. It reflects that the number of varieties of food additives in china's national standards of food additives is too big a gap compared with foreign countries. If the variety and number can not catch up, although China has excellent, broad and profound traditional food culture, China's food industry to catch up with advanced countries is more difficult.is to crack down on illegal addition and abuse of food additives and other criminal violations. The act of distorting the facts and using demonized food additives for profit should also be dealt with in accordance with the law.is to strengthen the popularization of scientific knowledge of food additives, so that the public correctly understand food additives.the future of food additives in the near future food additives will certainly make food more colorful, without food additives there will be no modern food, there will be no future food.varieties of food additives show a dynamic trend of change, backward varieties will be eliminated, advanced varieties will increase. There are currently more than 170 food additives allowed in China and not allowed in Japan, most of which have been phased out by Japan. At the same time that backward varieties are eliminated, they should be supplemented with new varieties. In the next few decades, the number of food additive varieties in China should be increased appropriately, and when the number of food additive varieties in China is less different from that of developed countries and regions such as the United States, Western Europe and Japan, the number of food additives can remain relatively stable. At present, compared with developed countries, China has a large gap, to food spices, for example, in 2009, 2011 and 2013 the United States increased a total of 349 kinds of food spices, these 349 kinds of spices in China in 2014 newly promulgated GB2760 only 7 kinds, according to this trend, China's gap will gradually increase. natural food additives are an important direction for future development, and do not mean that natural food additives are superior to synthetic. The use of food additives is an objective need to improve
,
food safety, and promote food innovation. Only when the whole society correctly
numvest food additives
can we promote the healthy development of
food additives
and the food industry, so that food additives can better benefit mankind.
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