The Nandu survey descens the myth of "no added food".

Original title: Nandu investigation punctured the "no added food" myth
claimed that "no additives", but the ingredients table is written containing glycolycol;
In fact, there are moderate amounts of additives is not terrible, terrible, some businesses have begun to use consumers "prefer to trust it have" psychology, hype "no addition to the health" marketing gimmick. However, this is not the case.
with the rise of micro-commerce, "no add" food has found another excellent selling channel. "No additions," "zero preservatives" ... These propagandas are not only common on the Internet, but are not uncommon in supermarkets, and often cost several times more than regular food. But are these foods labeled "no additions" really additive-free? Why do food called "no additions" often double in price? Is "no addition" really healthier? Recently, Nandu reporters have conducted an investigation into these issues.
The General Office of the State Council recently issued the 2017 Food Safety Key Work Arrangements, emphasizing the need to crack down on illegal additions, over-range over-limit use of additives and other issues. The April 17 newscast also covered the issue of food rumors. It mentioned that in response to rumors about food safety on the Internet, the State Food and Drug Administration is working with relevant departments to establish a long-term mechanism to control and rectify food rumors.
it is understood that since 2017, the public security organs have issued more than a dozen release, spread food rumors of the administrative detention punishment, a food rumor publisher has been arrested by the prosecution.
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is more expensive without adding it?
't add security? Experts say there is a lot of hype!
search for "no additions" on Taobao, with at least 4,400 items related, the vast majority of which are food. A large number of stores that call themselves "no additions" can also be found in micro-stores.
these products really don't contain any additives?
Nandu reporter noted that a Taobao store called "first x hand baking" is selling an oat cookie, the product promotion page clearly marked "without any additives", but in the ingredients table, should have been labeled as additives xylitol is hanging.
Nandu reporter immediately asked the store for proof, the store said, added glycol, but the rest did not have any additives.
are not in the minority of foods on the market that claim to contain no additives. "Farmer pure manual", "homemade", "private room" as the key words of this kind of hand workshop is generally sold through the online shop. Especially the recent rise of micro-commerce, but also to these foods to find new sales channels.
last year, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are media will be online shopping "no add manual mooncakes" sent for inspection, four kinds of handmade moon cakes, only sweet one has two were detected.
"no add" food is once again sought after, and prices are rising.
recently, Nandu reporters visited several supermarkets, and in Taobao and other shopping platforms to search for no added food, found that once the food hung up the "no add" name, the price often doubled.
To a well-known soy sauce enterprises, for example, in Tmall flagship store, non-"no added" soy sauce sold for 25.9 yuan 1.6 liters, marked "no added" soy sauce, but the price is as high as 480 ml 22.8 yuan, is nearly three times the price of ordinary soy sauce.
why are "no added" foods selling for so much? Some of the people interviewed told Nandu reporters, in their view, "no added food safety, good for the body" "price although expensive but eat at ease."
but is that really the case? Cao Yiping, a professor in the Department of Food Science and Engineering at Beijing University of Commerce and Industry's School of Food, told Nandu that "no addition" is a commercial concept that businesses can hype, but that doesn't mean "no add" food is safer.
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is there really food without any additives?
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without food additives there is no food industry
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In fact, there is almost no processed food without any additives on the market.
Sun Baoguo, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and vice president of Beijing University of Industry and Commerce, said recently at the "China Food Safety 30 People Forum" that "the food industry knows that there is no food industry without food additives, but a number of food enterprises, on the one hand, enjoy food additives to food The benefits of production, storage, sale and consumption, on the one hand, in smearing food additives, misleading consumers, deliberately branding 'zero add', to consumers to suggest that food additives are not good things, which is not only contrary to objective facts, but also irresponsible to consumers. "
but the status quo is that merchants are still using the concept of "no add" to hype, emphasizing "no additions to health".
Nandu reporters randomly in Taobao query "no added" food, in the details of goods, merchants often use "only for every bite to eat at ease", "without any additives, we pay more attention to health" and other propaganda, and even businesses are quite "proud": if the pursuit of the outside West Point that kind of "scent" please bypass.
is a food additive? The official explanation is to add chemical synthesis or natural substances to food to improve its quality and color, aroma, taste, and the need for anti-corrosion and processing processes. Including preservatives, colors, flavors, sweeteners, flavorings, etc. all fall into this category.
Cao Yuping told Nandu reporters, even if consumers themselves use water and flour pancakes, in the process, although no additives, but flour, oil or there are additives.
this view of the authority has also carried out a number of popular science.
On June 11, 2014, the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center issued the "Twenty Questions on Food Additives", which clearly states that in the modern food industry environment, food products that do not use food additives at all have been difficult to find, even if they cook at home, using oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other condiments, will contain certain food additives.
, "no addition" is just a gimmick for business promotions, not reliable.
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no harmful substances does not mean no additives
it is understood that the label "no added" food is mainly baked goods, brewed food, fruit, yogurt and so on. Among them, although "no add" is mostly hype, but does not rule out the very few possible "no add" situation. Most of these "non-added" foods require consumers to take special preservation measures, such as immediately after purchase into the refrigerator refrigeration, use of immediate sealing and so on. Food can easily go bad if not stored properly or for a little longer.
, what exactly is added to the vast majority of the "no added" foods on the market? Nandu reporters noted that the propaganda called "no addition" basically has the following three situations:
1 refers to do not add harmful substances, such as melamine, Sudan red and so on. But these are not additives, but illegal additives. These substances do not have to be added to food, when added to human health harm.
, some businesses argue that "no addition" in their products means not adding harmful substances, which is a word game. No harmful substances do not mean no additives.
is the use of food additives "into the principle" to conceal the fact that there are additives in food. Such as a meat intestine ingredients for "pork, soy protein, refined salt, white sugar", although the food ingredients table does not contain additives, but because refined salt, white sugar in the production of anti-colon agents, so this meat intestine should not be called "no added" food.
this practice is not illegal. According to the General Rules of Prepackaged Food Labeling, food additives contained in compound ingredients with a quantity less than 25% of the total amount of food, if in accordance with G? If the B?2760 provides for the principle of bring-in and does not have a process function in the final product, no marking is required.
is also the narrowing of the concept of "no addition".
understand that there is no clear definition of "no addition" in the domestic, merchants in the promotion of the "no add" will easily mislead consumers that food does not contain any additives. Nandu reporter found that in some businesses' propaganda pages, the so-called "no addition" actually refers to only not adding flavor, preservatives, pigments, these three types of food additives.
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is it really safer to eat additive-free foods?
called
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food is more likely to rot
not only "no added" processed food does not exist, even foods containing the right amount of additives than "no added" more safe.
Luo Yunbo, dean of the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering at China Agricultural University, told Nandu that there is no evidence that additive-free foods are healthier than ordinary foods, and even some self-proclaimed "no added" foods are more prone to food spoilage and much greater harm to human health because they do not add preservatives and other additives. And these allowed additives to be added to food, in the right amount of the case, there is no harm to the human body.
food additives currently allowed to be added in China, are in the "G? B?2760-2014 Food Additives Use Standards" to be marked, and specify which additives can be used by certain types of food, how much.
, food additives can enhance the color of food flavor, but also to ensure the quality and safety of food within a certain period of time.
, questions about the toxicity of potassium iron cyanide, a salt-resistant agent, circulated on the Internet. Some netizens said, "Now eat a salt bar have additives, after eating white flavor", "think of their own for decades has been equivalent to being forced to eat poison." However, it should be noted that toxicity needs to be unified with the dose, even if sugar, salt and other condiments eat too much will be harmful to the body.
, for example, potassium cyanide, the allowable daily intake is 0? 025m?g/kgbw, more than this dose may cause harm to the human body.
The Ministry of Health has calculated that China's recommended daily intake of salt is 6g, taking into account the actual salt intake of our residents is generally high, according to the daily intake of 15 grams of salt per person, if in accordance with the standard (maximum use of 10m?g/kg) provisions of the use of potassium trigcyanide, daily intake of 0? 15m?g. According to the adult weight of 60 kg, the intake is 0? 0025m?g/kgbw, well below the daily allowable intake of humans.
, whether or not to contain additives is not to judge whether food is healthy, high quality standards, and the type of additives, how much is more able to affect the quality of food, taste factors.
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the concept
"no added"?
it illegal for a person to use
"no addition" as a gimmick if it is a fraud or a violation of the rights of food security?
"Prepackaged Food Labeling General Rules" clearly stipulates that should be true, accurate, not false, exaggerated, so that consumers misunderstood or deceptive text, graphics and other ways to introduce food, nor use the size or color difference to mislead consumers.
Cao Qiping, a professor in the Department of Food Science and Engineering at The School of Food Science and Industry of Beijing University of Commerce and Industry, told Nandu that there are clear provisions in Chinese law on the expression that cannot be used in publicity, but it does not specify whether it is legal to emphasize "no addition" in food propaganda.
Although the legal provisions are not clearly defined, Nandu reporters note that according to some of the cases that have been decided, the promotion of "no added" food if detected to contain additives, merchants have also been subject to certain penalties.
In June and July 2015, Zheng Xiaohai purchased 16 boxes of Thai mango dried at a unit price of 27.9 yuan at Wuyi Road, Hualian supermarket, according to the China Referee Papers Network. The mango-dried outer packaging is clearly labeled "100% fruit, no additions". But when Zheng Xiaohai bought after testing found that mango dried added citric acid, apple acid, sulphate three food additives. Zheng Xiaohai then took the operator to ——— Beijing Hualian General Supermarket Co., Ltd. to court.
, the court ordered the company to refund the purchase price of 446.4 yuan, and pay ten times the original price of compensation of 4464 yuan.
Liu Zhixin, a professional lawyer in the field of food safety at Guangdong Longxin (Shenzhen) Law Firm, told Nandu that food companies should look in two if they are suspected of violating the law by declaring terms such as "no addition" and "no addition".
he pointed out that this practice does not necessarily violate the relevant laws and regulations. China's existing laws and regulations and food safety standards do not expressly prohibit such propaganda (except infant formula milk powder products).
addition, the term "do not add x x" does not necessarily constitute fraud and is considered to be in line with food safety standards if it complies with the "bring-in principle" set out in the Food Additives Use Standards.
But it claims to contain an ingredient that has been tested for "fraud" in the civil law sense, and violates mandatory food safety standards if it is not only actually contained, but is even added in an over-limit.
, Liu Zhixin lawyer said, if it is fraud or violation of food safety standards, under the premise of sufficient evidence, can successfully defend rights. On the question of who bears the legal responsibility of producers and operators, consumers may demand compensation from both, or both.
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to face up to additives without absolute
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"no added" food is really not containing any additives? Is "no add" food really healthier?
, Cao Qiping, a professor in the Department of Food Science and Engineering at the School of Food Science of Beijing University of Commerce and Industry, opened up the truth about "no added" food in an interview with Nandu. In his view, in our daily life, not only does not have absolute "no added" food, but also can not be separated from the existence of additives, and "no added" food is not necessarily healthier.
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