Why are nearly half of food additives not tested?

From melamine, Sudanese red, industrial gelatin to beef paste and lamb essence, illegal food additions are the difficult and blind spot of food safety regulation. Recently, the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee organized some representatives to Pudong to carry out food safety supervision system research, some representatives from the grass-roots level reflected that the current health department published the list of illegal food additives, nearly half of the lack of testing standards.In recent years, food safety "dead sheep" a lot, although our "prison" although also continued to make up, for example, to strengthen the regulatory force, the establishment of the State Food and Drug Administration; However, our food testing standards still do not keep pace with the times. In the bulletin "List of non-edible substances and food additives that may be added illegally in food" issued by the health department, the types of non-edible substances and food additives are clearly defined, but it is worrying that nearly half of the prohibited substances do not have relevant testing standards.food is because there is no testing standards, resulting in food difficult to regulate, law enforcement lack of basis. Recently, Shanghai Pudong New Area Market Supervision Bureau inspection found that a market sales of aquatic products formaldehyde content is high, due to lack of standards, can not determine whether the substance is artificially added, formaldehyde content of higher food handling and lack of clear legal and regulatory provisions, resulting in still difficult to qualitative punishment.standards for food testing should keep pace with the times. First of all, the right to set food testing standards must be attributed to the authorities. Relevant departments should also strengthen the development of food safety standards, strictly regulate the use of food additives, from the source to root out the "standard" problem., establish a strict food safety standards testing mechanism. Food testing standards should be updated at all time. The provisions of prohibited additives, reflecting the public food safety due responsibility, and at any time to check the risks, revision of testing standards, the introduction of prohibited regulations.again, after-the-fact supervision for active testing. This should strengthen detection capabilities, for example, Japan can detect 400 kinds of pesticide residues, and China has only the ability to detect dozens of agricultural residues of equipment, this phenomenon should be changed.people to eat for the day, food to safety first. On the issue of food safety, we have paid a lot of price, in the future, we must build a food safety "firewall." First of all, to develop better food testing standards as soon as possible, from the traditional emphasis on after-the-fact supervision to pre-prevention, from temporary testing to pay attention to daily testing. If implemented, when can alleviate the people's current food safety anxiety. Otherwise, food has no testing standards, who dares to eat?