For food additives, the experts pointed out that "the decision-dose hazard." For example table salt is also a food additive, everyone knows that it is an indispensable element in the human body, but if the one-time consumption of large doses of salt, then people may also result in acute death. It is understood that a variety of food additives can use, scope of use and maximum usage, all countries have strict regulations and subject to legal constraints. In the use of food additives prior to the relevant departments will add the right ingredients to strict quality and safety indicators for testing.
A large number of examples that occurred related to food safety issues and additives, often out in the food processing and marketing sectors. Statistics show that almost every food sampling, preservatives (including benzoic acid, sodium benzoate, etc. 34) will be a problem. China Central Television's Weekly Quality Report "Sichuan kimchi" is a fairly typical example. Processing pickles workers said they Pickles preservative (sodium benzoate) usage is actually 0.3%. According to national standards, the processing of pickled vegetables, the amount of sodium benzoate should not exceed five ten thousandths, this plant had six times the amount exceeded. According to analysis,
Caused by excessive use of preservatives, some manufacturers lack of food safety awareness, the fundamental problem regardless of amount of additives, some of them are outdated factory equipment is simple: lack of precision measurement equipment, control usage, it is prone to excessive situation. There are no relevant manufacturers of advanced equipment, add preservatives stirring often appears uneven case, which can also cause high levels of preservatives in the product.
So what excessive consumption of additives on the health effects? Excessive ingestion of preservative may cause people suffering from cancer, though generally not in the short term there are significant symptoms arise, but once the cancer-causing substances into the food chain, cycle repeated, long-term accumulation, not only affects the health of the consumers themselves , for the next generation's health is also no small threat. Ingestion of toxins the human body will result in excessive pigment deposition on the nervous system, digestive system and so on would cause harm.