"Vanillin is harmful to the baby, and some milk powder will contain it. It is recommended to use milk powder for your baby or choose some better brand milk powder. " This is the advice given by many doctors to mothers who have just given birth to a baby. Aoyou and Mead Johnson are the big names in the doctor's mouth.
Recently, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued a notice on the unqualified sampling of 13 batches of food. Among them, the "Pure Extracted Infant Formula Milk Powder 1", the general agent of Aoyou Dairy (China) Co., Ltd., was fined 962 1.300 yuan by the market supervision department for detecting the prohibited substance vanillin. According to the latest information from Huangpu District Market Supervision Administration, Mead Johnson Nutrition (China) Co., Ltd. was fined 654.38+0 yuan by the market supervision department for detecting the prohibited substance vanillin. Many people will ask, what is vanillin? According to the data, vanillin is a kind of edible and perfume, which has a strong milk flavor, so it is widely used in milk powder, cakes, cold drinks, chocolates, sweets and other products. Proper amount of vanillin helps to improve the milk taste of food, but excessive amount will cause headache, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea and even damage to liver and kidney. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the key to a baby's growth lies in the kidney. If kidney is not good is used, it will directly affect the formation of brain marrow and bone marrow, thus affecting the normal growth of children.
According to public information, Aoyou Dairy Co., Ltd. is a professional high-end dairy and food company listed on the main board of Hong Kong. It owns Aoyou Dairy (China) Co., Ltd. and Aoyou Haipoke (Netherlands) Dairy Company, and its products sell well in more than 40 countries and regions such as China, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.
Mead Johnson is also an international brand, which has a history of more than 100 years since its establishment. At present, more than 70 kinds of nutritional products produced by Mead Johnson are sold in more than 50 countries and regions. On August 25th, 20 18, Mead Johnson also won the award of "Quality and Safety Management Benchmark Enterprise" at the 24th Annual Meeting of China Dairy Industry Association held in Xi 'an.
According to industry sources, China's laws and regulations clearly stipulate that vanillin is not allowed to be added to infant milk powder for 0-6 months, so Aoyou and Mead Johnson will not be popular all over the world. However, as Aoyou and Mead Johnson are international brands with many products, they are likely to be mixed into the production line. Unlike China's strict requirement that vanillin should not be added, there is no requirement in international standards that vanillin should not be added to 1 milk powder. But strangely, most foreign milk powder production pipelines are stainless steel, which is very smooth and easy to clean. After cleaning, the environment will be air-dried, so there should be no residual ingredients in theory.
International brands have repeatedly acted because of technical problems that lead to excessive vanillin. Abbott, Xibao, etc. There has been such a situation. Different international brands have security risks again and again for the same reason. Is this just a simple process problem? Is it simple worker negligence? Or do enterprises sacrifice the safe growth of tens of millions of China babies in order to avoid opening new production lines and increasing costs? Or, just take safety in production as a slogan and never pay attention to national laws and regulations? International brands represent industry standards and word-of-mouth, so even if its price is more expensive than domestic similar products, many consumers will choose it. But if the standards are gone and the credibility is gone, will international brands only be expensive? Aoyou and Mead Johnson, please don't lose face.