Soft feel, gently a tear on the broken, odor, is these unqualified disposable lunch box **** the same characteristics. Soft touch, so that the lunch box with a very inconvenient, and will even cause food or soup and other things when eating spillage; and odor, is the production of lunch boxes in the material contains toxic substances in the obvious signs. But it is such substandard tableware, why such a large number of circulation in the market? Why are so many catering companies using them and so many consumers not rejecting them?
"This kind of disposable lunch box, every day can sell seven or eight boxes." Reporters recently in Beijing's Dongjiao market, Laiguangying wholesale market of agricultural and sideline products found that this poor quality lunch boxes in a number of stalls are on sale. A stall owner said that because of the low price, this lunch box sales are very good. The reporter noted that the most common disposable lunch box has four kinds, the highest price of 0.4 yuan each, the lowest only 0.09 yuan. A stall owner introduced to the reporter, the fastest selling is the price of 0.16 yuan each, generally every day can sell seven or eight boxes. Each box of disposable lunch boxes roughly in 800 or so, were sold to various restaurants in the city. And many wholesale lunch box stall owners said the low price is an important reason for this low-quality lunch boxes are selling well.
The Xinfadi Wholesale Market, Beijing's largest wholesale market for agricultural products, is the distribution center for disposable plastic products in Beijing. Disposable lunch box manufacturers from around Beijing have wholesale outlets in this market. The reporter turned around and found that every store selling disposable lunch boxes is full of a variety of samples of disposable lunch boxes, there are biodegradable, environmentally friendly, the price also ranges from 9 cents to 40 cents. These environmentally friendly products really have a degradable function? A factory sales staff told reporters the real answer. It turns out that most of the so-called biodegradable lunch boxes sold here are counterfeits, made from some plastic waste and chemical raw materials. When the reporter asked which raw materials are made, the sales staff first stifled no answer, and finally popped out of the corner of the mouth two words: paraffin. Sales staff said, only then the cost will be reduced, if the real biodegradable materials to make lunch boxes, the cost of each lunch box to nearly 20 cents, too expensive, it is difficult to sell. They have been doing this paraffin lunch boxes for years, used to sell them in the Dazhongsi wholesale market, and now sell them in Xinfadi, and no one has ever checked them.
The salesperson also told the reporter that they have cheaper lunch boxes, and asked the reporter if she wanted them. When the reporter walked into the warehouse with her and found that the so-called cheaper lunch boxes turned out to be long out of the plastic foam disposable lunch boxes. And this kind of lunch box as early as 2001 by the state strictly prohibit the production and sale.
It is understood that the unqualified disposable lunch boxes mainly contain a large amount of industrial calcium carbonate, paraffin and other toxic substances, and some also use waste plastic. Wang Zhao, director of the hematology department of Beijing Friendship Hospital, introduced that the long-term use of unqualified disposable lunch boxes containing a large amount of industrial calcium carbonate will have an impact on the body's metabolic system, first of all, it is very easy to form gallstones, kidney stones. In addition, industrial calcium carbonate contains a large number of heavy metals, and heavy metals may be more harmful to the human body. Because it contains lead, lead is also very harmful to the human digestive tract and nervous system. Especially children, in the developmental period, their nervous system is in the process of formation, after consuming a large amount of lead, the children's nervous system will have an impact, there will be such as hyperactivity disorder.
The test results are worrying at present, China's annual use of more than 12 billion lunch boxes, an average of nearly 10 per person will be used up. Its consumption is more concentrated, in addition to office buildings, tourist attractions, shopping malls, amusement parks and stations are also places where consumption is relatively large. November 6, CCTV exposure of Tianjin production of disposable lunch boxes used in the "waste" exceeded the standard more than 160 times, a large number of industrial calcium carbonate, waste plastic and industrial paraffin wax is so eaten by consumers into the mouth.
At the same time, the State Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection under the National Environmental Protection Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center issued on September 9, 2005, No. 12, "disposable food and drink utensils, food packaging bags / film products," revealing that, in 2002, disposable food and drink utensils for the national supervision and sampling, the sampling rate of 52%; in 2003 in Hebei Province, disposable food and drink utensils for the national supervision and sampling. In 2003, in Hebei Province, the national supervision and testing of disposable food and drink utensils, the sample passing rate of 43%; in 2004, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce jointly with the Beijing Environmental Protection Tableware Joint Organization of the Beijing market for sampling and testing, the sample passing rate of 40%.
The report pointed out that there are very serious safety and quality problems in disposable food and drink utensils, mainly, firstly, there is a big problem of hygienic performance, due to the addition of a large amount of calcium carbonate, industrial paraffin and recycled waste in the raw materials of the production, resulting in the evaporation residue of the product (n-hexane, acetic acid) seriously exceeding the standard; secondly, the use of performance is poor, the load weight is unqualified, the deviation of the volume is large, and the phenomenon of seepage is present; thirdly, the degradation performance is unqualified. Degradation performance is not qualified, some enterprises will be filled with calcium carbonate products as degradation products, and such products can not really degrade.
It is understood that there are two kinds of disposable tableware, one is mostly made of wood fiber, which is an environmentally friendly product, biodegradable; the other is made of chemical raw materials, which may contain toxic fillers, non-degradable. In the production of a large number of calcium carbonate, talc, industrial paraffin and waste plastics and other prohibited materials, will lead to the lunch box added minerals and additives, etc., and food contained in water, vinegar, oil and other mutual dissolution, with the food into the human body, it may trigger dyspepsia, localized pain, as well as hepatic system pathology and other diseases, affecting the intellectual development of children, and serious will lead to gallstones, heavy metal poisoning, and even cellular cancer. 8