"Beijing will consume 2 million disposable tableware every day, of which 400,000, or 20 percent, are foamed plastic tableware, 30 percent of which meet national environmental requirements, and the remaining 50 percent are substandard products." Yesterday, engaged in disposable tableware research and development work for more than 10 years of packaging and environmental protection experts Dong Jinshi said, unqualified disposable plastic lunch boxes, bowls and trays added a large number of waste plastics and fillers, heat or grease will be released cancer-causing and disease-causing chemicals, a serious hazard to human health. Dong Jinshi is deputy director of the China Packaging Resources Comprehensive Utilization Committee, according to Xinmin Evening News.
20% of Beijing's poor-quality lunch boxes come from Dinghai
Dong Jinshi, who participated in China's disposable tableware survey yesterday, said half of the substandard tableware on the Beijing market comes from areas such as Yongqing County in Hebei Province and Dinghai County in Tianjin, and the other half comes from underground factories and small workshops in Beijing. In Tianjin Dinghai County, a production of disposable tableware underground factory inspection found that the raw materials used in this factory are waste plastic, but also a large number of added industrial paraffin and other harmful substances banned by the state. It is understood that 20% of Beijing's low-quality lunch boxes from the region. Dong Jinshi introduction, the market 1 ton of polypropylene (PP) market price of 11,000 yuan, and filler 1 ton of market price of even less than 2,000 yuan, which is the reason why many manufacturers illegally add filler. Illegal addition of industrial paraffin long-term intake may cause cancer Dong Jinshi said,
Many manufacturers in the product raw materials added talc
Powder, calcium carbonate and so on even more than 50%, which leads to tableware in the hazardous substances in the serious exceeded the standard. With a hot water soak, microwave a turn, harmful substances will be dissolved in the food, long-term intake will lead to indigestion, gallstones and liver system lesions. If the tableware contains industrial paraffin, it may even cause cancer.
The use of disposable tableware link three unregulated
"The health sector is managed by the catering business environmental health and disinfection of tableware, quality supervision department is in charge of the field of production, industry and commerce department is in charge of the circulation area, and the most critical use of the link has become 'unregulated'. But the restaurant packing, delivery companies to send food, with disposable tableware, which is a key link." Also according to Dong Jinshi, "80% of the market labeled degradable lunch boxes are inferior products." It is also reported that the boxes of some brands of instant noodles were also found to be problematic two years ago.
Note on the application of daily life:
In daily life should try to use porcelain or glass tableware products, followed by the use of disposable transparent plastic products, try not to use paper cups series of products. We first break down the poor quality paper cups, it is composed of: paper, printing ink, industrial paraffin, lamination paper. The following sequential explanation.
A, paper: many manufacturers in order to maximize profits, and will not use food-grade wood pulp paper. Substandard abounds. If the paper is not good (recycled waste paper) will use bleaching powder and fluorescent whitening agent, which is the ordinary consumer can not distinguish.
Two, printing ink: in the era of production costs determine everything, the national standards on printing ink does not seem to be effective. Therefore, the ink containing benzene and toluene also flooded the market. For the printed paper cups after stacking, the ink is likely to contaminate the inner wall of the paper cups.
Three, industrial paraffin: paper cups if you do not do waterproofing, it can still be filled with water? Therefore, there is a paper cup is paraffin wax soaked. Wax contains a harmful substance called "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons", and the melting point of wax is 40 °, and the oil can dissolve the wax, you know the consequences.
Four, film paper: generally we are so called, but in fact is the inner polyethylene plastic film. A lot of paper cups with film paper instead of paraffin. But there is no paraffin "protection" of the outer wall of the cup in the moisture may be moldy, folded cups, the inner wall will be contaminated by mold. As for the plastic film, if it is not a food-grade material, it will decompose into harmful substances at high temperatures.
In addition to this, low-quality paper cups have been exposed to contain bisphenol A. According to experts from Nanjing Medical University, after measuring the bisphenol A content of some household products, the results show that the test disposable paper cups in the bisphenol A content is 30 times that of the disposable plastic cups, and the bisphenol A content of rainwater is more than five times that of pure water from the water fountains. Simply put, the commonly used plastic cup materials are PP and PS. PP is heat-resistant, microwaveable, so you've used the LeCarlo LeCarlo plastic box is made of PP. PS is not heat-resistant, and therefore commonly used in the cold drink packaging this piece. In the production process, plastic cups than paper cups health, because the production of plastic cups is simple, high-temperature molding cooling immediately after packaging. Paper cups are printed, cut paper, attached film, rolled, rolled edge, do not know how many hands to be touched.
But then again, plastic cups are really okay, but not in China. In the past, someone even asked me if I could use recycled plastic to make plastic cups, and I despised it in my heart, but I couldn't show it. I told him that recycled plastic has impurities and the cups are not beautiful. Recycled material is only one, I believe very few people do this. Because the market competition is fierce ah. Transparent plastic cups can be seen at a glance good or bad. Then there are invisible? It is the additives. Gypsum powder (milky white cups)? Tougheners? Antifreeze? I don't know if they are harmful or not. But one thing is certain, China's plastic cups exported to the United States is "food-grade pure PP". People's eyes can not tolerate a little impurity, test failed immediately let you go home!
In fact, in our daily lives, we contact the fresh food containers, packing boxes, plastic bags, food bags, plastic cups, we must go to carefully observe, if the use of transparent products can be completely at ease to use, because basically it is polypropylene raw materials and polyethylene raw materials in a single processing of molding, the process of the process did not add any additives as well as additives; if you find that the use of the process of the lunch box to give you the Other colors, especially milky white, please do not use, because the process of adding masterbatch raw materials or color powder, milky white a large number of additive filler masterbatch to reduce costs.