20 10 food safety incident 1: all dairy products should be tested for melamine.
Recently, the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine published the Detailed Rules for Examining the Licensing Conditions of Enterprises Producing Dairy Products (version 20 10) (draft for comments), and solicited opinions from all walks of life. According to the detailed rules, the procurement system should ensure that the purchased raw milk and raw milk powder and their processed products are inspected for melamine in batches.
According to the detailed rules, dairy products include liquid milk (pasteurized milk, sterilized milk, modified milk, fermented milk); Milk powder (whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, partially skimmed milk powder, blended milk powder, bovine colostrum powder); Other dairy products (condensed milk, cream, cheese, etc. ).
20 10 food safety incident 2: the propaganda of "iron fortified soy sauce" caused controversy.
Otherwise it may lead to food safety.
10 10/2 1 day, the Food Fortification Office of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced in Beijing that the second phase of the Iron Fortified Soy Sauce Project, jointly sponsored by China and the Global Alliance for Nutrition Improvement, was launched on the same day, with the goal of promoting it nationwide in three years, so that more people can buy iron fortified soy sauce.
However, as soon as the news came out, a skeptical related news began to spread widely on the Internet. Some experts have questioned that the iron supplement component "sodium ferric EDTA" in soy sauce may lead to the lack of calcium, iron, zinc and other substances in human body. "It will affect the absorption of zinc, and children will not grow up after eating." The expert also said that studies have shown that the higher the iron content in human blood, the higher the possibility of cancer, and iron supplementation should be achieved by adjusting diet.
The expert's views have been widely concerned and related articles have been reprinted by the media. Many people even criticized the iron fortified soy sauce, saying that "products with cancer risk should not be included in the list" and "people who are not sick should not be forced to eat iron fortified soy sauce" ... On the one hand, it was strongly advocated by government departments, on the other hand, it was publicly questioned by nutrition experts, and iron fortified soy sauce once became a hot topic.
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20 10 food safety incident 3: myolysis incident caused by Nanjing crayfish
Since July and August this year, Nanjing medical institutions have successively treated patients suspected of rhabdomyolysis syndrome caused by eating crayfish. Up to September 7th, 2000 12, 23 patients with rhabdomyolysis syndrome related to eating crayfish were treated in Nanjing.
Event result: On the afternoon of September 7, Nanjing held a press conference to inform the media about the suspected rhabdomyolysis syndrome caused by crayfish. According to the expert analysis of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the suspected case of crayfish is a transient rhabdomyolysis syndrome related to eating crayfish, which belongs to Huff's disease and is related to eating crayfish.
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20 10 food safety incident 4: the Ministry of health plans to ban flour brighteners.
65438+February 65438+May, the website of the Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Health publicly solicited opinions on whether to ban the use of flour whitening agents-benzoyl peroxide and calcium peroxide. At the same time, it is said that it is planned to ban flour brighteners from February next year. As soon as the news was announced, it attracted the attention of all walks of life.
According to the announcement for soliciting opinions, it is forbidden to use benzoyl peroxide and calcium peroxide in flour production from 201121. Flour and its products that previously used benzoyl peroxide and calcium peroxide according to relevant standards can be sold until the end of the product shelf life. The explanation is as follows: In order to minimize the impact of benzoyl peroxide withdrawal on the industry, the implementation time of policy adjustment will be about 1 year, mainly considering the production, sales and import cycle of flour.
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20 10 food safety incident 5: mushroom bleaching incident
Recently, Zhang Hao, a primary school student in Beijing, found that the incident of "mushrooms being bleached" has become the focus of social attention. After the Beijing Food Safety Office released the market sampling results of "the qualified rate of edible fungi is 97.73%", the China Edible Fungi Association said in the media on the 4th that it did not believe the experimental results of primary school students. On the contrary, in the voting initiated by a website, more than 1 100 votes chose "trust primary school students" and only 8 votes supported "trust the industrial and commercial bureau".
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Beijing Food Office: The fluorescent whitening substance on the surface of mushrooms comes from packaging pollution.
On June 1 day, Beijing Food Safety Office announced the recent special monitoring results of fluorescent whitening substances for mushroom products in Beijing market. Fluorescent whitening substances were detected on the surfaces of three samples, and the qualified rate of sampling inspection was 97.73%. According to expert analysis, the fluorescent whitening substance on the surface of mushrooms comes from packaging pollution.
Industrial and commercial quality inspection department: I shouldn't be in charge.
A catty of mushrooms was thrown into the basin, and the vegetable washing water quickly turned into pure white. In combination with the reports that "fluorescent whitening agents rinse mushrooms" appeared in various places, Liu Xianping, a housewife who lives in Shapingba, hopes that relevant departments can come forward to test and give the public a reassuring answer. However, the reporter contacted four departments yesterday, and no unit can manage this matter.