Since 2005, the application of saccharin in food has had a significant over-scope and over-dose phenomenon. In order to reduce costs and earn huge profits, some manufacturers commonly use saccharin, which is harmful to the human body, in place of sucrose in foods such as beverages, preserved fruits and even jellies exclusively for children's consumption, but do not make any explicit statement on food labels, thus harming consumers' health and seriously infringing on the consumers' right to know.

Toluene, chlorosulfonic acid and o-toluidine are the main raw materials for manufacturing saccharin, all of which are petrochemical products. Toluene is easy to volatile and combustible, and even cause an explosion, a large number of intake of human body will cause acute poisoning, more harmful to human health.

The intermediate substances produced during the production of saccharin are also harmful to human health. Saccharin will also seriously pollute the environment during the production process. In addition, from some small and medium-sized saccharin factory private flow into the vast number of small and medium-sized towns, rural markets, saccharin, but also because of the process is rough, the process is incomplete and other reasons and contains heavy metals, ammonia compounds, arsenic and other debris.

Some enterprises in order to chase profits, in the production of beverages and processed food, over the amount and scope of the use of saccharin, but in the food and beverage labels do not indicate the presence of saccharin and its true content, so that consumers are mistakenly thought to eat sugar, harming the health of consumers, but also a serious violation of the consumer's right to know.

In particular, a small number of consumers, completely unaware of the dangers of saccharin, consume large quantities of saccharin within a short period of time, causing thrombocytopenia and causing acute hemorrhage, multiple organ damage, etc., triggering malignant poisoning incidents.

According to a survey conducted by the China Consumers' Association on nearly 100 different grades and types of beverages in China recently, about 61.2% of the beverages contain various types of sweeteners nationwide, of which 55.1% are saccharin-containing beverages; 23.5% of the beverages use saccharin in their production but are not labeled as such; especially in the small and medium-sized towns and the rural market, the beverages containing saccharin are as high as 90.9%, with saccharin as high as 90.9%, and saccharin as high as 90%. In particular, in small and medium-sized towns and rural markets, the number of drinks containing saccharin is as high as 90.9%, and the extent of saccharin's proliferation is alarming.

In the snacks of primary and secondary school students, the problem of saccharin should not be ignored. Around some primary and secondary schools, there are all kinds of snack stalls dotted around, selling all kinds of small foods and drinks, such as soft drinks, ice-cream, plums and so on. These small foods and drinks of low value can easily attract primary and secondary school students to buy them. However, these products, which have neither production standards nor any labeling or provenance at all, basically contain saccharin, which, when consumed over a long period of time, can lead to malnutrition among young people.

To this end, the China Consumer Association has issued a solemn warning: to the relevant departments to study and formulate more stringent regulations on the use of saccharin and further strengthen the management of food labeling; to call on the majority of food manufacturers not to blindly use saccharin to the detriment of consumer health due to the unilateral pursuit of profits, and to clearly indicate the presence of saccharin in products that are permitted by the state to allow the use of saccharin, so as to let the consumer be informed; to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the consumer. The legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

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