Food safety standards vary for different hot pot bases.

As an example,

The additive standards are different for clear soup pot base and pot base with added solids such as scorpion pot base

The food additives that are allowed to be added by the state are not harmful to human beings within the standard range.

Only excessive amounts are harmful.

For example, to increase the viscosity of the hot pot soup base can be added gelatin can also be added agar.

The following link is the 2011 national food safety standards gb2760 if there is no excess, it is harmless to the human body