Is it true that Hong Kong milk powder causes cancer? Yes, but it doesn't have much impact.
1. Chloropropanediol (3-MCPD) is a pollutant in food processing. Excessive intake will damage renal function and affect male reproductive system. 15 All samples of infant formula milk powder were tested this time. The allowable daily intake of the European Food Safety Agency is 8.6 micrograms, and the Consumer Council also determined that all samples exceeded the standard according to this standard. However, breast milk also contains chloropropanediol.
2. Glycidyl ester (GE) produced when vegetable oil is refined at high temperature is genotoxic and carcinogenic. Nine samples were tested this time. But they are all below the EU ceiling, so don't worry.
3. Lead, all detected, but not exceeding the upper limit of Codex Alimentarius Commission standards (0.0 1 mg per kilogram), and the related content should not pose a risk to the health of infants. Don't worry.
None of the above milk powder has been taken off the shelf, in other words, these milk powders are all qualified milk powders.
5. Why has domestic milk powder never been reported to exceed the standard of chloropropanediol? Because it does not contain? No, because domestic milk powder has not been tested.
What are the cancer-causing brands of milk powder in Hong Kong? The Consumer Council tested 15 prepackaged infant formula on the market and found that all of them contained propylene glycol, of which Bellamy had the highest organic content, followed by Meiji. If the baby is fed according to the recommended intake, the highest content of "Bellamy's organic" will exceed the daily allowable intake stipulated by the European Food Safety Agency. According to the report of Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and the European Food Safety Agency, long-term daily intake of excessive chloropropanediol in experimental animals will damage renal function and affect male reproductive system.
Nine infant formulas containing genotoxic and carcinogenic epoxypropanol (in descending order):
How to treat the carcinogenicity of milk powder in Hong Kong can only say that foreign standards are higher, because the detection of DBP is related to the environment. For example, the breast milk content of the population in big cities may be higher than that in rural areas. Different brands and bottles of peanut oil, different production lines and different production times have different DBP. Without exact data, the DBP of each food is a range of data.
Finally, as far as I know, there is no 3MCPD requirement for raw oil in the national standard, but Europe has paid attention to it for several years. At present, European standards have the most stringent restrictions on the raw material vegetable oil used in infant formula, namely 3MCPD, 25ppm. In other words, Europe also thinks that it is not realistic to completely detect 3MCPD in vegetable oil.
Therefore, in this spot check, European factories have better control over this pollutant, which should be related to this.