Frequently Asked Questions about Sugar Safety

Weekend Reporter Dai Xiuhui

People use food as their food. Food safety has always been a matter of public concern.

Six months ago, the Legal Weekend Weekend reporter collected statistics on the food safety inspections conducted by the State Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter referred to as the “National Food and Drug Administration”) for the entire year of 2016 (see “Rule of Law Weekend” December 20, 2016, “Food Sampling the black list of "views".

According to the 2016 data, infant milk powder special sampling inspections are still common in the “black list of regular customers.” Alcoholic beverages and health wines have not been extirpated, and cyclamate problems are looming. In the honey industry, chloramphenicol is still a chronic illness.

Then, in the past six months, what other companies have been notified by the regulatory authorities because of food safety issues and what food safety issues have become new in the past six months?

As a result, the Rule of Law Weekend reporter once again combed the food inspection notice for the 28 categories of foods announced by the State Food and Drug Administration between January 1 and June 30, 2017 (excluding sampling activities conducted by local food and drug administrations).

These 28 categories of foods include sugar, starch and starch products, alcohol, infant milk powder special sampling and dairy products, fruit products, bee products, edible oils, oils and fats and their products.

Statistics show that in the first half of 2017, the State Food and Drug Administration conducted a random inspection of 14323 batches of 28 foods; among them, 115 batches of unqualified products accounted for 0.8% of the total sampling.

The data also showed that sugar, fruit products, starch and starch products, and cakes are becoming new hidden dangers in food safety; bees and alcoholic beverages still have cyclamate or chloramphenicol; the good news is that the baby is the focus of supervision. Children's milk powder, "black list of regular customers" has disappeared, the problem is less.

Sugar and cake frequent food safety issues

So, how do each of the 28 foods perform?

Fortunately, the Legal Weekend Weekend reporter noticed that a total of 9 types of 28 types of foods were qualified in the 23 sampling notices issued by the State Food and Drug Administration. These 9 types of food are frozen food, canned food, processed food products, confectionary products, frozen drinks, egg products, soy products, special diets, edible agricultural products (000061, stocks).

In addition, other 19 types of foods were found to be more or less unqualified in spot checks by the State Food and Drug Administration.

If we simply use the 0.8% of the total sampling defect rate as a standard line of comparison, then there are altogether 7 types of food failure rate (ie, the batch of food that is not qualified is divided by the total batch of food sampling). Exceeded the standard line.

The 7 types of food were roasted food and nut products (failure rate of 1.03%), sugar (failure rate of 6.32%), fruit products (failure rate of 2.61%), and cakes (failure rate of 1.93%). , Vegetable foods (failure rate of 1.6%), aquatic products (failure rate of 1.76%), starch and starch products (failure rate of 5.33%).

Obviously, in these seven types of foods, the highest unqualified rate of sugar was found, followed by starch and starch products.

According to statistics, in the first half of 2017, the State Food and Drug Administration took a total of 190 batches of sugar samples, of which 12 batches were unqualified; in addition, a total of 169 batches of starch and starch products were sampled, of which 9 batches were unqualified. .

In fact, if we compare the number of batches of unqualified products in the 28 types of foods, then the unqualified batch of sugar is also in the first place.

Statistics show that the top 3 food categories with unqualified product batches are sugar and cakes (12 batches of unqualified products), fruit products (11 batches of unqualified products), starch and starch products. And aquatic products (non-conforming products are 9 batches).

So, what are the causes of these food safety issues?

According to the announcement of the State Food and Drug Administration, the major problems of sugar are the detection value of sucrose, the value of reduced sugar, the value of color value, and the value of water-insoluble impurities that do not meet national standards. In addition, more than four batches of sugar detected sulfur dioxide detection value exceeded.

However, there are more problems with pastries.

The rule-of-law Weekend reporter combed and found that in the 12 batches of unsatisfactory cakes, there were a total of 4 batches of products with excessive peroxide value detection, 1 batch of product with preservatives exceeding the standard, 4 batches of product with excessive colony count, and 3 batches of product with large intestine. Bacillus exceeded.

What needs to be mentioned is that Zhejiang Ye Jiao Jiao Trading Co., Ltd. entrusted Hangzhou Siweiwang Food Co., Ltd. to produce pure mung bean cakes with a total number of bacterial colonies exceeding 165.7 times; and it also has black sesame produced by Hangzhou Qiandaohu Yejiaojiao Food Co., Ltd. (000716 , Stocks) Thin slices of E. coli exceeded 152.3 times.

In addition, the main problems with starch and starch products are excessive levels of lead residue, mold, and E. coli. Among them, the problem of residual lead concentration is the most concentrated. There are five batches of unqualified starch and starch products in 9 batches with excessive lead residue.

Baby milk powder: improving day by day

Baby milk powder has always been the focus of supervision by the regulatory authorities. Since 2016, the State Food and Drug Administration's special supervision and inspection of infant formula milk powder has changed from quarter sampling to monthly sampling.

Time goes into the first half of 2017. Judging from the results of random inspections, the rule-of-law Weekend reporter noted that the issue of infant formula milk powder food safety is being further improved.

First of all, the rate of unsatisfactory sampling of infant formula milk powder is decreasing.

According to statistics in 2016, the State Administration of Pharmaceutics and Drug Administration had a total of 2,639 batches of infant milk powder samples during 2016. A total of 15 dairy products involved 29 batches of unqualified products, and the product failure rate was 1.1%. From January to May 2016, a total of 1,047 batches of samples were sampled. Fourteen batches of products were unqualified, and the product failure rate was 1.34%.

The statistics in the first half of 2017 showed that from January to May 2017, the National Food and Drug Administration had randomly sampled 1,101 batches of infant milk powder samples, of which eight batches of products had unqualified problems and the failure rate was 0.73%.

From this, we can see that the rate of non-conformity in the first half of 2017 has obviously decreased both in the same period of last year and in the whole year of 2016.

In addition, the number of companies on the list and the number of regular customers in the black list are also decreasing.

The Law Weekend Weekend reporter found during the combing of the special infant and fetal inspections in 2016 that there were still many regular visitors in the spot-checking black list; of these, 15 companies listed on the list had a total of 9 companies that had been nationally Food and Drug Administration named, the proportion of up to 60%.

However, in the first half of 2017, this situation is already decreasing.

Statistics show that in the first half of 2017, 8 batches of unqualified products originated from 5 dairy companies, namely Xinjiang Shihezi Garden Dairy Co., Ltd. (2 batches failed) and Hunan Zhanhui Food Co., Ltd. (1 batch failed ), Heilongjiang Topcon Children's Dairy Co., Ltd. (3 batches of unqualified), Heilongjiang Farming Co., Ltd. Yingbo Huawei Dairy Co., Ltd. (1 batch unqualified), Hengxin Lejian (Xiamen) Biological Technology Co., Ltd. (1 batch failed) .

Of the five companies, only two companies had been named by the National Food and Drug Administration more than twice. In other words, Heilongjiang Land Reclamation Inverwalt Dairy Co., Ltd. had gone through spot checks for three consecutive years in 2014, 2015 and 2016; Hengxin Lejian (Xiamen) Biotechnology Co., Ltd. was listed on December 2016.

In addition, the special sampling project for infant formula for infants and young children is mainly divided into two categories, that is, whether it meets the national standards for food safety and whether it meets the standards for product packaging identification labels.

The results of the data show that most of the sampling samples in the first half of 2017 were not in conformity with the product packaging labeling standards; that is, out of the 8 batches of infant milk powders involved, only two batches did not meet national food safety standards, and the other six batches were Does not meet the product packaging labeling standards.

Bee Products, Alcohols: Sodium cyclamate, chloramphenicol

According to statistics for 2016, alcoholic beverages and health wines have not been extirpated, and cyclamate problems are looming. In the honey industry, chloramphenicol is difficult to eradicate.

Sodium cyclamate, the chemical name of which is sodium cyclamate, is a non-nutritive sweetener and has side effects such as carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and impaired renal function. Excessive cyclamate may harm the body's liver and nervous system and its ability to detoxify metabolism. Weak older people, pregnant women and children are more harmful. According to the provisions of relevant national food safety standards and liquor product standards, sweeteners are not permitted in liquor.

In 2002, the Ministry of Agriculture promulgated the “List of veterinary drugs and other compounds banned by food animals” Order No. 193, which stipulated that various drugs including chloramphenicol should be “banned” from being used on food animals.

According to the statistics, 47 wine companies were named by the State Food and Drug Administration in 2016. Among them, 11 are due to the illegal addition of cyclamate to the black list; in addition, the State Food and Drug Administration announced a total of 12 honeys in 2016. The company’s 14 batches of products were unqualified, of which 8 were from chloramphenicol.

So what happened in the first half of 2017?

According to statistics, in the first half of 2017, the State Food and Drug Administration had randomly sampled 970 batches of alcoholic samples. Six batches of 6 companies were unqualified and the rate of failure was 0.62%.

The six wine enterprises are Zhangzhou Jiupin Winery, Anhui Jinmanyuan Liquor Co., Ltd., Chongqing Jiangjin Winery (Group) Co., Ltd., Ningcheng Andaqing Wine Co., Ltd., and Inner Mongolia Temujin Wine Co., Ltd. Company, Changsha Liuyang River Wine Co., Ltd.

Among these, in addition to the three batches of alcoholic beverages, the detected alcohol content does not meet the national standards; in addition, the Liuyang River Red Classic (seven-year aging) cyanide produced by Changsha Liuyanghe Wine Co., Ltd. has a higher detection value than the standard of 33.5. Times; Neosweet, which was detected in Jinjiangjin wine produced by Chongqing Jiangjin Winery (Group) Co., Ltd., was not detected; saccharine was detected in pure wine produced by Anhui Jinmanyuan Wine Co., Ltd. (a decade old puree). .

In the bee product industry, statistical data showed that a total of 259 batches of bee product samples were sampled, and the unqualified batches were two batches with a failure rate of 0.77%. Of these, the value of the infiltrating yeast count detected by Wuhan Hunchun Royal Jelly Co., Ltd. was 7 times higher than the value of sirup honey; the nectar produced by Zhejiang Jiangshan Health Apiculture Co., Ltd. detected chloramphenicol.

From this, it can be seen that the illegal addition of sodium cyclamate in the alcoholic industry and the chloramphenicol stubborn disease in the bee product industry still exist; however, the frequency of problems is declining.

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