Beijing News (Reporter Liu Huan) On January 9, the Beijing News reporter learned that the Guangdong Provincial Administration for Market Regulation recently organized random inspections of 1,614 batches of samples of 8 types of food, including grain processed products and soy products, and detected 20 batches of unqualified samples. One batch of sweet potato vermicelli was found to contain the banned substance aluminum (calculated as AL).
The "Shanghai Jiaolong" sweet potato vermicelli (248 grams bag, 2023 1 1) produced by Hunan Longwang Food *** was detected with aluminum (in terms of AL) 582mg kg, and the "GB 2713-2015 National Food Safety Standard for Starch Products" stipulates that aluminum shall not be detected in starch products. According to public information, Hunan Longwang Food was established in 2013, and its business scope includes the production and sales of starch and starch products, and the main sales brands are "Shanghai Jiaolong" and "Huaju".
It is understood that aluminum exists in large quantities in nature, and there are no reports suggesting that aluminum ingested by ordinary people through food will cause acute poisoning, and the main toxicity of aluminum is neurotoxicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, and there is no carcinogenicity. The use of aluminum-containing food additives according to standards will not cause health hazards, but long-term excessive intake of aluminum may affect children's mental development. The reason for the excessive amount of aluminum residue may be that the production and operation enterprises use aluminum-containing additives in the production process in order to increase the taste of the product.
Edited by Zhu Fenglan.
Proofread by Liu Baoqing.