February 16, 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission announced that it would disposable foam plastic dinnerware (hereinafter referred to as foam tableware) is deleted from the catalog out of class, and became effective on May 1, 2013. Since then, the once banned white pollution culprit in producing disabled after 14 years, and openly return to the market.
Today, almost a year ban foam tableware. After the lifting of the ban, how foam tableware manufacturer status quo? Foam tableware production license management NDRC mentioned in the lifting of the ban, industry access, recycling system construction, environmental protection and supervision of law enforcement work, whether already cashed? International Food Packaging Association survey found that foam tableware production and regulation are still many problems.
1 □ Status
Waste processing cutlery still widespread
In April last year, which is a month before the ban foam tableware, Beijing Times reporter had to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places several unannounced visits foam tableware business, and corporate waste plastics commonly used as a raw material, the production environment dirty and messy, etc. problem to do a report. What's changed is now nearly a year, production status foam tableware in the past?
Foam tableware industry has long been concerned International Food Packaging Association, recently across firms and markets foam tableware conducted some research. Dong Jinshi, president of the Association, told reporters yesterday, after the Spring Festival so far, the association in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian, Guangdong, Shanxi, Hebei and other places surveyed have a legitimate business license eighty seven foam tableware manufacturers. But the investigation into the situation is not optimistic, more than 90% of the surveyed companies are still using waste plastic as a raw material, some good material and waste mixed with use, and some full use of waste processing. Issues outstanding enterprises mainly in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces.
According to the terms of the International Food Packaging Association, the production of foam tableware should use food grade polystyrene resin, this material is white, odorless resin particles, but they are in Zhejiang investigation found that a company uses raw black resin particles, This black resin particles is generally used cartridge recycling of waste, scrap foam lunch boxes, damping block, insulation boards, advertisement boards crushing processing. Another factory in Zhejiang, they also found that the plant uses recycled plastic packaging pharmaceutical, cosmetic plastic packaging as a raw material.
2 □ Guaixiang
Substandard products have qualified raw materials
Strangely, the use of waste as a raw material for processing plastic foam tableware, testing its health indicators show Shique qualified. This waste oil is almost exactly the same as all qualified in accordance with edible detection index detection.
Dong Jinshi, told reporters that since last year, the association has been investigated on several occasions taken from above the factory black resin materials and finished foam tableware sent formal qualification testing organizations. The basic test results are: sensory resin samples were unqualified, but health indicators, but all qualified; sensory and health indicators foam lunch boxes samples were qualified.
Sense of resin samples were detected concept failed, not because of the color of their appearance in the national standards required by 'white particles', but they are all qualified health indicators, to produce the foam lunch boxes qualified health indicators, this strange It led to the phenomenon of foam tableware main cause confusion in the market - with the waste produced tableware health indicators also qualified this and melamine milk powder, cooking oil feedstock failed, but the indicators are qualified to detect a reason, said Dong Jinshi.
Conformity is not equal to the raw material qualified, qualified products are not equivalent to product safety. Lion Dong told reporters, according to their survey, before the ban, in fact, about one-third of China's enterprises fully use foam tableware qualified raw materials, which products and more export-oriented; Other companies either completely with waste production, either good material, mixed with scrap with. And after the lifting of the ban, the use of waste production companies have actually increased, because the use of waste products in the detection process is also qualified, but a lot cheaper than a good scrap material.
3 □ proposal
Law enforcement can not be putting the cart before
Reporters found that access to public information, China's current polystyrene food packaging hygiene standards clearly provides for the production of food containers, packaging materials sensory indicators polystyrene resin are: white particles, without odor and foreign objects. Since there is such a provision, under which law enforcement agencies can investigate those companies use waste.
But the situation we have learned is that most of the country's quality supervision departments in the investigation, only the finished dishes to the test results as a basis to see if the materials are not qualified. Said Dong Jinshi, in fact, this is a regulatory cart before the horse way to indulge the company's violations, that is regulated only start from the raw material source, only makes sense if substandard materials, they should direct determination of product failure, and waste oil detection of otherwise qualified, become a joke.
Reporters learned from the International Food Packaging Association, the Association proposed based on the above findings a recommendation on the use of disposable foam plastic tableware production and processing of waste plastics supervisory investigated and submit the proposal to the AQSIQ and the Bureau of Quality Supervision, Hebei, Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei and other 16 provinces. Feedback information from watching the local quality supervision departments are more concerned about this, and increased law enforcement, Chuzhou, Anhui Bureau of Quality Supervision seized recently on two foam tableware factory, Hebei Jinzhou Quality Supervision Bureau also recently on the local a foam tableware company's products were seized.
We want this action, proposals and urge relevant departments to develop as soon as possible, and improve related policies, regulations and standards foam tableware. Said Dong Jinshi, the regulators face, we can not because of policy standards and connivance of unscrupulous companies imperfect production of low-quality foam tableware, For example, law enforcement officers from time to production enterprises should conduct surprise checks; explicitly require the production of foam tableware workshop and storage warehouse must be used with other non-food products, workshops, warehouses separate foam tableware production workshop and storage warehouse shall appear non-food grade raw materials and products, etc..
■ Links
Banned and the ban foam tableware course
★ 1984 China produced the first wholesale foam tableware.
★ 1986 foam tableware started on the train.
★ 1991 Ministry of Railways began to study the white pollution caused by railway foam tableware.
★ 1995, May Railways total ban on the use of foam tableware train station, train.
★ 1999, January 2009 Country Economic and Trade Commission requires at the end of 2000 eliminated foam tableware in the country.
★ 2001, December 2009 Country Economic and Trade Commission, State Administration for Industry and other specific requirements of the country to strengthen the elimination of foam tableware supervision and inspection.
★ 2005, the National Development and Reform Commission in 2011, Guiding Catalogue of Industrial Structure Adjustment in the elimination of twice the foam tableware products included in the directory.
★ 2013, February, the Country Development and Reform Commission issued Decree 21, removed from the elimination of foam tableware products catalog, announced since May 1, 2013 ban on foam tableware. The move triggered circles questioned.
4 □ reporter survey
After last year issued the Decree 21, the NDRC on March 20 that year gives reason to ban foam tableware, and said authorities are stepping up production license management, industry access, recycling system construction, environmental protection and supervision law enforcement and other related aspects of the preparatory work to ensure the realization foam tableware entry adjustments smooth transition and implementation.
Contact reporter yesterday, the NDRC, the NDRC asked the above statement made last year to the current progress of the case, as of this writing, the NDRC did not respond aspects.
Produce
Did not implement the market access system
It is understood that during the foam tableware banned, China's non-foamed plastic food packaging market access system already used.
July 18, 2006, according to the AQSIQ Decision of the State Council on Further Strengthening food safety, the State Council issued in September 2004 about the spirit, officially launched the plastic food packaging, containers, tools and other products to markets into the system , from the quality and safety management responsibilities, corporate environments and workplace requirements, production resources, procurement quality control, process control, product quality testing and production safety aspects of the seven non-disposable foam plastic dinnerware business to regulate and manage , a one-time non-foamed plastic tableware product quality and business management have been greatly improved.
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September 2006, No. 133 document AQSIQ issued under - on the implementation of the market access system for food plastic packaging, containers, tools and other products of the announcement clearly provides that the company is involved with the national industrial policy can not apply for the production licenses, the products will continue to be included in the illicit production, foam dinnerware is such a product. After starting from January 1, 2008, plastic food packaging, containers, tools and other products manufacturing enterprises only get QS production license before they can engage in food-related products; their products before they can be used for food production and operation of enterprises , or they will be punished according to law.
Logically, foam tableware after the lift should also be included in the plastic food packaging, containers, tools within the range, so it should implement market access. In other words, from raw materials to start, the whole process to the various production processes should have the appropriate specifications. However, nearly a year after the lift foam tableware, our country is not on the production of foam tableware production enterprises access system, some companies have changed their production as openly surreptitiously production, and foam tableware companies source raw materials and quality, production technology, the environment and product quality etc has not been effective regulation and supervision, quality and health and safety foam tableware is difficult to be guaranteed not surprising.
GB
No specific foam tableware
After the lifting of the ban, as of now, the only relevant state departments for foam tableware has issued a notice too. Is the notification that the health standards foam tableware products perform.
July 16, 2013, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Business Administration, Food and Drug Administration regulation jointly issued on the disposable foam plastic dinnerware strengthen supervision and management of the notice (hereinafter referred to as Notice), a clear foam tableware legally used to hold food production enterprises in strict accordance with the requirements molded polystyrene food packaging hygiene standards (GB9689) and food containers, packaging materials, additives health standards (GB9685) and other requirements for production and products factory inspection, the establishment and preservation of inspection records.
From the above notice can be found after the lifting of the ban, law enforcement agencies require testing standards based foam tableware is both. Reporter inspection found that, GB9689 implemented in June 1989; GB 9685 is implemented in June 2009, announced that the implementation of the standard GB9685, was to prohibit the production and sale of foam tableware.
Reporters noted that the above two criteria are separately molded polystyrene for food packaging, and all the additives, not specifically for foam tableware. Among them, the GB9685, the provision of food containers, packaging materials allows the use of various additives required, which is not limited to fluorescent brighteners do. In this regard, said Dong Jinshi: no mention of optical brighteners, industrial talc, recycling waste, etc., that these are not used for production.
Health
Does not involve food safety risk
There are many food companies are currently using foam and other cooking utensils with hot oil containing foods, foam dinnerware in contact with the hot oil after food, cutlery substances will dissolve out great harm to the human body.
A foam tableware health indicators are qualified, there should be an indicator of n-hexane evaporation residue requirements. Minister of Quality Supervision, Ministry of International Food Packaging Association Duan Jing explained to reporters, hexane evaporation residue is an analog of the substance in food oil, such as peanut oil , soybean oil, after contact with the lunch box lunch boxes substance eluted from the evaporation residues with higher scores indicating more dissolved substances in lunch boxes, the greater the harm to the human body.
However, the reporter found that health standards (GB9689) did not involve hexane evaporation residue of the indicator. This leads to foam tableware dressed greasy food security risk. Duan Jing also said that in addition, the standard foam tableware physical, mechanical and other indicators are not limited to, such as performance, load performance, the performance drop, heat resistance, leakage and so on.
Without these detection indicators, a large number of non-performing companies use recycled waste produced tableware, according to the current national standard GB9689 are qualified to detect physical and chemical indicators, which also led to the quality supervision department can not punish the strange phenomenon. Duan Jing said, in the final analysis, or because of no specific national standards for foam tableware.
GB9689 just because the existing general for all raw materials polystyrene molded product, knives, forks, cups, etc., although foamed polystyrene food containers are processed from raw materials, but it does exist own unique features, like the same as flour than the same raw material, processed into frozen dumplings and noodles, after both were appropriate product standards, foam dinnerware should also develop specific national standard, in order to truly have a standard to follow, regulatory law .
Recover
From top to bottom were not introduced policies
Why then banned foam tableware, one of the important reasons is causing white pollution to the environment. After last year, the NDRC issued the Decree 21, face the doubts expressed, it gives one reason to ban the foam tableware can be: foam dinnerware can be recycled; Europe, America, Japan and other countries and regions have been producing Use foam tableware. Year nearly over, ready to work recycling system originally proposed by the NDRC, environmental protection and other aspects and how?
The situation of our investigation is that for the recycling system, the current from the local to the relevant government departments across the country did not come out any specific policy, but there is no place for the National foam tableware for recycling. Resources International Food Packaging Association Leader Hou Jian-feng told reporters, At present, China's garbage collection system is not perfect, especially in sorting foam tableware nobody wants the case to be sorted out from the waste of human and financial resources are spent great addition, hair foam tableware recovery still faces large volume, high cost of storage and transportation, oil and more difficult to clean, and a series of secondary pollution problem.
According to its introduction, although the use of foam tableware in Japan, but mainly used to make fresh bowl and tray. And the Japanese diet less oil, less leftovers, mostly law-abiding manufacturers of large enterprises, recycling system is also very advanced (without washing, no secondary pollution), so basically do not cause environmental pollution. The situation in China and Japan differ.
This has resulted in no recovery of crushed foam tableware can be disposed of with household waste landfill. Hou Jianfeng said Centennial biodegradable foam tableware, cutlery foam debris landfill disposal to make a lot of deposition, not only pollute the soil may also affect groundwater quality. And this material can not be burned, as this may cause cancer.
Mark
But marked flammable foam tableware
Last year when a reporter unannounced visits to investigate foam tableware business, to catch being processed foam tableware suddenly caught fire. This is because the material polystyrene foam tableware flammable. Said Dong Jinshi, thus saving on the foam tableware fire should be considered a problem, but in the product's packaging instructions should express.
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In addition, after the polystyrene foam dinnerware, larger size, low density, surface easily absorbed oil, oil resistant foam tableware therefore not high, and it is not dressed fatty foods. Dong Jinshi think, disposable foam Plastic cutlery can not be put into the microwave, heat can not be put into the steaming tray, not dressed stir-fries, soup and other hot foods, especially roadside stalls Mala Tang is not dressed with a disposable foam plastic dinnerware.
Therefore, Dong Jinshi suggested should use precautions express the foam tableware packaging, correctly guide the consumer to avoid the harm caused by improper use.
However, the reporter recently discovered in market research interviews, now on the market for disposable foam tableware, did not have any identification on the box, and some do not even have manufacturer information, and do not have a product manual within a product, the product from outside the box to the lined bags, lunch boxes and then to itself, except for a few products have model information, almost no identity.
Source: China news express update