Taiwan Datong's black oil incident to the island Enterprises smell oil pale, and in a few days ago, this food safety crisis has fought to instant noodles market. November 13, Taiwan's Business Today reported that the Taiwan market sales of various brands of instant noodles seasoning packet detection of heavy metals. Yesterday, Master Kong, unity responded that the company instant noodle products are in line with national standards, there is no security risk.
Variety of instant noodles seasoning packet detection of heavy metals
According to Taiwan's This Week reported the magazine in the market to buy two popular peacekeeping force noodles sauce cans and Master spicy beef noodles, sending SGS laboratory in Taipei and found the food, instant noodles oil as much as lead, arsenic, copper, mercury and other heavy metals. Subsequently, the weekly buy again unification Rouzao and 10 canned sauces, as well as Korea Shim and a variety of 40 packs of instant noodles censorship.
Test report said that in the submission of the instant noodles oil package, Ve Wong juice beef noodle soup oil contains trace amounts of copper, Itsuki chive noodles oil contains arsenic, copper, Master spicy beef noodles Korea Shim, unity old altar pickled beef noodles and Vedan Vivek A chicken noodle soup ribs are being tested arsenic, lead, copper three elements, while in Taiwan, selling Asher Hakka lath in addition to the above-mentioned three kinds of heavy metal, but has also been found to mercury.
In addition, the unified old altar pickled beef noodles, sauce packet highest concentrations of copper and lead, respectively 1.73ppm (parts per million) and 0.222ppm; Korea Shim arsenic topped 0.532ppm. The report also said that Taiwan does not develop due to the current heavy metal content of instant noodles oil standard, temporarily unable to determine whether the excess.
Companies deny someone's unsafe products
News came to light in the mainland market is widely Marketing Master, unified company issued a statement yesterday, have denied the existence of security risks of their products, and that are in line with national standards. Currently, the company produced its instant noodle products are still in Shanghai supermarket normal sales. Reporters yesterday in Cao Bang Lu a supermarket, the price of 3.6 yuan a unified old altar pickled beef noodles, and the price of 4.6 yuan, Master spicy beef noodles is still on sale, and the remaining supermarket sales are unaffected.
Municipal Food Safety Office said yesterday that the oil in the calendar year for instant noodles conducted sampling, excessive levels of heavy metals were not detected over.
Unified company on its mainland production company old altar pickled beef noodle quality and safety to make a statement, said: Our instant noodles products are in accordance with the national standard instant health standards GB17400, instant noodles LS / T 3211 for production, finished products are following the above standard test after passing the factory. And for alleged excessive seasoning packet containing heavy metals, and further said: My company sauce packet of instant noodles in the heavy metal content are in line with GB2762 national food safety standards of contaminants in foods requirement.
Tingyi company statement sent to reporters, saying trace metals naturally present in the environment, potentially through water, soil, air, etc., produced during the growth in plants and animals, consumers do not need too much worry. In addition, the state of instant noodles have GB17400-20032 has also developed health standards, and related products are required to follow this standard for production and regular inspection, consumers can rest assured purchase.
Also involved in this matter Shim Chinese companies – Nongshim Shanghai Food Co., the person in charge said that the sales in Taiwan Shim products are all imported from South Korea, while the mainland supermarkets sell Shim are by the company Shanghai and Shenyang factory production, are in line with national standards.
Seasoning packet over the years the city was not detected heavy metals exceeded
Shanghai Food Safety Office said yesterday that Shanghai already has the ability to detect correlation, but over the years the instant detection of oil were not found excessive levels of heavy metals in the case. Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau released this year noodle quality supervision and inspection results show that a total sample of agricultural heart, Nissin and three batches of products, the results are in line with national standards.
If not eat foods containing heavy metals, then it can not eat all the food, food science Ph.D., Chinese Nutrition Society Fan Zhihong yesterday in an interview, said that as long as the instrument to be accurate, there will always detect an iota of pollution, so foods that contain a particular heavy metal does not mean excessive heavy metals, there is no need to panic if not exceeded.
Taiwan authorities, the Ministry of Health and Welfare Food and Drug Administration, said Choi Suk Ching, head of food, edible oil component rarely, according to inspection results, weight 60 kg adult daily intake of 917 packets of instant noodles to be (oil packs, sauces ) will exceed the allowable amount of copper intake; For lead, the daily required intake 96 packets of instant noodles (oil packs, sauces), will exceed international safety tolerated dose of lead.
However, some industry insiders pointed out that despite the presence of trace heavy metals in the environment naturally, but companies still need to purchase raw materials from the front, on the strict control testing, as much as possible to avoid the accumulation of heavy metals in food to ensure food safety.
Source: Learn@China