Sun Baoguo: Illegal addition of two alternatives to abuse of additives are undesirable

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Sun Baoguo, Vice President of Beijing Technology and Business University.

China Economic Net News, September 14 (Reporter Zhang Xinyu) "Illegal addition refers to the use of additives beyond the scope, like dyeing steamed bread, lemon yellow is a food additive that the country allows, but it is not allowed to use in steamed bread. If it is used, it is illegal. Addition, and abuse refers to excessive use. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Vice President of Beijing Technology and Business University, Sun Baoguo, said last week that the "Science and Technology Changing Lives - Scientists and Media" face-to-face event. Click to enter the topic

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Food additives are a topic of concern to everyone. Everyone has different opinions on food additives. Many people have very bad opinions. Many people have misunderstandings. Including just a few questions answered. For some issues, especially those involving food additives, experts and people have different opinions on whether or not food safety. For example, just mentioned dyeing steamed bread, of course, today's answer is a food safety incident, of course, there are some experts feel that it is not a food safety incident, which is the problem from which point of view, dyeing steamed bread does not affect people's health, this is from this angle.

From another angle, why dyeing steamed bread is a food safety incident, mainly because of the use of lemon yellow in dyeing steamed buns, which is a state-approved food additive, but it is not allowed to use in steamed buns. In itself, violations are illegal. Of course, this also reflects the very important problem that exists in our country is the illegal addition and abuse of the law, and the opinions of consumers on this aspect are also very large. The so-called abuse, one is over-range use, such as dyeing steamed bread. The other one is overuse.

In traditional foods, food additives also play a very important role. People in the food industry often say that there is no modern food industry without food additives. I do not agree, but there is nothing wrong with this. Because it is easy to lead a wrong direction in this way, everyone thinks that the modern food industry created the food industry. This is actually a misunderstanding. Let me give you an example. For example, the bittern of tofu was invented by our country. It has a history of more than 2,500 years. The brine is a food additive. There are also gimmicks. Some people say that steamed buns and steamed stuffed buns were invented by Zhuge Liang. Up to now, it has been more than 1,800 years. In addition to Beijing's use of old noodles, there are still yeast and alkaline surfaces in the process of steamed buns. When you fry the fritters and fry pancakes, you must use it, these are food additives. There are many types of foods that contain food additives in life.

I once said that the history of human food additives is as old as the history of human civilization. Not only is the Chinese civilization the same as the ancient Egyptian civilization, but also the Western ancient civilization. To a certain extent, food additives are a product of the development of human society and the development of scientific and technological civilization. This was the case in the past, and now it is. Metrics are: One is the variety of foods, and now more and more species are being studied. Second, there are many kinds of food additives, and the grades are getting higher and higher. The manufacturing technology of food additives is also getting higher and higher. In the end, it is reflected in the increasing quality of modern foods, which are mainly manifested in two aspects: First, the safety of foods can not be guaranteed without food additives; secondly, the quality of foods, including color and fragrance, can be inseparable from food. additive.

Now we have also overlooked a problem. Food nutrition is also attributed to food additives such as Vitamin C, which is only a nutrient and not a food additive. For example, as a preservative, the role of carbon dioxide in beer is a preservative. If we look at the standard of our country's food additives, we will look at carbon dioxide as a preservative. Many people do not think that carbon dioxide is a preservative. There are many examples.

Our country attaches great importance to food safety issues. Our consumers have many misunderstandings about food additives. In this case, we should do two things: On the one hand, we must do better food safety. On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen popular science propaganda on food safety so that everyone can truly understand food additives and reduce everyone’s panic. This is conducive to the development of the food industry.