Academician Sun Baoguo: No food safety incident caused by legal use

"So far, China's influential food safety incidents have not been caused by the legal use of food additives." "Food additives have become the scapegoat for food safety incidents." "Food safety issues are ultimately people's problems." At the launching ceremony of Beijing Food Safety Promotion Week today, Sun Baoguo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a well-known food additive expert in China, is the “famous name” of food additives.

The melamine-tainted tainted milk powder and the clenbuterol-added lean ham added to the epidemic of food safety incidents caused a great deal of attention from all parties. Some of the original strange chemical terms are known to people. Foods are linked and become household names. Food additives are even "became" synonymous with drugs.

“Products made through factories generally have food additives,” explains Sun Baoguo. Food additives can improve food quality, color, aroma, and taste, but must be used legally. "For example, the previous zero-day soy sauce was long-haired and unsanitary for a long time. However, after the addition of preservatives, the problem did not exist." "But illegal additives are not food additives." Melamine is an additive but cement and Additives for plastics and coatings are not food additives.

“Food safety is now a 'lei', causing public panic. However, in many cases China’s food safety issues have been misled and exaggerated in the dissemination process.” Sun Baoguo said that some companies are also misleading consumers, such as The type of beverage packaging states: "No fragrance plus no coloring and no preservatives". In fact, these are all allowed to be added. This kind of product contains additives on the ingredient list, causing consumer confusion. .

"Don't scare our consumers anymore." Sun Baoguo said that the issue of food safety has affected the country's economic development. Every time the food safety issue is exposed, it is destroying the mainland brands, and the people are quickly turned to foreign brands.

Sun Baoguo believes that China's efforts to strengthen the supervision of food additives should be a variety of products, the use of two tubes, the use of three tubes.