Saturday 28 May 2011

Carcinogenic plasticizers 5 storm in Taiwan to expand the shelves of food to be


Taipei on the 28th AP) food containing carcinogenic DEHP plasticizers increase the storm, the Taiwan Department of Health, Food and Drug Authority, according to Chau said Hong, Yu confirmed with 119 manufacturing extension agent with DEHP composition of raw materials and products from the clouds, may be affected by contaminated product 371.
Department of Health announced that Taiwan's 10,001 thousand home access, and even vending machines, effective immediately, agents who use the cloud from sports drinks, fruit drinks, tea drinks, fruit puree and jam classes, and glue, tablets, powder, etc. 5 categories of food, required to provide proof of non-DEHP can be sell inspection. To retailers devastated, estimated losses of at least 100 million yuan (about 1 million ringgit), that the drink only mineral water to the shelves to sell fear.
Director of Health Wen-Ta Chiu said that the clouds from the use of sports drinks and other agents of the 5 categories, the shelf full of food, vendors should provide proof of non-DEHP, or from the inspection next Tuesday, and offenders who use punishment.
Add the world's first see the face of DEHP food scandal, Wen-Ta Chiu yesterday means the industry practices, "incredible", "bad", to fruit juice yesterday seized over 40,000 kilograms, more than 980,000 bottles of beverages, probiotic powder packets 260,000 kg . Ministry of Economic Affairs Minister Wong heavy ball means that the inventory may be contaminated products exported to more than 40 countries, totaling about NT 300 million 46 million yuan (about 3 thousand 4 million ringgit).
Reunification of the four big supermarket, Carrefour, etc. 3 large supermarkets, Tintin, healthy life, such as chain pharmacies indicated that they would meet the government requirements. But privately complained again and again, a path the industry that some juice on the shelf without refrigeration acid out, the loss is difficult to estimate, and the private inspection companies are not spending money but also experience.
Inspection company difficult to digest
Department of Health is certified by the public trust with the DEHP inspection company is only 12; one inspector said, the laboratory operates 24 hours a holiday round, still can not digest commission case.
An anonymous food industry estimates that losses do not include beverage sector has reached over 100 million yuan (about 1 more than ten million ringgit), health food annual output of about 300 billion yuan (about 30 billion ringgit), but this product is not directly affected many relatively small. Complaints against the industry, the Department of Health Food and Drug Administration Bureau director Kang Chiu Chau said: "The industry as a consumer health check, a security certificate in order to save the consumer confidence!"
Passion fruit juice, tea shop chain in question fall
Following the chain of tea fresh tea was found to DEHP plasticizer, the tea store, "Sunrise tea too" has also been found to be mixed with passion fruit juice concentrate, plasticizer, the industry the problem of emergency goods from shelves. Department of Health requires that all tea shop chain to be made within 3 days of certificate of inspection, or shall cease to be sold; industry estimates that in Taiwan, with 5000 estimates the store, stop selling fear of loss of 10 million yuan to 1 day (100 million ringgit).
Taiwan joined the Association of the Secretary-General cum Hongya chain, said age and health requirements of industry self-inspection unit, for failure to join the night market stalls and small drink shop drink probably a greater impact, because "many small shops may not know is where the raw materials into production."
Taiwan has 75 chain stores sunrise tea tea too, passion fruit juice was found to containing plasticizer agent from the clouds. Department of Health said that the industry has recovered 133.9 kg passion fruit juice; industry said it had stopped selling a hundred Hong smoothies, Q, and a hundred million Hong Hong fresh 3 green tea drinks, performance dropped 2 to 3 hundred and fourteen percent.
Igarashi initiative for examination
Department of Health also requires hand drinks tea chain industry, to be made within 3 days from the clouds agent certificate of inspection, it shall be discontinued. There are 161 stores in Taiwan in fresh tea industry says it has to stop selling strawberry smoothies, strawberry milk tea drinks in 11 models, performance dropped 2 percent, a variety of raw materials has been sent to SGS (SGS company) test, but SGS number to be tested too much, not sure if in 3 days to get inspection reports.
Another chain of tea Igarashi said this week has concentrated fruit juice, fruit juice powder raw material inspection, the results were out that will be posted in front of the store. Orange workshop, said raw materials are used for fresh fruits and vegetables, from the cloud completely useless to the agent, plasticizing agent.
Taipei drinking ice over a thousand businesses have two home yesterday to the Health Inspection Wing Hong Street shopping district, etc., a total of 21 items testing, including ice cream, smoothie shop past the mango, passion fruit concentrate fruit puree, mango Yongkang, 15, a hundred Hong concentrated fruit pulp, mango king taro, strawberry juice concentrate, whether the inspection will be sent containing plasticizers. Health Department Deputy Director of Food and Drug Administration Chiu instrument, if the industry is a source of raw materials such as Yu Shen industry, will require the shelves immediately, the source is not clear who, the council will initiate testing.
Itabashi prosecutors seized 325 kilograms deducted from the search cloud vendors agent
Itabashi prosecution in conjunction with the Health Department found that the new Taipei City Bingham spices soil chemical companies, the suspect agent is also mixed with clouds from the plasticizer used to add food products, the laboratory mice with reproductive harm plasticizer DINP, Prosecutors have interviewed the couple surnamed Chen raw materials plant, the son of 3 people, seized 325 kilograms of illegal good modulation from the clouds agents, shipping records and books, this will trace the upstream and downstream manufacturers.
This is the second fragrance manufactured Yu Shen from the cloud of toxic agent, another major discovery. Bingham out of the prosecutors to buy a chemical plant in Taipei, plasticizer, and then deployed into the clouds agent for downstream food manufacturers, Itabashi Prosecutors Office last night, head, surnamed Chen as a violation of the "Food Sanitation Management Law," the defendant.
Less toxic DINP
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, director of Clinical Toxicology Linjie Liang said plasticizers have a dozen of which are two of DEHP and DINP, DINP less toxic than DEHP is neither a human cancer-causing substances, but in animal experiments in male mouse reproductive organs will affect the development, reproductive toxicity in animals, but whether or reproductive toxicity to humans, at present no clear study confirmed.
Children to drink 3 bottles per week reduced the risk by 10 times the testis
National Institutes of Health Foundation released plasticizer DEHP on human health risk assessment, if an adult to drink a bottle of 350ml per week plasticizer DEHP containing beverages does not increase health risks, but if the issue a week or more to drink 3 bottles of drinks, testicular atrophy will increase the risk of genital abnormalities 1 to 2 times the risk of children after intake of 10 times more adults.
Taiwan Premier Wu Kun Yu Zhi AXA this event should be the maximum size of the human history of a plasticizer contamination distressing.
Kun-Yu Wu and public health experts on Friday held a press conference detailing the toxicity of DEHP, and that a search of the literature, this should be the largest in the history of mankind a plasticizer contamination.
DEHP may interfere with the reproductive system
He said, DEHP may interfere with the reproductive system, causing testicular atrophy; As for the relationship with cancer, he confirmed that DEHP may cause animal liver, but what the humans are no studies of cancer; his analysis, to talk about human beings may The resulting cancer may be related to liver cancer, leukemia, testicular cancer than related. Children fear led to genital hypoplasia, thyroid dysfunction.
Manufacturers add agents for sales since the cloud phase and taste better
Department of Health announced that Taiwan first 5 categories, the shelf cloud with agents from food, regardless of whether the recovery was added to our future, experts believe that this will help to enable manufacturers to make more close to the flavor of future products, because of calcium, vitamins do not agent to be added from the clouds, the efficacy of nutritional supplements can be achieved by the large number of shelves, for examination after the incident, the food industry should reduce unnecessary to add such a product.
Why calcium and other tablets from the health food will use the cloud agent? Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Professor Ling Yongjian said that some companies manufacture calcium, tablets etc., in its composition is still in the liquid state, "even as the combination of all additives" have used the agent from the clouds, so when the raw materials to condense into solid solution , made out one finished product, its taste would be better to sell phase.
From the cloud agent can speed up the rate of manufacturing finished products
Ling Yongjian means that the clouds additive agent is legitimate, but also accelerate the speed of its manufacturing to the finished product will help companies save money, increase profits, so the increasingly widespread use.
Department of Health, Food and Drug Administration that food group leader Cai Shuzhen tablets, capsules and other agents can increase the clouds to add texture, but no extra points on the nutritional effect. Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, director of Clinical Toxicology Linjie Liang pointed out that fruit juices, sports drinks, jam and other agents added with the clouds, is a thick sense of the finished product, will sell good, but the shelves by this massive event, it should be reduce the widespread use of industry case agent from the cloud.

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