Be alert! disposable chopsticks are not health

Press 6 days from Jiangsu Province food and Drug Administration was informed that, in the recent launch of unqualified disposable chopsticks special operations, total sampling disposable chopsticks sample 1122, illegal business acts 8, destruction of unqualified disposable chopsticks 1.8 more than double.

Inspection revealed that the use of disposable chopsticks is not necessarily better than ordinary chopsticks health.

Jiangsu provincial health authority director Li Yanping said, disposable chopsticks are the catering service food safety one of the key risks, and is also the focus of the work of supervision and sampling.

It is understood that the regular manufacturers disposable chopsticks are used raw materials better wood texture, without special processing. While some small workshop in order to reduce costs, the general use of poor-quality wood, to give these chopsticks "whitening", often using sulfur fumigation for bleaching. If you frequently use the chopsticks, human body due to excessive intake of sulphur dioxide arising shall not apply, or even cause disease.

Li Yanping said, even if the disposable chopsticks in the production process meets the requirements of the packaging, transportation and storage process, still face the possibility of secondary pollution, so its safe performance and no better than the ordinary high disinfectant chopsticks.

Long ago, the Department of Commerce, etc. 7 departments jointly issued the "restaurant and hotel in reducing the use of disposable chopsticks circular requires strengthening of disposable chopsticks around production, circulation and recycling sectors. Concerned experts said, regardless of the angle from the health of or from the point of view of thrift resources, it is recommended that consumers use sterile normal chopsticks.

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