Moon Cake Tori Has Hidden Dangers &Nbsp; Some Products Contain Plasticizers.

Feifei and Zhen Zhen are a pair of cousins.

In fact, Fei Fei, Jane and glory, Guang Ying chose the moon cake when they chose the brand and taste, but ignored an important problem: this little moon cake support.

Do not belittle this little plastic (10895, -45.00, -0.41%) box, which contains University questions. Some moon cakes are likely to contain plasticizers.

Plasticizer?

This frightens the two sisters who choose to buy moon cakes.

How many moon cakes in the market are contained plasticizers?

What kind of moon cake Tori contains plasticizers?

The reporter gave the task to Feifei, Zhenzhen and glory, Guang Ying, so that they could choose moon cakes everywhere, and first considered whether the moon cake holder was safe and reliable.

In a moment, the two sisters chose fifteen kinds of moon cakes, and each of them bought three pieces. Among them, there were old moon cakes and some mooncakes made by small factories.

Later, reporters brought their moon cakes to Beijing station of Yongfeng physical and chemical analysis and testing center.

The inspectors first took the moon cake out and put the moon cake on the code.

These cakes are pparent, milky white, dark yellow, light yellow and even metallic.

They look almost the same quality, but are they not suitable for holding moon cakes?

Let's first check the materials of these moon cakes.

What materials do these moon cakes look for?

Inspector: first, take the moon cake out, then cut it with scissors, wipe the sample and then put it on the infrared spectrometer. Then we can get the spectral information through the scanning of the total reflection. Then we can analyze the concrete material through this spectrum.

30 minutes later, the test results were fresh.

Inspector: We used infrared spectrometer to analyze the material of 15 moon cakes. 9 samples were polystyrene (PS), 5 samples were polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and one sample was polypropylene.

In the 15 types of moon cakes, there are 1 PP materials, 9 PS materials, and 5 PVC materials.

So, what is the difference between the three materials of PP, PS and PVC?

Are they all suitable for holding moon cakes?

Dong Jinshi, vice president of the International Food Packaging Association, told reporters that qualified PP and PS plastic packaging can be used to hold moon cakes. However, PVC can only pack ordinary foods and can not be used as moon cakes.

Why is that?

Dong Jinshi: like PVC, it generally does not allow food containing fat, because it contains plasticizers, moon cakes are absolutely high fat content of food, if it is used to contact with plasticizer packaging materials, plasticizer can easily migrate to the top of moon cakes, people will virtually eat these plasticizers.

Dong Jingshi told us that in order to increase flexibility, PVC plastic products need to add a plasticizer, which is about 30%.

Plasticizers are easily dissolved into fats.

Therefore, PP and PS packaging are usually not required to add plasticizers.

Then, do four consumers choose whether there is plasticizer in the moon cake holder?

What are their contents?

Two the content of plasticizer in all kinds of moon cakes was tested. Next, the inspectors chose 11 moon cakes, and cut them into small pieces. After weighing them, they put them into containers. Then, through some methods, the plasticizers that might be contained in the moon cakes were extracted.

Inspector: this experiment is the determination of o-benzoic acid two in food packaging materials. Through this experiment, we can test whether many food packaging materials contain phthalate two formic acid, because it belongs to a plasticizer.

Two days later, the test results came out.

Inspectors: according to the national standard method, samples of 11 cakes were tested, and plasticizer residues were determined. Among them, 10 samples were detected to contain DEHP (Plasticizer) components, and one sample did not detect DEHP (Plasticizer) ingredients.

This result is shocking. The 11 kinds of moon cakes that have been tested are only one PS moon cake without plasticizer. The rest of the 10 kinds of moon cakes are supported by PP, PS or PVC moon cakes. All of them contain plasticizers DEHP.

According to the hygienic standard for additives used in food containers and packaging materials issued by the Ministry of health and the National Standard Committee in 2008, plasticizer like DEHP can only be used for non fat food packaging.

Moon cake is a relatively fat oily food. Obviously, it is not possible to use DEHP containing plasticizer.

What is even more shocking is that according to the national standard, the largest residue of plasticizer DEHP in food packaging materials is 1.5 mg per kilogram, and three of the moon cakes in this test have reached 1227 milligrams per kilogram, 1043 milligrams per kilogram and 880 milligrams per kilogram.

Since PP, PS packaging is not needed to add plasticizer in the production process, then this test of PP, PS material moon cake holder, how can we find plasticizer?

Dong Jinshi: the first is that the enterprises used the plasticizer illegally. They did not need to add any more, and the state did not allow it to add. Then you added it. This is the illegal use of the enterprise. Second, it is possible to use the waste plastic, because some sources of waste plastics are not very clear. Some of the old plastic products are installed in the industrial products. Sometimes it will also join the plasticizer in order to change the performance of the industrial products. After recycling, it may also mix with the food grade (plastics).