The melamine legal limit determines 151 illegal additives for further exposure

The traceability of melamine is not only for the dairy industry but also for the entire food industry. The melamine limit value for infant formulas is 1 mg/kg, and all other foods should not exceed 2.5 mg/kg. The Ministry of Health and other five ministries have jointly announced the first time that melamine has been used in all foods. And just last weekend, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and other departments reaffirmed the illegal addition of 151 kinds of food and feed to the list.

After many food safety issues such as melamine milk powder, dyeing steamed bread, and clenbuterol, which constantly challenged people’s “anti-drug” capabilities, a table-keeping “rectification movement” with the theme of combating the illegal addition of food was strongly opened up in policy-intensive additions. .

The government strictly restricted and severely punished many agricultural and food processing companies, which were faced with the problem of rising testing costs, which also led to a phase-out of production capacity and deportation of inferior companies.

Strictly punishing severely punishing multi-sectoral remediation of illegal additions to crack down on illegally adding non-edible substances, abuse of food additives, and use of illicit drugs in feeds and aquaculture in severely cracking down on food production and operations. Recently, the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture and other departments released the basis for the batch release. On the website, a list of 151 kinds of illegally added foods and feeds was again published on the website.

The list of 151 foods and feeds illegally added includes 47 kinds of "non-edible substances illegally added" in food, 22 kinds of "abuse food additives" and 82 kinds of "prohibition in feed, animal drinking water and List of drugs and substances used in aquaculture of livestock and poultry." In response, the Ministry of Agriculture reiterated that livestock, aquaculture enterprises, farmer professional cooperative economic organizations, bases, and farms (households) must be strictly followed.

Melamine dairy crisis, the future remediation strategy is the food industry chain. A few days ago, the Ministry of Health and other five ministries and committees jointly announced that the melamine limit value for infant formulas should be 1 mg/kg, and all other foods should not exceed 2.5 mg/kg. This is the first time that China has announced a limit for melamine in all foods, and the higher prices will be banned. Since then, melamine has set clear standards for the value of all foods. It is no longer limited to milk and dairy products, and it is clear that the limit of melamine in infant formula is 1 mg/kg, which is no longer based on formula milk, liquid milk, Formulations for different product categories such as milk powder are formulated separately and are more stringent than the old ones.

The intensive policy increase shows the government’s determination to crack down on illegally adding security to surrounding dining tables. Food safety issues have been repeated in the past two years. According to Xinhuanet on April 17th, Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out that in recent years, "poison milk powder", "lean meat essence", "drainage oil", "dyeing steamed bread" and other incidents have occurred in succession. The vicious food safety incident is enough to show how serious the lack of integrity and moral decline has come.

The three major pollutions haven't been faced with how this time the security of the table security remains to be effective. Industry insiders told reporters that the problems that food safety is currently exposed are just the tip of the iceberg.

An industry source stated that, for example, melamine, which had a limited standard value, was found in fish feed. The US Food and Drug Administration recently released the situation of refusal to import food in February 2011. In February, a total of 56 foods from China were rejected, among which 4 foods and 1 fish feed detected melamine. In the domestic market, as cattle feed contains melamine and milk is detected to contain melamine, dairy farmers have therefore reported the feed mill to court.

The food safety of the Chinese people's table has frequently entered the minefield and the culprit is not just melamine.

The Ministry of Health and other five ministries and committees jointly disclosed illegal listings of 151 kinds of foods and feeds, covering feed, medication, and food addition. However, Fan Fuhao, head of quality of the Quality Supervision, Inspection and Test Center (Guangzhou) of the Ministry of Agriculture, sadly stated that the harms caused by the three major pollutions of antibiotics exceeding standard, heavy metal pollution and disinfectants have not been given due attention at all.

According to its introduction, in the field of animal drug use, the concept of "additive health care" widely recommended by the industry is a wrong concept. Drug manufacturers continue to recommend the concept of “adding health care”, and blindly adding drugs can easily lead to heavy metal pollution and excessive antibiotics. For this, Fan Fu was opposed to it for many years. To his frustration, “The expert system has a problem. The farmers do not know, but few experts are willing to stand up and tell the truth. There are nearly 1800 veterinary drug companies in China. These drugs go. In addition, disinfectants are also harmful to the environment.” A pig farm official also said that it is not uncommon for pigs to use tranquilizers. As for additives, there are many types, and some of them are regulated by law. There are many alternatives that are still hard to defend.

The problems that need to be guarded in animal feeds are excessive levels of substances such as heavy metals, antibiotics, and hormones. According to Fan Fu's introduction, adding melamine to the feed can increase the protein content. In order to reduce feed costs, unscrupulous manufacturers will evade detection and increase illegally. "These things should not be legally added to moral principles. Clenbuterol is a hormone. In aquatic products, some people do not eat jaundice and are worried about hormones."

The sharp increase in inspection costs and the credit crisis that promotes food shuffling for food production has caused suspicions among the public about consumer behavior. However, for companies, the impact of detection capabilities and detection costs has become more significant, and even triggered a new round of capacity cleaning.

Dairy industry cleaning is the most prominent area in the near future. On November 1, 2010, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued regulations requiring relevant dairy companies to resubmit applications for production licenses before December 31, 2010. They must be equipped with appropriate testing equipment and perform self-inspection on 64 indicators such as melamine and food additives. . The State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine recently issued a re-examination result for the dairy industry rectification and production licenses for dairy products. Among the 1031 dairy products companies and 145 infant formula milk powder companies, 107 companies stopped production and rectification, and 426 companies did not pass the audit. .

It is reported that most of the small-scale enterprises were eliminated because they did not meet the standards on the hardware equipment required by the country, or they could not invest millions of dollars in technical reforms and gave up on production licenses. According to a person from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, due to the rigid requirements of a set of testing equipment such as melamine, veterinary drug residues, and antibiotics, an investment of 3 million to 4 million yuan is required. Small businesses can only withdraw without money, or they can only make beverages in transition.

This time, Shuanghui experienced the “Clean Crushing” storm and had previously held a special supplier meeting. The chairman of Shuanghui Group, Wan Long, put forward several requirements for pig procurement suppliers and raw material suppliers, including the supply of live pigs and raw materials. Safe and harmless, sign a pledge of quality and safety before supply. Do not purchase pigs with “lean meat extract”, and do not sell pigs with “lean meat extract”. Suppliers who provide non-food materials that are banned from poisonous or harmful substances must be safe. bear legal responsibility. Bandung said that due to the change of "Clenbuterol" to head-to-head inspection, it is expected to increase the testing cost of "Clenbuterol" by more than 3 billion yuan throughout the year.

A manager of the company, Wang Xing Henan Microbiology Technology Engineering Co., Ltd., said that since the clenbuterol incident, the sales volume of the company's test card for clenbuterol testing has increased significantly.

"In terms of raising pigs, companies should have a testing program to ensure that the pig products are qualified, but pork has always been unbranded." The pig owner said that many farms are cost-oriented, There is no policy that farms must be equipped with testing capabilities. However, it is foreseeable that in the future, companies will inevitably reduce the cost of detection in order to reduce risks. Many small-scale farms, however, are extremely likely to close their doors because of this.

As for whether the testing equipment is necessary for every plant, Fan Fuhao has different opinions. “For example, when consumers buy vegetables, do they still need a home detector? Supervision and testing should be something the government should do and should not be passed on to companies.” In its opinion, this not only increases the number of companies Cost, or a manifestation of government inaction. “Enterprises buying feed and buying live pigs are, according to reason, introduced. They should be qualified products. Upstream products are qualified. Enterprises themselves are strictly controlled and they can guarantee that they will produce qualified products. The current situation is that the feeds or products purchased by enterprises are It cannot be guaranteed that it must be qualified. This responsibility is not in the enterprise but in the supervisory department."

Voice experts exposing food safety suffer from industry resentment “Food safety is a big problem. It is not a small business that violates regulations. Large companies also have problems.” Fan Fuhao stated that there are problems in the industry system, raw material supply, government management, and experts. Scientific research and industry service systems all have problems. They should all be completely rectified and they must be exposed. Fan Fuhao, who has been brave enough to unravel, has already been under pressure recently. Fan Fuhao thinks that Premier Wen Jiabao's defiance of “the lack of integrity and the decline of morality” has come up to the point where profit-driven driving has led to problems in the industry.

At the moment, the country is making great efforts to rectify food safety and has started to defend the table. Fan Fuhao said that the entire government agency needs to clarify the division of labor and avoid the situation of supervision disconnecting and pushing responsibility. "However, the law is lagging behind. We must also talk about issues from the perspective of morality and conscience. What makes people feel sad is that the level of civilization is declining. Some people resent me for revealing short, and why the industry can't uncover it, it's all about interest.