Food Additives Allow Addition But Not To "Trouble"

When humans enter industrial production, it is almost impossible for us to obtain food products that do not contain additive ingredients. Appropriate use of additives in the food processing production process is intended to improve processing performance and improve food quality. In order to contribute to food preservation, improve the sensory properties of foods, maintain or increase the nutritional value of foods, etc., a considerable proportion of foods have been used in the production of various types of additives. However, the use of some food additives in real life is not motivated by the aforementioned motives. Instead, it is profit-driven, using existing flaws and lags in standards, inadequate detection methods, and incomplete coverage, and using food additives as a profit-making enterprise. One means even leads to the abuse of non-edible additives.

The emergence of the above situation is mainly due to two aspects. First, due to the lack of technical reserves and innovation capabilities of food production companies and highly homogenized product mix, the pressure on the industry to compete in low-level markets has been exacerbated. Some companies seek to improve the content of nutrients in food testing, not relying on technological R&D and innovation capabilities. Instead, they try to use the illusion of mental deficiency and regulatory loopholes, and illegally add some non-edible substances and abuse food additives. Somehow, some companies use excessive use of food additives as a means to reduce production costs, obtain higher profits, and use false advertising to market to the market only products that do not really have nutritional value but merely change their face.

Second, because the relevant laws, regulations and standards systems are still not complete and indicators are lagging behind, the regulatory agencies have encountered difficulties in their implementation. For the relevant departments, how to combine the economic and social development level of our country and make timely amendments to the backward industry standards in accordance with the times should be put on the agenda as soon as possible. In addition, the release and dissemination of food quality and safety information needs to be further regulated in order to improve the effectiveness of public opinion supervision and social participation.

In view of this, to ensure that the use of additives in the food production field is safe, effective, and reasonable, and to avoid all kinds of “stirring” strangeness caused by additives, it is necessary to strictly implement the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China and the State Council issued in June this year. The decision on strengthening food safety work, improving supporting regulations and normative documents, and starting from the aspects of regulating food production and operation order, strengthening law enforcement forces, and technical support, will constantly raise the level of food safety supervision.

First of all, companies must fulfill their main responsibility for food safety in accordance with the law, establish a sense of integrity, build a reputation brand, cultivate a culture of integrity, and strengthen safety safeguard measures for new resources, foods, food additives, and new varieties of food-related products, and improve the intensification of the food industry. At the level of scale, we will step up efforts in food technology and technological transformation to improve food safety support capabilities. Secondly, adhere to the principles of openness, transparency, scientific rigorousness, and wide participation, further improve the procedures for the revision of safety standards for foods, food additives, and food-related products, and improve and perfect the national food safety standards system. All regions should also formulate local standards for food safety in a timely manner in accordance with regulatory needs, encourage enterprises to formulate food safety corporate standards that are stricter than national standards, and effectively implement standards implementation. Third, strengthen the supervision of food safety capabilities and increase support for weak areas and key links in inspection and testing capabilities. All localities should also rationally equip and reinforce food safety supervisory personnel according to local conditions, strengthen grassroots regulatory enforcement forces, strengthen the equipment construction of food safety supervision and law enforcement teams, and focus on increasing on-site equipment such as rapid detection and investigation and evidence collection, and improve supervision and enforcement. ability. Fourth, speed up the construction of a fully functional food safety information platform, achieve information sharing and resource sharing among various regions and departments, strengthen information collection, analysis, and regular release of food safety information to the community. At the same time, we must actively promote and gradually establish a food inspection and inspection system that integrates coordination and resource sharing, apply modern information technology, innovate and supervise law enforcement methods, and improve the scientific and informational level of food safety supervision.