â– Insufficient inspection time and lack of comprehensive testing in the academic field are the two innate fatal flaws of modern food additives. These “fast-fixing†chemicals in the laboratory are uncertain compared to traditional additives that have long been tested in human history. At the same time, the "color and fragrance" that is "improved" with chemical food additives is not the food itself, but an illusion that often hides the original inferior or even bad food, and has potential safety hazards. Regarding food additives (mainly chemical food additives), there is a lot of controversy. It is argued that the experimentally proven legal additives are harmful if used in excess. However, the author believes that this statement at least evades two congenital defects that are completely unrelated to "overdose". The first is that the time test is not enough. Whether an additive is harmful to the human body, laboratory data can only be a reference, far from enough to prove its safety. More importantly, long-term follow-up observations for decades or even generations. Although humans have used food additives for thousands of years, they have used synthetic chemical additives for more than 100 years. Large-scale use began in the 1950s (China was in the 1990s), only a few decades. The chronic hazards of chemical food additives to humans, including genotoxicity, often take a long time to become apparent. The second is the lack of comprehensive testing. At present, there are thousands of legal food additives in the world, and there are more than 2,000 kinds in China, most of which are synthetic chemicals. Each of us consumes dozens or even hundreds of additives every day. They are combined in the human body. How do they produce synergy and "antagonism"? Because there are too many combinations, and the process is extremely complicated, at the current level of technology, experiments cannot be performed first, and there is almost no experimental data in this regard. And a small number of small combinations of experiments have found that food additives have superimposed toxicity (according to Randall Fitzgerald's "Hundred Years of Lies: How Food and Drugs Damage Your Health" Chinese translation, Zengweiqing "Food is poisonous: hiding How to eat the most safe food additives? Chinese translation). Insufficient time testing and lack of comprehensive testing are the two innate fatal flaws of modern food additives. These “flash†chemicals in the laboratory are uncertain compared to traditional additives that have long been tested in human history. Because of this, even if it is used for "preservation and preservation", it must be subject to extremely strict restrictions. It can be used without use and can be used less. But unfortunately, China's food additives define "synthetic or natural substances, including nutritional supplements, added to foods to improve food quality and color, aroma, taste, and the need for preservation, preservation, and processing." "Quality and color scent" is not only regarded as an important content, but even placed before the "preservation and preservation process", at least objectively indicating that the former is more important. There should be a clear understanding of this "improvement". The author believes that "improving color and fragrance" is a fake in the name of "improvement." The pursuit of "color and fragrance" is the nature of human diet, and the color and fragrance reflect the intrinsic quality of food. However, the "color and fragrance" that is "improved" with chemical food additives is not the food itself, but an illusion that often hides the original inferior or even bad food, and there are hidden dangers. According to industry professionals, “China's food industry has raised tens of thousands of companies that make flavors. Most foods rely on spices, and even animal feeds rely on spices†(according to “The Charm of High Technologyâ€). Therefore, in my opinion, "improving food quality and color and fragrance" should not be the meaning of food additives. At present, the world economic development model is gestating major changes, and the transition to an ecological circular economy is the trend of the times. The call for “returning to nature and pursuing health†in the international community is getting higher and higher, and the research and development of food additives has begun to shift to natural products. China also proposes to “encourage and support the development of natural pigments, plant extracts, natural preservatives and antioxidants, Functional Food Ingredients and other industriesâ€, and proposes that the technical transformation of food additives and ingredients industry focuses on “natural food additives, natural flavorsâ€. New technologies for the development and production of new food additives." Obviously, the development and production of food additives should take the path of ecological nature. |
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