Often the point of takeaway, you use the take-away lunch box safe? High-temperature food directly into the fast food box, will not 'hot' out of 'poison'? This morning, the provincial quality supervision departments in Shandong province for the first time release disposable plastic tableware Quality status and consumer tips.
Disposable tableware are mostly plastic material, with heat resistance, plasticity, low cost, etc. At present, Shandong disposable tableware mainly polypropylene and polystyrene two non-toxic and tasteless materials.
Sun Xiaochen, an engineer from Shandong Province Quality Inspection Center Packaging Center, said: "We bought a total of 60 batches of samples from supermarkets and shops in the province. These samples mainly include plastic lunch boxes, drinking straws, disposable drinking cups and forks.
Inspectors will be sampling tableware, disposable plastic tableware through the experimental conditions to simulate the use of the environment, to detect such a tableware whether there are security risks.
Sun Xiaochen said: 'We simulated this real situation of food contact and conducted a one-time plastic tableware products, the total migration and plasticizer migration under the conditions of high temperature, acidity, oil and other conditions.
Experts, a small amount of plasticizers can be discharged through the body, but if the plasticizer directly into the body through the digestive system, perennial accumulation may cause disease.
Cheng Qianqian, director of nutrition department of Shandong Qianfoshan Hospital, told reporters: 'Plasticizers have an adverse effect on the endocrine and reproductive systems of our body and can easily lead to fetal malformations or other infant diseases.'
At present, there are 128 disposable plastic tableware manufacturers in Shandong Province, most of which are small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly in Weifang, Qingdao and Yantai, etc. Then, whether 60 batches of products detected plasticizers What?
Sun Xiaochen said that the migration results show that these 60 batches of products are not detected plasticizer migration, and the total migration test results also meet the relevant requirements.
Shandong first disposable plastic tableware consumer tips
It can be said that our table more and more secure.Of course, someone said, disposable tableware product categories hundreds, we consumers in the selection and use, what are the tips and precautions?
In recent years, the provincial quality supervision departments have stepped up supervision and checking of such products. In three years, a total of 178 batches of disposable plastic tableware were spot checked, with a pass rate of 94.44% in 2015 and a pass rate of 100 in 2014 and 2016 %, Product quality ranks the forefront of the country.
The disposable tableware variety, expert advice, selection can be through a look, two smell, to determine the initial product good or bad.
Sun Xiaochen said: 'The first is to see if the product has QS logo, then there is the appearance of our product, the color is uniform, whether it contains impurities, we suggest that we try to choose colorless and transparent products, and then open the package to smell, There is no pungent smell.
Once the disposable plastic tableware heat, prone to deformation, in extreme cases may result in scalds.
'Meal box than my hands, for example, this lightweight product, its limited load-bearing capacity, easy to deformation, so try not to over-consume the consumer in the use, especially in hot soup when hot dishes, to Be careful of its deformation leading to scald, and then one on the one-time products, we should pay attention to avoid duplication, to ensure product stability. 'Sun Xiaochen said.
In fact, some take-away less take some less disposable tableware, free time, cook for themselves and their family to make a meal, not only environmental protection, but also make the home a more warm.