Taiwan food "plasticizer incident" is over. Yesterday, the culprit of Lai Junjie, the boss of Taiwan’s “Extensive Company”, stated that not only beverages and health foods, but also bakery products such as breads and cakes were commonly blended with clouding agents. What is clouding agent? What is plasticizer? What are the dangers of black heart clouding agent? Yesterday, Yang Xiaobing, a researcher at the Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, answered questions in an interview with reporters and proposed suggestions for random inspections of Taiwan's food chain stores in the mainland area.

Clouding agent is completely different from plasticizer

"Clouding agents and plasticizers are completely different substances." Yang Xiaobing said that clouding agents, also known as turbidity agents, opacifiers, and opacifiers, refer to flavor oils that will have a certain aroma intensity. The form of fine particles emulsifies a relatively stable oil-in-water system formed by the aqueous phase consisting of gum arabic, modified starch and water. The common raw materials are gum arabic, emulsifier, palm oil or sunflower oil. The most important raw materials are palm oil and other vegetable oils and vegetable fats.

"This is mainly a food additive used in Taiwan." Yang Xiaobing said that in mainland China, there is no name for "clouding agent". This additive is equivalent to the mainland's "thickener" and "stabilizer". A mixture of food additives. It was originally an approved food additive.

The plasticizer is a chemical substance commonly used in plastic materials containing di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). It is recognized as a fourth toxic chemical substance in Taiwan and is not an edible substance. Can not be used for food production and processing.

Pearl milk tea or use clouding agent

The “plasticizer incident” in Taiwan means that the unscrupulous manufacturer “Geng Shen Company” has shied away from the column when manufacturing clouding agents and replaced it with plasticizers that cost 5 times more.

"In addition to the low cost, the thickening effect and stabilizing effect of plasticizers are better than those of vegetable oils." Yang Xiaobing said that adding plasticizers to food additives is similar to industrial alcohol blending, Sudan red, and melamine events. , are extremely bad fake behavior and serious food safety incidents.

He also taught consumers to make judgments. Under normal circumstances, clear and transparent beverages do not use clouding agents, and it is possible to use thickeners in foods and beverages, such as pearl milk tea, ginger, and fruit juice.