Foreword: Food is essential to us. As a major public health issue, food safety has become the focus of global attention. As a person closely related to food, food packaging safety is also the main body of food safety. Regarding the safety of food packaging, most people will be ignored in daily life. Now let us take you to understand the safety risks of food packaging products?
1. Harmful substances in food packaging will migrate to the food
Food packaging refers to all materials or containers in direct or indirect contact with food, including food containers, utensils and flexible packaging. In addition to the protective effect of food packaging, harmful substances in its packaging materials will also migrate to food under certain conditions. Once the amount of migration exceeds the limit, it will have a major impact on food safety.
Therefore, food packaging safety is an important part of food safety. At present, my country's food packaging safety situation is not optimistic. On the one hand, it is necessary to improve relevant laws and regulations, and on the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen prevention in terms of safety risk analysis, prevention, supervision and management, and application of new technologies.
2. Food packaging materials affect food safety
Foods with potential safety hazards are harmful to the human body, such as “poisonous capsules”, “bisphenol A”, white wine superplasticizers, plastic plasticizers exceeding standards, plastic wraps causing cancer, disposable paper tableware fluorescent substances exceeding standards, and other foods reported by the media Packaging safety issues have exposed many existing problems in food packaging safety.
In addition to the human factors of some unscrupulous merchants, another part of these problems is that the food packaging itself contains harmful substances. These harmful substances migrate into the food after direct or indirect contact with the food, causing food safety problems. Now we will learn more about the hazards of different packaging materials to the human body.
3. Carry out food packaging product quality and safety analysis
It is of great significance to solve the current situation of food packaging safety
Compared with developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan, my country's food packaging safety policies and regulations still lag far behind. It is necessary to strengthen food packaging product safety risk monitoring and risk analysis, as well as the supervision of food packaging manufacturers, improve food packaging safety mechanisms, and gradually narrow the gap with the international community.
It is of great significance to carry out product safety risk analysis in the food packaging industry. By collecting regional, group, and basic data and related information, we can fully understand the risk factors that affect product quality in the production and circulation field, find out the hidden rules of the industry, provide the government with decision-making basis and technical consultation, and provide science for risk assessment and standard revision On the basis, realize early detection, early warning and early disposal of product quality risks.
4. National general standards for the implementation of my country's food packaging contact materials and products
GB 4806.1-2016 "National Food Safety Standard, General Safety Requirements for Food Contact Materials and Products"
GB9685-2016 "National Food Safety Standard, Standard for the Use of Additives for Food Contact Materials and Products"
GB 31603-2015 "National Food Safety Standard, General Hygienic Code for the Production of Food Contact Materials and Products"
GB 4806.2～11-2016
GB/T 10004-2008 "Plastic composite film, bag dry composite, extrusion composite for packaging"
GB/T18006.1-2009 "General Technical Requirements for Plastic Disposable Tableware"
GB/T 27590-2011 "Paper Cup"
5. Factors that cause the quality risk of food packaging products
The key items of food packaging product quality and safety testing include sensory indicators, evaporation residues, potassium permanganate consumption, heavy metals (calculated as lead), decolorization test, solvent residues (benzene solvents, total), phthalates Class migration, fluorescent substances and microbial detection, etc.
Some manufacturing companies still have deficiencies in raw material procurement verification and production process monitoring; when relevant departments formulate supervision and spot checks or risk monitoring plans for certified companies, there are few monitoring and inspection items, and they cannot fully obtain product safety information of the company; relevant departments and companies Lack of understanding of substances that threaten food safety and failure to correctly analyze the potential sources of these substances.
my country's food packaging market access system and related standards are not strict and perfect, and there are still hidden food packaging safety hazards. At present, my country only implements a market access system for plastic packaging products and paper packaging products. Speed up the establishment of a market access system for metal packaging products, glass packaging products, and ceramic packaging products. Establish a comprehensive food packaging production safety supervision system to prevent and control hidden food safety hazards.
