Food Additives Standards Committee agrees to write off flour whiteners

Feng Ping, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, revealed the day before yesterday that the General Office of the Ministry of Health responded to the “recommendation of a new national standard for wheat flour as soon as possible” and stated that the National Food Additives Standards Committee had reviewed and approved cancellation of benzoyl peroxide.

Additive Standards Committee agrees to write off

Benzoyl peroxide is commonly known as "flour brightener" and there has been a dispute between waste and waste. As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Feng Ping has repeatedly submitted a proposal to remove the use of benzoyl peroxide as a whitening agent from flour.

Feng Ping said at a seminar on food additives held the day before yesterday that in July, the General Office of the Ministry of Health stated in his reply to the proposal of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference that the new national standard for wheat flour should be introduced as soon as possible. The principle of safety and reliability is necessary, and the National Food Additives Standards Committee has reviewed and approved cancellation of benzoyl peroxide. According to the Ministry of Health, the verification of the cancellation of benzoyl peroxide and its aftercare measures has been initiated accordingly.

Ministry of Health initiates cancellation of argument

According to statistics, as early as December 2008, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health had stated at a regular press conference that the Ministry of Health had received the “Discontinued Flour Treatment Agent - Benzoyl Peroxide” from the National Grain Administration. The application materials will be submitted to the National Food Additives Standards Committee for discussion and a decision on whether to ban it will be made.

Feng Ping said that the Ministry of Health also stated in its reply that it is necessary to share measures with relevant departments, mainly including the following: First, to guide the production enterprises of benzoyl peroxide flour processing agents to switch production as soon as possible, and to accelerate the support for technological transformation policies of enterprises; Public opinion guidance program, doubts and doubts; third is to do a good job of flour processing agents and flour production enterprises supervision and inspection work.

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Excessive use affects health

In the “National Standard for the Use of Food Additives” that the Ministry of Health had just concluded to solicit opinions, benzoyl peroxide was still used as a flour additive, causing concern.

There has been controversy over whether or not benzoyl peroxide should be added to the flour. The “main ban” believes that benzoyl peroxide will destroy the nutritional structure of flour, and overuse will cause harm to the human body.

The opposition to the prohibition said that, according to the experiment, benzoyl peroxide in the scope of the use of food additives, will not cause food safety problems of flour, if there is no safety problem, it should not be written off from the list of national additives.