International Food Packaging Association: Excessive heavy metal content in some plastic cutlery

According to Voice of China’s “Yangguang News” report, the International Food Packaging Association held a press conference today to announce to the public three investigation reports on food plastic wrap, plastic disposable knives, forks, spoons, straws, and stainless steel catering products. Details to connect CCTV reporter Fei Lei.

Moderator: What problems have been found in the investigation report? Please brief us on this.

Reporter: It is almost 315. Every year before 315, the International Food Packaging Association will conduct a survey. The content of this survey is also relatively large. I will briefly give you a brief explanation.

First of all, the market survey of plastic cutlery and straws was introduced. The International Food Packaging Association reported that the investigations of five supermarket chains and six large-scale wholesale markets in the Beijing area found that the plastics disposable cutlery products currently sold on the market have been identified. The difference is very large, and some don't even identify it. In the product plastic products, the use of color pigments is very large, the color is relatively heavy, the cheaper the price, the more unlabeled and the heavy-colored these are the three non-manufactured products. This situation is very serious. At present, the detection of heavy metals in these products has exceeded the standard, and the color is very bright and the industrial raw materials are very serious.

In the plastic lunch box, it was found that there was a marked improvement over last year. The survey found that 12 stalls in 5 wholesale markets sold batches of 24 products, of which 21 batches were fully qualified, and the pass rate accounted for 90%. Better than 60% last year. However, the sales of disposable foam plastic tableware have still been found. These are hidden phenomena or exist.

In terms of cling film, the report pointed out that the sales of large supermarkets are very standardized, and the use of plastic wraps for PE materials, but there are still a large number of PVC in the wholesale market containing clustered ethylene products that are sold, but also in cooked food packaging Also found that there is a phenomenon of PVC material packaging.