2014 Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Day, CCTV's "Weekly Quality Report" exposes gelatin factories to acquire leather scraps to be processed into medicinal gelatin and even edible gelatin. Then this behavior in the end what harm to the human body? Let's take a look at the difference between edible gelatin, pharmaceutical gelatin, industrial gelatin.
Edible gelatin
Gelatin is an animal skin, bone, tendon in the collagen, after partial hydrolysis, purification and protein products, is slightly yellow to yellowish flakes or particles, like the size of a grain of rice, about 6-8 mesh, belongs to the natural polymer polypeptide polymers. Animals such as pigs, cows, donkeys, horses, chickens, fish bones and skin can be utilized, and now the most commonly used in large-scale production is the skin and bone of pigs and cows. Edible gelatine is divided into three categories, ABC, category A is the international advanced level, category B is the international general level, and category C is qualified products. These three types of gelatin are qualified products and are widely used in food and medicine.
Medicinal gelatine
Medicinal gelatine products are also produced using raw materials such as cowhide, cow bone, pig skin and pig bone. China's requirements in the selection of raw materials for edible gelatin are very strict, according to the national quality standards on medicinal gelatin, raw material requirements must be selected fresh, after strict quarantine, without any chemical treatment of animal bones or raw skin, can not be selected from the infected area, there are infectious diseases of animal raw materials, the water used in the processing process should also meet the standard of domestic drinking water.
Industrial gelatin
The main source of industrial gelatin raw materials and leather hydrolysate is almost the same, by the worn leather, leather box, leather shoes and other edges, after chemical technology, hydrolyzed out of the leather in the formation of protein.
Industrial gelatine as food, pharmaceutical gelatine danger
In the 3.15 evening party exposure of the garbage gelatine piles, has been rotting, and flowing blue water, these are tanneries after chrome salt tanning rejected down the leather leather scraps processed by the production of glue, contains a large amount of chromium, there is a serious potential hazard to human health, can only be used as an industrial glue. But the glue factory will be these leather leather waste after a series of chemicals, it becomes medicinal gelatin and even edible gelatin sales.
1. Chromium
Because leather leather waste will generally be tanned by chromium salt, and thus will show blue, so called blue alum skin, blue alum skin glue in the hexavalent chromium if the human body for a long time absorption, will cause inflammation of mucous membranes, ulcers, skin allergies, eczema, nasal septum ulcers, wheezing bronchitis and so on. The slightly water-soluble salt in hexavalent chromium has carcinogenic effect.
2. Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide in the regular production of edible and medicinal named should be said to be almost non-existent. And in the report, in order to achieve preservation or bleaching and other purposes, the illegal use of hydrogen peroxide, the same is harmful to the human body, it can make the body in the protein chronic oxidation, cohesion. Long-term higher intake can cause premature aging, which is manifested in brittleness of blood vessels, osteoporosis of bones, and so on. So it should be strictly controlled.
3. Microorganisms and preservatives
In the process of gelatin production, it is inevitable that microbial contamination, gelatin factory will add some preservatives, fungicides, if a large number of additions, it will be very harmful to the human body, such as genotoxicity and reproductive toxicity, and even carcinogenic.
4. Other heavy metals
Treated by chemicals in the leather waste, not only the existence of chromium salt hazards, there are also other heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium hazards, will be caused by the human nervous system, the immune system, cardiovascular system toxicity, affecting human health.
5. Other hidden dangers
Additionally, the use of tannery waste, may come from sick and dead animals, not only increases the risk of human and animal **** disease, while the treatment of veterinary drugs used in the leather waste residue will also pose a threat to human health. In addition leather waste may also be treated with lime and sodium sulfide, lime is a strong alkali, sodium sulfide in the human body will release hydrogen sulfide, cause human poisoning.
Reporters in the investigation, the person in charge of trafficking in tannery waste, said the tannery waste was originally toxic and harmful industrial waste, it is because of the gelatin factory large number of acquisitions, and now it has become doubled in value. These toxic and harmful industrial waste is made into medicinal gelatin and even used to make candy, jelly and other edible gelatin, unknowingly jeopardizing the health of consumers. We can not help but ask, these illegal use of tannery waste production of gelatin gelatin factory is not invisible? Are those gelatin product quality standards for consumers? Why these toxic industrial gelatin can be in broad daylight, transformed into medicinal, edible gelatin, unimpeded sales, and ultimately into medicine, yogurt, fruit juice soft candy, QQ candy, jelly, and ultimately eaten into the belly by consumers? We consumers have known that these foods and medicines were once made from industrial waste that bugs and flies avoided.
Editor's note: The author works for Beijing Zhiyunda Technology Co. This is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, production and sales of food safety rapid detection products and supporting software. If you are interested, click here to take a look.
Share this: Author: Baidu know netizen Zhang Yuping (China Agricultural University, PhD in agronomy)
Consumer Rights Protection Day 2014, CCTV's "Weekly Quality Report" exposed gelatin factories to buy leather waste processed into medicinal gelatin and even edible gelatin behavior. Then this behavior in the end what harm to the human body? Let's take a look at the difference between edible gelatin, pharmaceutical gelatin, industrial gelatin.
Edible gelatin
Gelatin is an animal skin, bone, tendon in the collagen, after partial hydrolysis, purification and protein products, is slightly yellow to yellowish flakes or particles, like the size of a grain of rice, about 6-8 mesh, belongs to the natural polymer polypeptide polymers. Animals such as pigs, cows, donkeys, horses, chickens, fish bones and skin can be utilized, and now the most commonly used in large-scale production is the skin and bone of pigs and cows. Edible gelatine is divided into three categories, ABC, category A is the international advanced level, category B is the international general level, and category C is qualified products. These three types of gelatin are qualified products and are widely used in food and medicine.
Medicinal gelatine
Medicinal gelatine products are also produced using raw materials such as cowhide, cow bone, pig skin and pig bone. China's requirements in the selection of raw materials for edible gelatin are very strict, according to the national quality standards on medicinal gelatin, raw material requirements must be selected fresh, after strict quarantine, without any chemical treatment of animal bones or raw skin, can not be selected from the infected area, there are infectious diseases of animal raw materials, the water used in the processing process should also meet the standard of domestic drinking water.
Industrial gelatin
The main source of industrial gelatin raw materials and leather hydrolysate is almost the same, by the worn leather, leather box, leather shoes and other edges, after chemical technology, hydrolyzed out of the leather in the formation of protein.
Industrial gelatine as food, pharmaceutical gelatine danger
In the 3.15 evening party exposure of the garbage gelatine piles, has been rotting, and flowing blue water, these are tanneries after chrome salt tanning rejected down the leather leather scraps processed by the production of glue, contains a large amount of chromium, there is a serious potential hazard to human health, can only be used as an industrial glue. But the glue factory will be these leather leather waste after a series of chemicals, it becomes a medicinal gelatin and even edible gelatin sales.
1. Chromium
Because leather leather waste will generally be tanned by chromium salt, and thus will show blue, so called blue alum skin, blue alum skin glue in the hexavalent chromium if the human body for a long time absorption, will cause inflammation of mucous membranes, ulcers, skin allergies, eczema, nasal septum ulcers, wheezing bronchitis and so on. The slightly water-soluble salt in hexavalent chromium has carcinogenic effect.
2. Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide in the regular production of edible and medicinal named should be said to be almost non-existent. And in the report, in order to achieve preservation or bleaching and other purposes, the illegal use of hydrogen peroxide, the same is harmful to the human body, it can make the body in the protein chronic oxidation, cohesion. Long-term higher intake can cause premature aging, which is manifested in brittleness of blood vessels, osteoporosis of bones, and so on. So it should be strictly controlled.
3. Microorganisms and preservatives
In the process of gelatin production, it is inevitable that microbial contamination, the glue factory will add some preservatives, fungicides, if a large number of additions, it will be very harmful to the human body, such as genotoxicity and reproductive toxicity, and even carcinogenic.
4. Other heavy metals
Treated by chemicals in the leather waste, not only the existence of chromium salt hazards, there are also other heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium hazards, will be caused by the human nervous system, the immune system, cardiovascular system toxicity, affecting human health.
5. Other hidden dangers
Additionally, the use of tannery waste, may come from sick and dead animals, not only increases the risk of human and animal **** disease, while the treatment of veterinary drugs used in the leather waste residue will also pose a threat to human health. In addition leather waste may also be treated with lime and sodium sulfide, lime is a strong alkali, sodium sulfide in the human body will release hydrogen sulfide, cause human poisoning.
Reporters in the investigation, the person in charge of trafficking in tannery waste, said the tannery waste was originally toxic and harmful industrial waste, it is because of the gelatin factory large number of acquisitions, and now it has become doubled in value. These toxic and harmful industrial waste is made into medicinal gelatin and even used to make candy, jelly and other edible gelatin, unknowingly jeopardizing the health of consumers. We can not help but ask, these illegal use of tannery waste production of gelatin gelatin factory is not invisible? Are those gelatin product quality standards for consumers? Why these toxic industrial gelatin can be in broad daylight, transformed into medicinal, edible gelatin, unimpeded sales, and ultimately into medicine, yogurt, fruit juice soft candy, QQ candy, jelly, and ultimately eaten into the belly by consumers? We consumers have known that these foods and medicines were once made from industrial waste that bugs and flies avoided.
Editor's note: The author works for Beijing Zhiyunda Technology Co. This is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, production and sales of food safety rapid detection products and supporting software. If you are interested, click here to take a look.
Share this: Author: Baidu know netizen Zhang Yuping (China Agricultural University, PhD in agronomy)
Consumer Rights Protection Day 2014, CCTV's "Weekly Quality Report" exposed gelatin factories to buy leather waste processed into medicinal gelatin and even edible gelatin behavior. Then this behavior in the end what harm to the human body? Let's take a look at the difference between edible gelatin, pharmaceutical gelatin, industrial gelatin.
Edible gelatin
Gelatin is an animal skin, bone, tendon in the collagen, after partial hydrolysis, purification and protein products, is slightly yellow to yellowish flakes or particles, like the size of a grain of rice, about 6-8 mesh, belongs to the natural polymer polypeptide polymers. Animals such as pigs, cows, donkeys, horses, chickens, fish bones and skin can be utilized, and now the most commonly used in large-scale production is the skin and bone of pigs and cows. Edible gelatine is divided into three categories, ABC, category A is the international advanced level, category B is the international general level, and category C is qualified products. These three types of gelatin are qualified products and are widely used in food and medicine.
Medicinal gelatine
Medicinal gelatine products are also produced using raw materials such as cowhide, cow bone, pig skin and pig bone. China's requirements in the selection of raw materials for edible gelatin are very strict, according to the national quality standards on medicinal gelatin, raw material requirements must be selected fresh, after strict quarantine, without any chemical treatment of animal bones or raw skin, can not be selected from the infected area, there are infectious diseases of animal raw materials, the water used in the processing process should also meet the standard of domestic drinking water.
Industrial gelatin
The main source of industrial gelatin raw materials and leather hydrolysate is almost the same, by the worn leather, leather box, leather shoes and other edges, after chemical technology, hydrolyzed out of the leather in the formation of protein.
Industrial gelatine as food, pharmaceutical gelatine danger
In the 3.15 evening party exposure of the garbage gelatine piles, has been rotting, and flowing blue water, these are tanneries after chrome salt tanning rejected down the leather leather scraps processed by the production of glue, contains a large amount of chromium, there is a serious potential hazard to human health, can only be used as an industrial glue. But the glue factory will be these leather leather waste after a series of chemicals, it becomes a medicinal gelatin and even edible gelatin sales.
1. Chromium
Because leather leather waste will generally be tanned by chromium salt, and thus will show blue, so called blue alum skin, blue alum skin glue in the hexavalent chromium if the human body for a long time absorption, will cause inflammation of mucous membranes, ulcers, skin allergies, eczema, nasal septum ulcers, wheezing bronchitis and so on. The slightly water-soluble salt in hexavalent chromium has carcinogenic effect.
2. Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide in the regular production of edible and medicinal named should be said to be almost non-existent. And in the report, in order to achieve preservation or bleaching and other purposes, the illegal use of hydrogen peroxide, the same is harmful to the human body, it can make the body in the protein chronic oxidation, cohesion. Long-term higher intake can cause premature aging, which is manifested in brittleness of blood vessels, osteoporosis of bones, and so on. So it should be strictly controlled.
3. Microorganisms and preservatives
In the process of gelatin production, it is inevitable that microbial contamination, gelatin factory will add some preservatives, fungicides, if a large number of additions, it will be very harmful to the human body, such as genotoxicity and reproductive toxicity, and even carcinogenic.
4. Other heavy metals
Treated by chemicals in the leather waste, not only the existence of chromium salt hazards, there are also other heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium hazards, will be caused by the human nervous system, the immune system, cardiovascular system toxicity, affecting human health.
5. Other hidden dangers
Additionally, the use of tannery waste, may come from sick and dead animals, not only increases the risk of human and animal **** disease, while the treatment of veterinary drugs used in the leather waste residue will also pose a threat to human health. In addition leather waste may also be treated with lime and sodium sulfide, lime is a strong alkali, sodium sulfide in the human body will release hydrogen sulfide, cause human poisoning.
Reporters in the investigation, the person in charge of trafficking in tannery waste, said the tannery waste was originally toxic and harmful industrial waste, it is because of the gelatin factory large number of acquisitions, and now it has become doubled in value. These toxic and hazardous industrial waste is made into medicinal gelatine and even edible gelatine used in the production of candy, jelly, etc., unknowingly jeopardizing the health of consumers. We can not help but ask, these illegal use of tannery waste production of gelatin gelatin factory is not invisible? Are those gelatin product quality standards for consumers? Why these toxic industrial gelatin can be in broad daylight, transformed into medicinal, edible gelatin, unimpeded sales, and ultimately into medicine, yogurt, fruit juice soft candy, QQ candy, jelly, and ultimately eaten by consumers into the belly? We consumers have known that these foods and medicines were once made from industrial waste that bugs and flies avoided.
Editor's note: The author works for Beijing Zhiyunda Technology Co. This is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, production and sales of food safety rapid detection products and supporting software. If you are interested, click here to take a look.
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