Sea tao, daigou milk powder is risky! Pick milk powder for your child, be sure to see this information!

Sea Tao milk powder chaos

Reporter Of this newspaper, Yan Sheng

Recently, the internationally renowned milk powder brand Abbott has once again been on the hot search because of the "bacteria gate" incident. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that Abbott's milk powder may contain Cronobacteria and Salmonella, causing infections in 4 infants.

"The baby is eating this milk powder, how to test for infection?"

"What should I do if the milk powder I purchased belongs to the problem batch?"

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Is there any way to avoid the harm of substandard milk powder?

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Milk powder, as a food closely related to infants and young children, has always been a sensitive topic, and once an accident occurs, milk powder is a big thing. The milk powder of the company involved caused children to be infected with Cronobacterium and Salmonella carries a high health risk.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the four babies all consumed milk powder produced at Abbott's Sturges, Michigan factory. It is understood that the mortality rate caused by diseases caused by Cronobacteria can reach 40% to 50%, causing irreversible health risks. Different types of Salmonella can cause typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, fever, abdominal pain and so on.

After verification by the Customs Administration, the problematic milk powder was not exported to China through general trade, but entered the hands of mainland consumers through sea shopping or purchasing on behalf of others. In fact, there have been interpretations about Haitao, and the health risks are very large.

First, COVID-19 is still endemic worldwide. In this regard, Wu Zunyou, chief expert of epidemiology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, once reminded that Haitao packages also have the risk of virus contamination and are easy to be infected by the new crown virus, so under the epidemic situation, the purchase of Haitao must be cautious.

Second, haitao is easy to buy fake and shoddy products. Dairy analyst Song Liang once said in an interview with the media that from the perspective of channel characteristics, cross-border purchase products from the source to the terminal circulation are not transparent enough, and there is a lack of effective legal supervision, so counterfeit and shoddy products have prevailed in cross-border channels in the past two years.

Third, there is a nutritional imbalance in Haitao milk powder. A column of CCTV once tested the minerals of 19 kinds of Haitao milk powder, and the unqualified rate of the samples reached 42.1%. The National Food Quality and Safety Supervision and Inspection Center found in the test of the 19 kinds of Haitao milk powder sent for inspection that many milk powders not only did not meet China's standards in mineral content, but also the test results of their vitamin content were not optimistic, and the unqualified rate of vitamins tested in samples was 15.8%.

In addition, Haitao milk powder is difficult to ensure the safety of goods during transportation, which may cause milk powder to burst. Its after-sales service is also difficult to guarantee, if there is a problem with Haitao milk powder, it is very difficult to return and exchange goods, and it is difficult to protect rights.

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The General Administration of Customs recently issued an announcement reminding consumers to "temporarily do not purchase through any channels" and "immediately suspend the consumption" of related infant and toddler products of Abbott. In the face of a variety of infant formula milk powders on the market, the Xi'an Municipal Market Supervision Bureau reminds that when purchasing, it is necessary to see whether the product packaging labels are complete. Whether it is domestic infant formula milk powder or imported infant formula milk powder, the product label should be printed on the surface of the outer packaging of the product. Consumers should not purchase or consume products that are unlabeled, labeled or labeled with incomplete information, unclear content, concealed, reprinted or tampered with dates.

Infant formula milk powder product label information includes: product name, ingredient list, nutrition ingredient list, specification (net content), registration number, product standard code, production date, shelf life, storage conditions and other information.

The label of the milk powder should also indicate:

The most ideal food for infants aged 0-6 months is breast milk, which can be consumed when breast milk is insufficient or without breast milk;

Larger infant formulas should be labeled "supplementary foods must be added";

If the source of raw milk or raw milk powder is marked, information such as the specific place of origin or country of origin shall be truthfully marked.

In addition, it also depends on the product formula registration certificate number. Infant formula milk powder product formula needs to be registered and approved by the State Administration of Market Supervision, and the "Infant Formula Milk Powder Product Formula Registration Certificate" is issued, and the certificate number is: National Food Injection Character YP + 4 digit year number + 4 digit sequence number.

Also, look at the product name. Generally, it is divided into 3 categories according to the applicable month of age:

Infant formula (milk) powder. It is suitable for normal infants aged 0-6 months, and its energy and nutrient content can meet the normal needs of infants at this stage, marked as "1 stage".

Suitable for infants aged 6-12 months, it is marked as "2 segments".

Suitable for children aged 12-36 months, it is marked as "3 paragraphs".

The market supervision department reminds that it is not advisable to give babies to eat infant formula for special medical purposes without authorization, and should be given to babies for special medical purposes under the guidance of a doctor or clinical nutritionist.

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Milk powder that has not passed the registration and is not a national bank

Breast milk is the best food for infants and young children, and the gap between formula and milk is still far away. Li Zhenghong, deputy director of the Department of Pediatrics of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, once introduced that the early 1,000 days of life, that is, the 1,000 days from the mother's pregnancy to the child's two-year-old, is a key window period for enhancing children's immunity and preventing adult diseases. Therefore, breastfeeding is recommended during this critical period.

First, for the baby, it is not only conducive to the baby's physical growth and intellectual development, but also can reduce the occurrence of chronic diseases in adulthood;

Second, for mothers, it can reduce postpartum bleeding, promote uterine contractions, accelerate postpartum recovery, promote body shape recovery, and also reduce the risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, postpartum anxiety and depression;

Third, for families, it can reduce economic expenditure, but also promote the development of parent-child relationship, which is conducive to the emotional development of babies and enhances the confidence of mothers in parenting.

If parents really want to buy products from overseas brands, they can choose to register The Bank of China Milk Powder. In the Measures for the Administration of Formula Registration of Infant Formula Milk Powder Products, it is mentioned that:

In order to ensure that the nutritional needs of normal children's growth and development, in view of the existing formula of children's formula milk powder products in the mainland market, there is too much and excessive formula, the formulation of formulas lacks sufficient research and demonstration, the distinction between formulas lacks scientific confirmation, the confusion between brands and formulas and exaggerated publicity cause consumers to choose difficulties, frequent replacement of formulas in the production process causes product quality and safety hazards, etc. Articles 74 and 81 of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China. Strict supervision and management of special foods such as children's formula foods shall be carried out. The product formula of infant formula milk powder shall be registered with the food and drug administration department under the State Council. When registering, a formula research and development report and other materials indicating the scientific and safety of the formula shall be submitted.

Although guobo milk powder and Haitao milk powder are imported milk powder, guobo milk powder needs to be subject to the quarantine inspection of China Customs, which is retained at the customs office for a long time, and after a long quarantine inspection, only qualified quality inspection is allowed to enter the domestic market for sale. In addition, the imported milk powder of the National Bank of China meets the mainland standards in terms of nutritional formula, which is more suitable for the nutrition required by mainland infants and young children in the process of growth and development.

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