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Mei X Chen was exposed to quality problems!
On April 7, according to the public information in Guangzhou, The Baby Formula (0-6 months old, 1 stage) was detected by vanillin and ethyl vanillin during the sampling test, and the re-examination was unqualified, and it was fined 1.2944 million.
Mei Xchen is not the only milk powder that has recently had an accident, the bacteria checked the government announcement and found that many big-name milk powders have "overturned" on vanillin.
On March 9, the Market Supervision Bureau of Hefei City, Anhui Province, reported that vanillin was detected in The Infant Formula Goat Milk Powder of Beixi, which did not meet the provisions of the national food safety standards.
On April 1, Ao X Chun Cuan Infant Formula was exposed to unqualified sampling and vanillin exceeded the standard.
At present, the three milk powders are being recalled, if you find that you have bought unqualified milk powder, you can contact the manufacturer for recall through the following methods.
Looking at these problematic brands, some parents may still wonder: What exactly is vanillin? What exactly does it affect children?
The fungus will tell you in detail next:
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Metabolic burden hurts the body
The dangers of vanillin, you must know
Vanillin was first extracted from vanilla, which is currently mainly synthetic, and is the most widely used and the largest amount of fragrance in the world.
But the wide range of uses does not mean that this flavor can be used in all foods.
The national standards for infant milk powder in the mainland stipulate:
Infant formula for 0-6 months should not contain any flavoring.
Vanillin can be used in cereal supplements such as infant formula and infant biscuits.
However, there is a clear limit to the maximum use of vanillin: the former uses up to 5mg/100mL, and the latter uses up to 7mg/100g.
Why are there such strict regulations on vanillin in infant and toddler food?
There are three reasons for this:
◆ For children, the metabolic burden is too heavy
Babies' body organs are not mature, their metabolic detoxification ability is relatively poor, and eating foods with food additives will increase the burden of their daily metabolism.
If the added dose of food exceeds the body's detoxification ability, it may also produce a certain degree of toxicity.
Therefore, the presence of vanillin may cause excessive metabolic burden on children and affect physical health.
◆ May harm normal cells
Vanillin itself has some antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects that may be beneficial for adults.
But for children who are too young, this property of vanillin may accidentally injure normal cells and affect children's development.
◆ Easy to cause children to "addictive"
Babies before 6 months of age are more sensitive to the taste of food due to a single diet.
If at this time, vanillin, which is too "sweet" substance, is added to their milk powder, it will affect their taste preferences, which can easily lead to problems such as picky eating and partial eating.
Seeing this, some parents may already be a little nervous, worried that the milk powder their children have drunk will also contain vanillin.
But here, the bacteria also want to tell you: don't have to regard vanillin as a flood beast, after all, we can't talk about toxicity aside from the dose.
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Milk powder containing vanillin
It is not necessary to drink
As for whether the milk powder that their children have drunk will exceed the vanillin standard, the bacteria feel that everyone does not have to worry too much.
First of all, it is impossible for regular enterprises to take the initiative to add vanillin to the 1st stage of milk powder.
Only sometimes, the production line will produce 1 and 2 or more milk powder at the same time, and there may be a small amount of milk powder mixed in between batches, and the companies that were exposed this time are also because of problems in the production line.
In this case, trace amounts of vanillin do not affect the safety of milk powder, and the taste effect can be ignored. Companies are only penalized for the non-compliance of the products being tested.
In addition, the state only stipulates that vanillin cannot be added to 1 stage of milk powder, but it does not prohibit the addition of vanillin in 2 and above milk powder.
Therefore, if the children in the family have passed the age of drinking 1 stage of milk powder, they do not have to worry too much.
Finally, if you encounter some milk powder with the slogan of "no vanillin" and "no vanillin" to recommend their own products, don't believe it.
The National Standard for Food Labeling (Draft for Comment) explicitly prohibits the use of such slogans because they are actually misleading consumers.
In the end, the problem of vanillin in milk powder is still a small probability event, we do not have to be too anxious, as far as possible when purchasing, we still buy big-name milk powder through formal channels.
However, as an important ration for children to absorb nutrition, it is very important to choose the right one for children.
So, how should you choose your child's milk powder? Which metrics are more important?
The bacteria have also prepared a strategy, let's look down together.
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Formula for children
How to buy is safe
In order to take care of the needs of children of different ages, today's bacteria assessment also specially distinguishes 1, 2 and 3 stages of milk powder, and everyone can choose the part they need to view.
Here the bacteria selected the common domestic big-name milk powder, compared the nutritional elements in it, and made a table and put it below.