What safety problems can "poison tissues" cause?
Recently, "poison tissues" have become popular! Some time ago, a piece of news about the toxicity of toilet paper appeared on the hot search, which instantly caused heated discussions on the whole Internet!
In the past, people said that the disease came from the mouth, but now it seems to be different!
Regarding the safety of toilet paper, there has always been a problem, what kind of harm will the permanent chemicals exposed this time cause to the human body? What other products are included in life?
How to choose toilet paper, drawer paper, and wet toilet paper for daily use?
Can the wet wipes, cotton towels, and cloud towels used by children be used with confidence?
Today we will talk about "paper safety".
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are called by some scientists the most toxic and insidious chemicals. This substance is not only hidden in toilet paper.
PFAS are used in nonstick pans in the kitchen, food contact paper and cardboard, textiles, paints, waxes, polishes, concealers, foundations, eyebrow pencils and lipsticks.
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Due to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), it cannot be decomposed naturally.
When the buttock-wiping paper is flushed down the toilet and sent to the sewage treatment plant, these chemicals are mixed in the sewage sludge of the treatment plant and eventually spread into the fields as fertilizer, or leak into the waterways, causing serious water pollution.
When unbroken PFAS enter the body, it first binds to serum proteins and then deposits them in organs such as the liver, kidneys and testicles.
This can lead to thyroid disease, kidney cancer, testicular cancer, pregnancy-induced hypertension, fetal complications, ulcerative colitis and other serious health problems.
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Although countries have tightened controls, a 2007 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that PFAS chemicals can be detected in the blood of 98 percent of the U.S. population.
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Among all these daily necessities, paper towels are used most frequently, in order to prevent problems, everyone should pay attention when buying paper towels.
Let's talk about how to choose toilet paper, drawer paper, baby cotton soft wipes, wet wipes, and the recently overheated wet toilet paper.
At present, there are no reports of containing PFAS in domestic toilet paper, but friends who love to watch news should have noticed that CCTV has specifically exposed the process of processing inferior paper towels in some black workshops.
Among the sampled samples, the commonly used brands have also been exposed to be unqualified.
Some paper mills not only have a harsh production environment, but also make crude products, and the paper towels produced are detected with harmful substances such as formaldehyde, bleach, fluorescent agents and talcum powder.
Even the total number of bacteria is seriously exceeded.
Others are because of the "lack of two pounds", some packages are less than a quarter, and some packages are 32 less draws.
Friends who like to buy paper towels online should pay attention, such unqualified samples are purchased from e-commerce platforms.
Unqualified tissues can be harmful to adults and children.
1. Skin allergies and rashes
Paper that exceeds the standard of fluorescent agent and bleach will cause irritation to the skin and cause allergies, rashes and other problems.
If it accidentally enters the mouth, it will also cause gastrointestinal discomfort, some will also lead to decreased vision, and severe will induce cancer.
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2. Induce gynecological diseases
If it is a paper with excessive bacteria, it may cause bacterial infection and cause disease after use. Some girls even wiped out gynecological diseases because of wiping their butts.
The toilet paper brands that were previously exposed due to the total number of bacterial colonies exceeding the standard include: "Yongxing", "Jietong", "Snow Lotus Princess", "Pachido", "Miaoyue", "Skin Friend", "Xu Yang", "Cleaning Companion" and so on.
Let's see if you have bought it at home?
3. Affect the baby's intellectual development
The talcum powder in low-quality paper towels contains heavy metals such as lead and cadmium, and long-term use by pregnant mothers and babies will affect the child's nervous system, blood system and even cause the baby's intellectual disability.
Therefore, parents should pay extra attention when choosing paper towels.
If your paper towels are 5 pieces of 8 or four packs, or even grabbed for 1 cent, it is likely to be unqualified.
The following department will teach everyone to choose toilet paper, drawer paper, cotton soft towels, and wet toilet paper.
Toilet paper and drawers
(1) Look at the outer packaging of the paper towel
The outer packaging will indicate the paper towel implementation standard, the raw materials used for the paper, and the quality level.
Look at the paper towel implementation standard: toilet paper implementation standard GB/20810, the total number of bacterial colonies< 600cfu/g; Reminder: Don't wipe your mouth with toilet paper!
Tissue paper implements standard GB/T20808, and the total number of bacterial colonies < 200cfu/g.
Look at the lateral tensile index: toilet paper is fragile when exposed to water and will not block the toilet; The transverse tensile index of tissue paper is high, and it is not easy to break after wet water.
Look at raw materials: bamboo pulp, wood pulp, may use recycled or recycled raw materials (reused pulp); Native bamboo pulp, virgin wood pulp, the use of new raw materials, whether it is toilet paper or paper drawer is best to choose virgin bamboo pulp or virgin wood pulp.
Cheap paper towels snatched from the live broadcast room
Look at the quality level: toilet paper is divided into qualified products, first-class products, and excellent products; Tissue paper is divided into qualified products and excellent products, and the higher the grade, the better the water absorption and flexibility.
Some tissues are also divided into ultra-flexible type and ordinary type, and sensitive skin with rhinitis can choose ultra-flexible type.
Look at the color: usually the paper towel is off-white or log white for normal color, if the paper is too white, be careful to add fluorescent agents and other harmful substances.
If you want to see if there are any friends with fluorescent agents, you can use a banknote detector pen to test, and paper towels containing fluorescent agents and bleach will show blue-violet light.
(2) The feel of touching a tissue
Softness: High-quality paper towels are delicate and soft to the touch, inferior ones are hard and loose, and you can see a lot of inferior tissues when you go to small restaurants or food cities. A wipe will shed paper scraps, and even stick to the mouth full of paper foam.
Toughness: high-quality paper towels have good elasticity and tensile strength, and will not be torn or shed paper dust. Inferior paper towels are easy to tear and break, and powder residue will fall off.
(3) Smell the smell
High-quality paper towels are almost tasteless, there will be some woody scent, but there will never be a pungent smell, if the paper towel has a pungent chemical taste, do not buy.
(4) Trial
The texture of the good and bad tissues wiped on the hands and faces is different. If you feel soft and comfortable, without the stiffness of rubbing your skin, it is a good tissue.
You can also put different paper towels into the water and observe the paper towel status.
Inferior paper towels are easy to turn into slag after being blistered and cannot be lifted.
The high-quality water absorption is still formed.
Wet toilet paper and wipes
Choose regular big brand products, in line with the national standard of wet wipes GB/T27728 and disposable hygiene products hygiene standard GB 15979.
Look at the ingredients:
Wet toilet paper, look at the liquid composition, pure water is appropriate. No harmful additives.
Wet wipes, do not choose additives containing propylene glycol, sodium benzoate, cetyl pyridine chloride, chlorhexidine digluconate and so on.
See if there will be consecutive draws:
Once the wet toilet paper and wet paper are withdrawn, it is difficult to put it back, and it is easy to form secondary pollution.
When choosing wet toilet paper, you should also pay attention to whether the outer packaging has the words "can be thrown into the toilet" and "can be flushed", and whether it has passed the national vaginal mucosal test.
If there is moisture residue after wiping, remember to wipe it with toilet paper again, otherwise excessive humidity will also breed bacteria, or gynecological inflammation, perianal eczema, etc.
If there are conditions at home, you can directly use the intelligent flushing toilet, saving trouble and directly cleaning and hygiene.
Baby cotton towel and cloud towel
At present, the country does not have a national standard for cotton soft towels, and most brands implement GB 15979 "Hygiene Standards for Disposable Hygiene Products" when they are produced.
However, some brands will have their own enterprise production implementation standards and state-certified health license "health certificate number" to ensure the safety of cotton soft towel products.
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That's it for sharing tissue safety!