In Marx's Capital, there is a deafening statement: "When the profit reaches 100%, there are people who take risks, when it reaches 200%, they dare to risk going to the guillotine, and when it reaches 300%, they trample on all laws." ”
Usually, when we buy something, we will check the brand of the production date of the product, and feel that as long as the qualifications are complete, there is no problem, especially those goods in stores and supermarkets, often because they are backed by a certain big store or supermarket, it will make people feel more at ease.
As everyone knows, in our daily products, there are likely to be unexpected health risks.
According to data from the National Cancer Center in 2018, there are more than 3.8 million new cancer cases and 2.29 million deaths in mainland China every year.
The incidence of cancer in China is increasing year by year, partly because of the increasingly serious environmental problems, and partly because of our daily necessities.
A few years ago, CCTV exposed a cheap toilet paper, the cheaper the carcinogens, the more carcinogens, and many families have it, do you still use it?
Garbage and waste materials can also be used to make paper towels
In 2016, the environmental protection bureau of Liaobu Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, carried out a toilet paper quality sampling activity, during which it was found that many manufacturers had illegal production, and their factories had cross-flowing wastewater, and the site was stinking, and there was no sewage outlet at all.
Although the team of inspectors had put on masks, they were still choked and coughed incessantly while talking, but the person in charge of the factory did not react, and it was obvious that he was used to the environment of the factory.
According to Zhu Zuqi, deputy head of the inspection team, these pungent smells mainly come from rubber and plastic waste, which contain (VOSs) and sulfides, which make people uncomfortable.
According to the regulations, the emission pollution of this manufacturer has exceeded the standard, and the police officers immediately cut off the power and put a seal on the machine at the scene.
Waiting for this toilet paper manufacturer will be the sanction of the law, and after this news was exposed, many people also began to worry about the quality of toilet paper, after all, this factory has been open in Guangzhou for more than ten years.
The police really found a few downstream dealers, but they were all miscellaneous toilet paper, and some didn't even have a brand, and the price was very cheap, and most of them were sold on online e-commerce platforms.
Paper towels are a necessity in each of our lives, because of the huge consumption, so we all like to stock up on some at home, especially when it comes to cheap and affordable, and we can't help but want to buy it.
If you open an e-commerce website casually, you can see activities such as "9.9 free shipping, 1 yuan seckill", and many people feel that online stores do not have high rents and do not need to hire shopping guides, so the price of goods is very low.
In fact, this is not the case, the price shows that the profit is high enough, just imagine, we usually send a courier for 10 yuan, and those things that can be shipped to your home for free at 9.9, the store can make a few dollars from it.
Not only on the Internet, but also roadside stalls, banks give out gifts for free, often take toilet paper as a gift for activities, to attract a part of the social group to participate in the event, on the surface, these toilet paper and the shopping mall is no different.
In 2019, CCTV's "Weekly Quality Morning Post" column conducted spot checks on household paper, and the results of the sampling inspection were unbelievable.
Of the 150 batches (including paper towels and toilet paper) samples, a total of 36 batches had serious exceedances of hazardous substances, with a failure rate of 24%.
In the investigation, it was found that there are also manufacturers who will do tricks on raw materials, and their opportunistic methods can be said to be varied, which is always unexpected.
Under normal circumstances, the toilet paper we use is produced through many processes, which can be roughly divided into 4 parts, the first step is to break up the trees and soak them to make pulp.
The second step is to disinfect and sterilize the pulp, which is very critical and can directly determine the quality of the product, and then the pulp is fished out and dried, packaged and shipped out of the factory, so that a roll of qualified toilet paper is considered to be done.
However, as the market competition becomes more and more fierce, some businesses begin to produce not in accordance with the standardized process, especially in the step of sterilization and disinfection, which is time-consuming and laborious.
It is worth mentioning that not all toilet paper is made from bark and logs, and there are also "reusable pulp", which literally uses secondary recycled pulp.
The mainland does allow the use of reused pulp, but the premise is that it must be disinfected cleanly, and the bacteria and harmful substances of the final finished paper cannot exceed the national standard, but many small papermaking workshops do not meet the requirements.
Here is another industry to tell you that some businesses in order to sell, often on the toilet paper packaging to play the words "pure wood pulp", it sounds very advanced, but reuse pulp plus pure wood pulp, can also be said to be pure wood pulp.
If you want to buy toilet paper with pure wood pulp, you have to recognize the words "virgin wood pulp", which many people overlook.
The raw material composition of reused pulp is very complex, most of which are waste paper, rag strips, and even garbage plastic bags that we throw away in our lives, even if they are moldy, they can be legally recycled, after all, they need to be disinfected.
The acrylamide in it may be converted into an acrylamide derivative during the immersion process, which is classified as a Group 2A carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
In order to make toilet paper appear clean, some businesses will add excessive fluorescent agents and brighteners in the production process, and other businesses feel that the cost of fluorescent agents is high, but choose to add lower price talcum powder or whitening agents, the cheaper the toilet paper, the more likely it is "toxic".
These substances often contain stilbene vinyl phenol compounds such as stilbene ethylene, bis(phenyl)vinylphenol, etc., which fluoresce blue-purple when exposed to ultraviolet light, making toilet paper look white.
There is now a lot of evidence that the compounds in these fluorescent brighteners will produce carcinogens under certain conditions, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzopyrene, despite a large number of exposure and remediation by CCTV media and market supervision departments.
Finally, I remind everyone that toilet paper is a daily necessities that have been in contact with us for a long time, so we must go to regular manufacturers to buy them, and don't be greedy for a while.
Text: Uncle Luo Ying
Edited by Uncle Luo Ying
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The original article was published in the report "Beiqing Net's "Poisonous Paper Towel" Was Exposed, and Garbage and Waste Materials Can Also Be Made into Napkins!
The original article was published in a report on Guangming Net's "Attention! This kind of free paper towel is used with caution, and many people have been tricked".