Recently, the Shandong Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau announced the 26th food testing notice in 2021, the management bureau conducted supervision and sampling inspection of 876 batches of samples of 17 major categories of food, of which 859 batches of samples were qualified, edible agricultural products, pastries, tea and related products, edible oils, oils and fats and their products, soy products, quick-frozen foods, vegetable products, fruit products, beverages 9 major categories of food 17 batches of samples were unqualified, The edible plant blended oil produced by Dezhou Qingyun County Aidu Trading Co., Ltd. is called Sanhe Huifu Grain and Oil Group Refined Vegetable Oil Co., Ltd., and ethyl maltol does not meet the provisions of national food safety standards.
The sampling results showed that the edible plant blending oil sold by Qingyun County Aidu Trading Co., Ltd. in Dezhou City was called Sanhe Huifu Grain and Oil Group Refined Vegetable Oil Co., Ltd., and the ethyl maltol did not meet the provisions of the national standards for food safety, and the inspection agency was Qingdao Yuanxin Testing Technology Co., Ltd.
According to the test results of the inspection agency, the tested edible plant blend oil, the trademark is Huifu, the specification is 5L/barrel, the production date is August 10, 2019, and the detection value of ethyl maltol is 39.6μg/kg. The national standard value is not allowed to be used.
Ethyl maltol is a flavor improver, flavor enhancer, which has a significant effect on the harmonization, improvement and efficiency of the original fragrance of food, and is a synthetic fragrance for food that is allowed to be used. Long-term consumption of foods exceeding ethyl maltol may cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, and in severe cases, liver damage, premature brittleness of bones and joints.
The National Standard for Food Safety and the Standard for the Use of Food Additives (GB 2760-2014) stipulate that food spices and flavors shall not be added to vegetable oils and fats. The reason for the detection of ethyl maltol in edible oil may be that the producer and operator illegally added vegetable oils and fats with special flavors in order to achieve the purpose of shoddy filling.
The edible plant blending oil that failed the test this time is from Sanhe Huifu Grain and Oil Group Co., Ltd. Sanhe Huifu Grain and Oil Group Co., Ltd., located in Jingdong Economic and Technological Development Zone, is a comprehensive enterprise group dominated by the production of first-class soybean oil, with 5 subsidiaries under its jurisdiction. The Group processes 3 million tons of soybeans, produces 540,000 tons of soybean oil, and 2.42 million tons of soybean meal is one of the largest grain and oil processing enterprises in Asia, of which the single-line production capacity of refined vegetable oil ranks first in the world. At present, it is a national large-scale enterprise and a national agricultural industrialization key leading enterprise.