Peng Mou, the head of a hot pot seasoning factory in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for adding alum to the production of powder skins in excess of the standard. However, after Peng's sentence ended, he continued to operate a hot pot seasoning factory. The Market Supervision Bureau decided to revoke the production license of the small food workshop of the hot pot seasoning factory involved in the case, and the person in charge, Peng Mou, was not allowed to engage in food production and operation management for life.
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<h4>The dangers of eating alum</h4>
Alum, also known as alum, is a refined product of alum stone, the chemical name is potassium aluminum sulfate. Alum is not only used as a chemical raw material, but also for water purification. Alum cold taste sour, has a strong astringent effect, Chinese medicine believes that alum has detoxification and insecticide, dry and wet antipruritic, hemostasis and diarrhea, heat and sputum elimination effect.
In addition, alum is also a traditional food improver and leavening agent, commonly used as an additive in the production of fritters, vermicelli, rice noodles and other food products. However, because the chemical composition of alum is potassium aluminum sulfate, which contains aluminum ions, excessive intake will affect the body's absorption of iron, calcium and other ingredients, resulting in osteoporosis, anemia, and even affecting the development of nerve cells.
Therefore, some nutrition experts have proposed to eat as little food as possible containing alum. There is no hard and fast rule in the country for the amount of alum, because it is different according to the needs of the production of various products, but the alum contains a large amount of aluminum, because the regulations only stipulate the residual amount of aluminum. According to the national food additive hygiene standards, the maximum amount of alum used is "according to the production needs of the appropriate amount of use", but the residual amount of aluminum should be ≤ 100mg/kg. Alum contains aluminum, so it is very toxic. Aluminum itself is easy to accumulate in the human body, for example, in the brain, kidneys, liver, spleen and other organs may produce accumulation, if deposited in the brain is easy to cause Alzheimer's disease, memory loss, intelligence decline and other symptoms.
<h4>(Original title: Hot pot seasoning boss plus exceeding the label to indicate that alum is banned for life).</h4>
<h4>Source: North Evening New Visual Synthesis People's Daily Netizen Review Encyclopedia</h4>
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