Alum is heavily punished for adding more than the standard How to build a food safety defense line for powder skin?

It is reported that the owner of a hot pot seasoning in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, was fined for adding alum to the production of flour skins in excess of the standard, and then continued to operate the hot pot seasoning factory and was sentenced to lifelong ban. For a time, it attracted the applause of the crowd! Food safety is greater than the sky, especially after experiencing special events, people's concept of healthy eating has been continuously enhanced, and the quality requirements for food such as powder and skin have been continuously improved. In this regard, how to build a safety defense line for the production of powdered food?

Powder skin is a traditional specialty food eaten in both the north and south of China, which is made of rice, potato starch, sweet potato starch, mung bean starch, broad bean starch, tapioca starch, etc., and is processed and produced by sizing, feeding, steaming, cooling, detaching, cutting, drying and other processes. Because of its soft and tender skin, the taste of Q elastic tendons and delicate characteristics of many consumers, and as a hot pot, spicy hot, skewers and other ingredients in the catering industry can also be seen in the catering industry.

However, driven by interests, some unscrupulous manufacturers or traders and workshops have also brought safety risks to the powder skin market due to illegal addition of non-edible substances and abuse of food additives (such as alum). Recently, the person in charge of a hot pot seasoning factory in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, was sentenced for adding alum to the production of flour skins in excess of the standard. However, after his sentence ended, he continued to operate a hot pot seasoning factory. In this regard, 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 was not allowed to engage in food production and operation management for life.

The author understands that in the processing of traditional powder skin, vermicelli, vermicelli and other products, the addition of aluminum potassium sulfate (alum) can improve the tenderness, softness, toughness and texture of the powder skin, as well as reduce the loss of broken strips. Although it is stated that alum is not a food additive prohibited by the state, it is added to the corresponding food such as powder skin, and the alum as a leavening agent should be used in accordance with the scope of application and limit standards of food additives, such as the residual amount of aluminum in the powder skin shall not exceed 100mg/kg.

Taking this as a warning, other food processing enterprises such as powder skin should standardize production and processing, do not illegally add non-edible substances and abuse or excessive addition of food additives (alum), and use them in accordance with the scope of application and limited standards of food additives, and strictly control the quality and safety of powder and skin product production. In addition, powder and skin processing enterprises can continuously improve the processing technology, the introduction of advanced powder skin machinery and equipment, without the addition of alum can improve the smoothness of the powder skin, the taste of the strong road, reduce the loss of broken strips, non-strips.

For the market supervision department, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the special inspection of food safety such as powder skin, or conduct free food testing through mass sample delivery, on-site sampling, market sampling and other methods, and give full play to the advantages of flexible, accurate and convenient food safety rapid testing vehicles, use food testing instruments to test common foods such as powder skin, fruits and vegetables, aquatic products such as alum softening agent, etc., timely find problems, leave no dead ends, no hidden dangers, and strictly prevent problems such as powder skin from flowing to the table.

Food safety is an insurmountable bottom line, and any food production and sales related acts such as powder skins should be carried out within the scope of the law. At the same time, with the enhancement of people's concept of food safety, coupled with the improvement of national laws and regulations, the control of food safety will become more and more stringent. Powder skin and other food processing enterprises should strictly regulate production, do not hold the psychology of luck, desperate to take risks, through the illegal addition of non-edible substances and abuse of food additives and other ways to enhance the flavor of powder skin taste, but should be more in the processing technology, equipment more efforts, otherwise it is bound to be punished by law.