heed! Guangzhou found four homemade lemon teas containing "sunset yellow"

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Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision

Sampling of homemade drinks operated in the city,

In four homemade lemon tea drinks

"Sunset Yellow" food additives were detected.

A total of 106 batches of homemade drinks were sampled, and the inspection items included benzoic acid and its sodium salt (in terms of benzoic acid), amaranth red, annatto, lemon yellow, sunset yellow, bright blue and so on. According to the inspection and judgment of national food safety standards, 102 batches of qualified samples and 4 batches of unqualified samples were sampled, and the pass rate was 96.2%.

The four lemon tea drinks that failed to pass the sample were:

●Guangzhou Baiyun District Jingtai Xuege Tea Drink Shop self-made sales of "Jagy Grass" (signature Thai lemon green)

●Guangzhou Nansha District Huanggefeng Tea Beverage Shop self-made sales of "Thai green lemon tea"

● Guangzhou Slippery Six Catering Service Co., Ltd. self-made sales of "derailed lemon tea" and "bone magic lemon (drink)".

These four lemon tea drinks all contain the food additive "Sunset Yellow" that cannot be used in tea drinks.

According to reports, sunset yellow is an artificial synthetic colorant that is widely used in the food processing industry. According to the "National Standard for Food Safety and The Standard for the Use of Food Additives", in the commonly used synthetic colorants, sunset yellow, amaranth red and annatto cannot be used in tea beverages; while the maximum use of lemon yellow and temptation red in tea drinks is 0.1g/kg, and the maximum use of bright blue is 0.02g/kg.

Long-term or disposable large amounts of food with excessive pigment content of food, may cause allergies, diarrhea and other symptoms, when the intake is too large, more than the liver load, it will accumulate in the body, causing certain damage to the kidneys and liver.

The Municipal Market Supervision Bureau has required the market supervision department of the jurisdiction to investigate and deal with unqualified food and its producers and operators in a timely manner, order enterprises to find out the flow of products, take measures such as removing shelves and recalling unqualified products to control risks, and analyze the reasons for rectification.

If consumers find unqualified food involved in this announcement in the market, they can call the 12345 hotline in time to complain and report.

Consumption tips

1. When consumers buy and drink ready-made and ready-to-sell drinks, do not blindly pursue "appearance" and drink less drinks with too bright colors.

2. Before purchasing drinks, you should first check the business license of the operator, the food business license, the health certificate of the employees, the quantitative grading information and the health status of the business premises, etc., and do not buy drinks produced and sold by unlicensed beverage stores.

When ordering food through the Internet, you should also pay attention to whether the merchant publishes basic information such as business license, food business license, quantitative grading, etc., and pay attention to tracking the order and delivery time after ordering, and eating as soon as possible.

3. Do not buy products without factory name, factory address, production date and shelf life, do not buy products that exceed the shelf life, and do not buy unqualified products published by official information.

Information Times reporter Cheng Xiaozhen correspondent Sui Shijian