Friends, do you use plastic bottles for cooking oil at home? Plastic bottles of cooking oil will dissolve into plasticizers, plasticizers are chronic poisons and extremely harmful! According to Professor Li Shuguang of the School of Basic Medicine of Tongji University, a scientific research team led by him recently collected samples of soybean salad oil, blended oil and peanut oil in plastic barrels of different brands and different factory dates, as well as bulk soybean oil sold in the market, solid shortening from a fast food restaurant frying food, and condensed oil collected from kitchen hoods of residents. The scientific research team measured these samples and found that almost all brands of plastic barrels of cooking oil contained “dibutyl phthalate (DBP)” and “dioctyl phthalate (DoP)”, which are two substances (DBP and D○P) often used in the plastics industry. These two substances (DBP and D○P) are phthalate plasticizers often used in the plastics industry, while bulk soybean oil and solid shortening, which are not contained in plastic containers, contain almost no plasticizers. It is assumed that the plasticizers detected in the edible oils were mainly from their plastic containers. Researchers have found that the acute toxicity of plasticizers is very low, and there are almost no signs of acute poisoning, such as vomiting, fever and diarrhea, when ingested by humans. But this does not mean that it is safe, but on the contrary, its chronic toxicity is quite harmful to humans. Foreign animal research results show that plasticizers can lead to reduced survival rate, weight loss, decreased liver and kidney function, blood red blood cell reduction, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity. This plasticizer has a certain toxic effect on the human body, and it is more toxic to men. The Guangzhou Food Safety Information Network recently published the results of this test in a press release. At present, China’s thousands of families eat three meals a day, most of the oil is bought from the market in plastic barrels. The reporter learned from several large edible oil manufacturers, the current national standards do not include plasticizers in the physical and chemical indicators of edible oil testing, and there are no regulations and requirements for the content of plasticizers. “Whether the plastic bottle packaging can be replaced with glass bottles or tin cans? In response to the reporter’s question, a peanut oil business, said the enterprise has also used anecdotal can packaging, but on the one hand, the cost is too high, on the other hand, iron cans may also be oxidation and other reactions, consumers also generally reflect the use of iron cans is not convenient. And if the use of glass bottles will bring inconvenience to transportation, he also said that even the original imported olive oil and other products abroad, are also using plastic bottles packaging, only a few gifts using glass bottles. Plasticizers are more widespread than pesticides More worrying is that plasticizer pollution is almost ubiquitous, the most commonly used raw materials in the chemical industry. Over time, it will slowly spill out of plastic products into the air, soil, water and even food. “The wide range of its use, the pollution of the area, the number of people affected, than pesticides, DDT and other ever. “Yesterday, experts from the Guangdong Provincial Epidemic Prevention Station and a chemistry professor from South China University of Technology told reporters that in countless tests, air, water and all kinds of plastic products and human blood and even breast milk were found to contain plasticizers. Experts say that PvC products containing DOP plasticizers are widely used in fields related to human health care and life, and it is difficult to replace them all with other materials. Such as latex gloves, plasma bags, part of the blood transfusion, infusion, breathing apparatus, and children’s toys, artificial leather (used as clothing, shoe materials, handbags, sofa fabric, etc.), PvC products occupy a large proportion. Some developed countries have been used in these products in the use of plasticizers and other additives have strict regulations or corresponding recommendations, while China’s medical gloves, blood plasma bags of the main plasticizer is still DOP. No maximum content in food Although developed countries can not find a complete solution to plasticizer pollution, but Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea have used citrate, epoxy acid esters and other safe and environmentally friendly Plasticizers for the update of alternative products, and have introduced standards and regulations in food packaging, medical supplies, children’s toys and other products in contact with the human body to ban DOP, such regulations generally follow two principles: to limit the use of plasticizers in plastics, limit the maximum allowable content to food. China also has a food container, packaging materials with the use of additives health standards (GB9685-94), but has not yet developed the maximum allowable content in food. Although these plasticizer varieties are not yet conclusive whether carcinogenic, but because China’s relevant standards are lagging behind, which has led to a series of problems such as domestic exports of plastic products blocked, and products containing obsolete plasticizers entered the country in large numbers. Guangdong CDC as early as a few lunar days ago began to apply for the subject, hoping to make a specific analysis of the precipitation of harmful substances in PvC, followed by recommendations for product standards changes, but due to financial problems have not been implemented. Experts called for the solution of China’s plasticizer standards lagging behind the problem is urgent.