The food security of Beijing is done: Lime medicine accelerates the ripening the mango does not have potential safety hazard

The food security of Beijing is done: Lime medicine accelerates the ripening the mango does not have potential safety hazard
Www.xinhuanet.com Beijing April 1 special despatch ( The intersection of reporter and spring Pu Liu) The office of food security of Beijing notifies reporter of Xinhua News Agency of many kinds of expert on the the afternoon of the 1st right " Lime accelerate the ripening mango " Security risk assessment result. Assess the result to reveal, the mango accelerating the ripening with lime medicine does not have potential safety hazard.
Have media report Beijing have retailer cash the intersection of ethylene and favourable medicinal liquid, sealed and familiar with with quick lime the raw mango before this, then arrive in the agriculture by-product wholesale market and sell in batches and sell. And worry that some consumers suspect this. To this question, the office of food security of Beijing organizes mango, plant hormone and food security expert immediately, assess overall analysis from each course such as the production, preservation, keeping fresh of the mango. The expert analyzes that does not think the mango accelerating the ripening with lime medicine have potential safety hazard, consumers can rest assured to eat.
According to the introduction of expert, the mango is a kind of tropical perishable fruit, usually gather when seven or eight fen is well done, in order to meet needs such as transporting for long-distance or preservation and freshness,etc.. Use the back ripe course that the profit of ethylene can accelerate the mango. The profit of ethylene can release endogenous hormone ethylene of plant, ethylene is a kind of gas apt to volatilize, this kind of material does not have corresponding receptor in the human body ' Click in the location where ethylene works) ,Under the normal operating position, will not be harmful to human body.
The expert thinks, the quick lime which the retailer used in the media reports, its scientific name, in order to oxidize calcium, this kind of material with water will produce the chemical reaction and release certain heat, this kind of heat can improve the preservation temperature of the mango, accelerate the back ripe course of the mango. At the edible mango, even if infected with a small amount of lime at the peel of the mango, through the course of washing, peeling etc., will not cause influence on eaters' health either. According to " food additive sanitary standard " (G B 2760- 2007) ,It oxidizes calcium to be to allow use process auxiliary is can according to produce the need, use in food processing.
The person in charge of office of food security of Beijing says, together with relevant food security supervision departments such as industry and commerce, quality supervising, hygiene,etc., further standardize the market retailer and produce and sell the food behavior, implement the food market access system conscientiously, strengthen the food risk of the market to monitor, strengthen it to the delisting efforts monitoring the food not up to standard.
As far as reporter know, the mango accelerating the ripening with lime medicine can still continue selling on the market of Beijing. Beijing has not found yet so far someone has been poisoned because of edible mango.
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