Poor Quality Disposable Tableware Equals to Invisible Killer

Low-cost and Low-quality Disposable Tableware Seriously Harm Human Health

The fast-paced lifestyle makes disposable tableware with convenient features enter our lives. In recent years, the use of disposable tableware has been growing by geometric figures. An increasing number of migrant workers, white-collar workers, the students are accustomed to resolve eating problems in fast food restaurants. Disposable snack containers, disposable chopsticks, disposable cups ... you will use the disposable tableware almost eating at a fast food restaurant. You may think the tableware convenient, and even feel more "clean and sanitary". But the fact is that the most disposable tableware we use belongs to low-cost low-quality products, often containing industrial calcium carbonate, heavy metals, toxic substances, paraffin, benzene, fluorescent, etc, which seriously harm human health.

The Disposable Tableware in the Market Still Have Serious Safety and Quality Issues

In June this year, the country announced the recommended provision of disposable cups, paper bowls, paper lunch boxes, the disposable cups, the standard stipulates that paper bowls, paper lunch boxes cannot artificially ad fluorescent agent and you should not use recycled materials. However, the new standard does not require the food and beverage industry to enforce. So, the disposable tableware on sale and in use in the market still exist serious safety and quality issues. These disposable lunch boxes, plates, dishes, chopsticks, straws made of chemical raw materials mostly have "three no" packaging, no site manufacturers or the production date. The experts say that if long-term use of the disposable tableware, the toxic substances in the material will be oozing in the event of high temperature, high oil, acetic acid (vinegar), or even directly transfer to the food.

A Lot of Disposable Tableware is Added With Industrial Raw Materials

Li Zhiping, the chief from Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration regulatory branch of food service inspection pointed out that from raw material point of view, a lot of disposable tableware are added a large amount of calcium carbonate, industrial paraffin, recycling waste in the production process, the product evaporation residue (positive Balkoxy, acetic acid) is seriously overweight. Meanwhile, in the production process, it does not meet health standards. CCTV recently exposed that several shady production of disposable tableware: a factory starts to acquire low-cost or even pick-up the disposable chopsticks have been used from garbage for processing. First casually rinse sodium hydroxide fumigation in the pool to eliminate moldy, then soaked in industrial hydrogen peroxide to bleach, then remove and polished after drying and bagging, then the new disposable chopsticks are "born". Other manufacturers recycle workshop scrap, drink bottles, even after playing bottle infusion tube in order to save costs and then made into disposable plastic cups and bowls.

Disposable Tableware May Become An "Invisible Killer"

When using these disposable tableware, especially use them to install hot foods, the containing harmful substances will precipitate, attached to the food. If people eat this food, it may cause liver and kidney damage, and even cause cancer. This kind of disposable tableware will undoubtedly become an "invisible killer". Professor Wu Qitang, Resources and Environment College of South China Agricultural University, said that the disposable tableware is indeed convenient, but it is also an indisputable fact health is not up to the standard, waste of forest resources and environmental pollution. So, from the point of environmental protection, health, we should reduce or avoid the use of disposable tableware.

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