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In other countries, food packaging safety and food quality and safety are eually important. To protect food safety, the world is not only the quality of the food itself, made more stringent hygiene requirements, while its packaging has also developed a very high standard, put forward strict requirements, and some require the implementation of some developed countries has become technical barriers to trade one of the means.
    Food packaging includes plastic bags, paper bags, aluminum foil bag, glass, ceramic bottles, tin cans, plastic film, etc. in packaging and materials, as well as cardboard boxes, plastic barrels, steel drums and other packaging and materials, these packaging materials in the because of excessive harmful ingredients may affect the quality of food, damage to human health. The major countries of China’s food exports the United States, Japan and the European Union, these countries import food packaging have recently issued a series of technical regulations and measures to strengthen the safety of imported food packaging management.
    International Organization for Standardization: August 2009, the International Organization for Standardization ISO in the HACCP standards of safety management system developed based on the “food safety management systems – on the food chain requirements of any organization” (ISO22000). ISO22000 is a voluntary international standard, is a new food safety management system standard defined the common food safety management requirements, it is intended to ensure that the food supply chain, there is no weak link in the food chain covering the whole process, that is planting , breeding, primary processing, manufacturing, distribution, until consumer use, including food. The standard for global food safety management system proposed a unified standard, and to promote global enterprises to be more simple and consistent manner HACCP.
    EU: for the printing ink applied to almost all the food packaging, but it contains heavy metals, residual solvents, volatile organic compounds, as well as a large number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other toxic and harmful chemicals to migrate through the chemical pollution of food contents, including benzene residue great harm on people could easily cause a cancer, a diseases, the EU created the largest food packaging printing ink transfer value, the provisions of food packaging materials, printing inks in the 4 – methyl-benzophenone and benzophenone the overall migration limit value must be less than 0.6 mg / kg. The current international limits on the printing ink, permitted or prohibited substances and evaluation method of containing a consensus has not been established standards, our regulations in that regard also in vacuum.
    Europe and the United States: a result of organic chemical raw material bisphenol A (BPA) may cause the human heart, liver and other diseases, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked in December 31, 2009 prior to assessing the risks of bisphenol A, the country’s states will gradually prohibition of food containers and drink containers containing the substance. Following the United States, Canada announced a ban in food packaging and contact materials, the use of bisphenol A, the French Parliament also submitted a motion to ban in food packaging and contact materials, the use of Bisphenol-A.
    The United States: will be implemented during the year 2009 “the United States 2009 Food Security Enhancement Act” stipulates that foreign exports to the U.S. food companies, including pet food production, packaging, warehousing companies must annually to the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) registration. In addition, the United States country of origin labels are mandatory requirement from March 16, 2009 starting on meat, minced beef, chicken and mutton, pork, wild and farmed fish and shellfish, perishable agricultural products (12.82 , 0.34,2.72%) (fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables), ginseng, peanuts, and other pre-packaged name of the country of origin labeling mandatory, provides for retailers and product suppliers record-keeping requirements, violations of provisions of suppliers and retailers shall be punished by a fine of up to 1000 U.S. dollars.
    Japan: Japan is the world’s most one of the countries pay attention to packaging. Japan’s “Food Sanitation Law” clearly asks, food packaging can not be too fancy to be tasteless, but when printing food packaging must use a special ink, that is, alcohol-soluble ink must be replaced by toluene solvent inks more stable, non – likely to be volatile harmful substances.
    Japan in particular, require children to color can not be too much food packaging, clamshell packaging, have a separate inner membrane. In addition, the Japanese phenomenon of fraud against the company in the country, on December 25, 2008 to further regulate the labeling the country of origin marking.
    United Kingdom: United Kingdom Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition labeling scheme is more complete visual display to require supermarkets and food enterprises to the production or sale of food products labeled more clearly the information labels, and called for more clearly marked in food calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat total, saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, sugars, dietary fiber and calcium content of nutrients and units. January 6, 2009, said British Environment Minister HilaryBenn, food companies and supermarkets must indicate the true origin of food products, the company should be clearly stated on the label on the product country of origin of the initial composition, rather than the ultimate producer.
    France: France announced since January 1, 2010 onwards, will prohibit the use of non-biodegradable plastic materials, packaged foods, agricultural products, replaced by environmentally friendly biodegradable materials completely replace. In addition, food packaging introduced a new text description requirements for food packaging to display the business name of food, while also indicating its legal name, and also provides the volume of the box must be broadly consistent with the volume of food itself may not be used beyond the excessive volume of food itself box packaging.
    Impact
    Foreign food packaging made increasingly stringent new requirements, new standards, although the objective to promote China’s exports of food and packaging industries to a more healthy, safer, more environmentally friendly direction, and gradually integrated into the international and standardized the development of track, however, due to the developed countries a high level of food safety management in the food packaging management, has produced some of the demanding requirements of the protective effect of trade restrictions and, in the objective has become more important in international food trade, a new type of technical trade barriers.

Due to people’s food safety, shelf life extension, cost-effectiveness, environmental issues and consumer demand increased convenience, food packaging technology has also been fully developed, in order to improve the performance of packaging to meet people’s needs, active packaging technology should be transported and Health. antimicrobial food packaging technology is a kind of active packaging technology, which can effectively suppress the surface of micro-organisms of food to extend the shelf life of food to ensure food quality. This paper discusses the type of antimicrobial packaging technology and their application in food, Antimicrobial packaging systems as well as inorganic antibacterial agent, organic antibacterial agent and a natural antimicrobial agent summed up. Finally, the future development of antimicrobial packaging technology trends were described.

When choosing foods, many consumers know to look at QS, but the paper packaging, containers have to go through QS certification but are not aware. From September 1,2009, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine to begin across the country investigated and dealt with without access to food paper packaging, food containers and other products production license the production, sale and use of such acts; same time, “food containers, packaging materials with the additive use of health standards “and” food containers, packaging materials used melamine – formaldehyde moldings and health standards, “” plastic disposable tableware General technical requirements “and a series of food packaging, containers have to implement the standard, these are for food safety plus of a lock.

Paper packaging, the container will be standardized

Teabag filter paper, loaded bread paper bags, fast-food restaurants food boxes in full bloom, the family used to entertain guests disposable cups … … can be seen everywhere in life food packaging paper products presence. According to AQSIQ announced in May this year, “About carrying out food paper packaging, containers and other products production license investigative work without a license notice” be provided from September 1 onwards, paper cups, paper tableware and other food paper packaging, the container must have a QS logo can be in the market.

It is understood that from the beginning in June 2007, AQSIQ has cups, paper tableware, food wrapping paper, etc. there are 21 kinds of national standards and industry standards in food production licensing system for the implementation of paper products. Included in the directory includes not only the consumers commonly used paper bags, paper cans, paper cups, paper tableware, paper boxes, etc., but also paper bowl instant noodles, burgers, sandwiches and other cooked food classes wrapping paper, candy, preserved fruits, medicine balls, of wrapping paper, tea cake, wrapping paper, tea bag of wrapping paper, apples, bananas and other fruit, food packaging paper wrapping paper, etc., are all in the management of the scope of QS.

Dong Lion disclosed that the national standard “one-off cups hygiene standards” have been developed and are currently being National Standardization Management Committee for review.

A number of standard plastic tableware gatekeeper

Light, beautiful, strong and durable plastic tableware, once in winning consumers, especially parents of all ages, however, caused uproar this year, melamine tableware, people generally feel worried about the safety of plastic tableware. “Children are used in small plastic bottles, plastic bowls, and even the spoons are plastic, and now I threw them all.” Consumers Ms Lau told reporters, for fear of glass, ceramic tableware, after breaking injury to the children, she gave the child the use of plastic products, can be seen after the relevant reports have been regretted.
This reporter learned that, since September 1, the “food containers, packaging materials used melamine – formaldehyde moldings and health standards” into effect. The new standard not only provides raw melamine – formaldehyde resin in the recommended conditions, should be the release of substances harmful to health, and any other additives should be added to meet the requirements. Detection of physical and chemical indicators of health, but also increased the amount of melamine monomer migration determination of carcinogens formaldehyde limit value of an older standard for doubled. In addition, the new identification requirements, the more explicit requirements for labeling products materials, and to inform the “food with” and “non-heating in a microwave oven use” packaging requirements should be clearly marked “food with” and indicate the manufacturer , product names, conditions of use, material type and so on.

“Plastic disposable tableware General technical requirements” will also come into effect on December 1,2009, the standard disposable tableware on the scope of a clear definition of: disposable tableware is expected to dining or similar purposes, including a one-time use The lunch boxes, plates, dishes, knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, bowls, cups, cans, pots, straw, etc., but also includes a one-time child care outside the lining tableware, but does not include meals without the expected purpose or similar purposes food packaging materials, such as fresh food trays, yogurt cups, jelly cups and so on. Meanwhile, the technical requirements for such products, testing methods, inspection rules and product identification, packaging, transportation, storage requirements are carried out detailed provisions.

Ink used will also be restricted

Can the fries fell on the food tray pad of paper, which has aroused people’s concern, but to do so, what specific hazards, people do not fully understand. August 1, 2009 come into operation on the “composite packaging with plastic film, bags of dry compound, extrusion compound” will replace “boiling-resistant composite films, bags” and “bi-oriented polypropylene film / low-density polyethylene composite film , bags. ” The new standard will be solvent residue from the original target ≤ 10 mg per square meter was revised to ≤ 5 mg
per square meter, of which benzene solvent residue from the original ≤ 3 mg per square meter per square meter was revised to “0.01 mg ( that is, not detected). This food packaging printing ink standards put forward higher requirements for basic and related standards in developed countries converge on the health of consumers will be more secure.

China has implemented a “green food packaging generic guidelines” clearly provides that packaged food products does not allow the use of plastic foam polystyrene, polyurethane and other materials; green food packaging material used should be explicit instructions and re-use, recycling instructions and the green signs; green food packaging printing, the ink or adhesive labeling to be non-toxic, and should not be direct contact with food.

These standards will be fundamental to the food packaging, especially the green food packaging strict specifications in order to enhance their safety. The reason why I refer in particular to green packaging, because consumers pay attention to green itself, often overlooked, while creating new packaging for its pollution, so that organic foods become “contaminated food products.”

Can be found in some supermarkets, and many vegetables are green logo affixed, and carried out according to the weight of an independent packaging. However, these packages while using biodegradable plastic wrap, but the food trays are disposable plastic products; many have been cut fruit platter, also harmful to human health, using pairs of disposable foam plastic retaining net wrapped; while a considerable number of affixed high-quality rice, green label, but also the use of harmful plastic bags packed.

According to experts, is currently a lot of grain, vegetables and other food products used in plastic bags, plastic trays, the material is PVC, not only toxic to humans and cause pollution to the environment after use. In another example, some businesses had extensive use of whitening paper for food packaging. The paper in the production process, in order to improve its whiteness, most are used for very toxic to humans and animals of the fluorescent whitening agent for processing. It is particularly worth mentioning is that now there are many businesses prefer to use colored wrapping paper, resulting in pollution, more insidious. Colored wrapping paper containing benzene exceeded the color ink, if direct contact with food, you may directly endanger human health. Therefore, the green must prevent excessive benzene containing a color ink-printed “green bag.”

Industry insiders believe that without the need to change the traditional production technology at the same time, it is necessary to solve the green packaging ink and color printing process of benzene exceeded the issue, but also reduce on-site deployment of raw materials caused by waste and poisoning incidents occur, while improving the utilization of raw materials, lower production costs, reduce business risk, the best way is in accordance with GB-9685 standard, allowing only horse anhydride modified polypropylene and polyurethane adhesive is used in food trays packaging among and with benzene as solvent, a single-component pressure-sensitive adhesive must not be allowed to use. In other words, benzene printing technology should be the direction of green food packaging, packaging, food safety process from the perspective of enterprises, through technical improvements, from the source of packaging materials to achieve non-toxic harmless.