The Food and Drug Administration said that the green A lead has not exceeded the standard

Yesterday, the State Food and Drug Administration announced the results of the special supervision and inspection of heavy metals in health foods using Spirulina as raw material. Prior to exposure to heavy metals exceeded the Green A brand spirulina tablets, Tomson times brand Spirulina tablets and other lead products "in the supervision and inspection results did not exceed the national limit standards."

The Food and Drug Administration said that the results of the inspection also found three counterfeit health food products, namely Congas Spirulina Tablets, Australasia Green Classic Spirulina Tablets, and Hong Yang Shen Spirulina; Science and Technology Co., Ltd. produced a batch of lead and arsenic exceeding the limit standard for the batch of 20111214 batches of Happiness Brand Spirulina Tablets (Contrelis). The rest of the products are qualified.

Question one: How did Green A pass it?

Food and Drug Administration: Unqualified means "suspicious pending"

Although the Food and Drug Administration issued the above announcement yesterday, it still makes it difficult for many consumers to feel relieved. Before this test, the Food and Drug Administration issued a notice on February 29. The notice shows that the contents of lead, arsenic, and mercury in thirteen kinds of spirulina blue cap products such as Green A, Tomson Becken, and Tsinghua Unisplendour (Jin Ao Li) were all unacceptable. What was announced yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration was the result of retesting the 13 products.

In response, the person in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration said in an interview with reporters yesterday that the key to the problem lies in the understanding of "monitoring." The person in charge said that "monitoring" refers to the fact that according to the situation in the previous period and media reports, some products were listed as key supervision and inspection contents, and they were required to be monitored and tested. Therefore, "monitoring" is not the same as law enforcement inspection; "unqualified" discovered through "monitoring" refers to "suspiciously pending" rather than "unqualified" after scientific inspection.

Since it is "suspicious to be investigated", why is it written "unqualified" on paper? If the product really has no problem, will such expression cause misunderstanding and affect the reputation of the company and the product? In response, the person in charge said that the notice issued on February 29 was originally intended to be a notification of internal work, not an external document.

Question 2: Do you monitor the same batch of products?

Food and Drug Administration: Can not be specific to a batch of reporters noticed that the Food and Drug Administration did not disclose the specific lead content of 13 products twice. Only the second result announced the product specific batch. Is the "monitoring" unqualified batch and the current qualified "batch" the same batch? If different, will there be different batches of heavy metal content? How can consumer rights be guaranteed in the "swing" content?

In this regard, the responsible person reiterated that "monitoring" is not a law enforcement procedure. It can only be a bottom-up, a visit, and the focus of a job search. Therefore, it cannot be specific to a batch. The supervision and inspection carried out according to the focus of work is legally effective and can be punished if problems are found.

Question 3: Which standard should be adopted in the end?

Experts: Tablets have not been written into related standards. The Food and Drug Administration pointed out yesterday that the product with algae as the only raw material supplemented with a small amount of excipients has a lead quota of 2.0 mg/kg. In the national standard, the lead limit for solid beverages and capsule products using algae and tea as raw materials should be 2.0 mg/kg, and the general food lead limit should be 0.5 mg/kg.

Professor Li Keji of the School of Public Health of Peking University introduced that Green A Natural Spirulina Tablets are suitable for the standard of 2.0. Li Keji explained that due to the introduction of relevant standards in 1997, tablets should have been written in the back of the capsule but it has not been revised.

However, some experts said that the national standard was abolished in 2006, and some experts said that the spiral algae tablets are health foods and should adopt higher standards.