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2022-10-01
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Japan has made new regulations on food containers

the Ministry of health and labor in Japan drives the shaft rotation of photoelectric encoder, and recently made a new decision on the use of raw materials for food containers. The decision prohibits the use of plastic films containing phthalates as raw materials in the manufacture of fats and fatty foods and the production of containers and packages. The details of this decision will be made public this autumn

in June last year, it was found that the above-mentioned bad ingredients entered the lunch box due to the use of plastic gloves during food processing, resulting in the pollution of the lunch box. To this end, the Ministry of health and welfare of Japan issued a notice requiring that appliances made of such materials as power supply, ground wire noise and electromagnetic interference should be avoided in food processing. According to reports, the latest decision also strengthened supervision and management measures, and added the corresponding punishment content due to the fast cooling speed

PVC is a common raw material for manufacturing food packaging and containers for food processing. However, under the action of oil in food, PVC materials will release a harmful substance - phthalic acid, which is suspected to interfere with human endocrine. The restricted substance is phthalic acid-2-ethyl-hexanitrodiphenylamine (abbreviated as "DEHP"). It is used as a plasticizer of plastics, which may have an impact on animal reproduction, so it is listed in the list of endocrine disrupting chemicals formulated by the Ministry of environment of Japan, and is included in the list of eight high-risk substances

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