The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the consumption of mooncakes is gradually heating up. Provincial Consumers Association has issued a consumption reminder. Due to the implementation of the new national food additive standards, the shelf life of moon cakes in this autumn generally does not exceed 60 days, which is much shorter than before. Consumers must look at the shelf life when buying moon cakes. . The newly implemented National Food Safety Standard for Food Additives (GB2760-2011), which was newly implemented on June 20th, is generally considered to be one of the important reasons for the change in mooncakes. Then, what are the changes in the use of food additives between the old and new standards?


The new standard additives for food additives disappeared last month. The KFC and Ajisen Ramen problems have harmed consumers' hearts. Food safety and health issues have once again become the focus of attention of all parties. In June of this year, after the introduction of the new national “Food Additive Use Standard”, it was explicitly forbidden to add 27 types of additives such as sweeteners and chemical synthetic pigments to foods.

The reporter saw on the moon cake packaging bag in the supermarket that the ingredient list did have a lot of ingredients missing. The moon cakes returned to the most common ingredients. Components such as potassium nitrite had disappeared. It is understood that fruit-flavored moon cakes are not actually made from fresh fruit, and they are made up of ingredients such as flavors, spices, and pigments. These ingredients are all additive ingredients and are prohibited by the state.

The shelf life shortened The shelf life of most moon cakes this year has been significantly shortened. According to previous years, the shelf life of a moon cake has 60 to 90 days. Now, just pick up a few hot cakes on the market, the shelf life is 30 days to 60 days, more than 60 days of the moon cake market has been difficult to find.

According to reports, the reason for this is that moon cakes have reduced the additive components. The shortened shelf life of moon cakes is normal.

After the implementation of the new "Standard for the Use of Food Additives" in 2011, there are many types of preservatives that cannot be used for moon cake addition. Shen Wei, general manager of Shanghai Xiangteli Food Development Co., Ltd., said: "In fact, the progress of the process can be used instead of a portion of preservatives. For example, we stopped buying lotus paste with added bleaching powder a few years ago. Corrosion protection is also adopted." "External control method." That is, adding a deoxidizer to the package instead of directly adding a preservative to the moon cake."

Safety inspection measures need to be strengthened Industry insiders have revealed that generally through small-scale manufacturers, in order to control costs and extend shelf life, it is still achieved by adding a large amount of preservatives. It is understood that an 80-g mooncake packaged with a deoxidizer will cost 0.3 to 0.4 yuan more than moon cakes with preservatives. This is only one aspect of the difference between low-quality mooncakes and high-quality mooncakes. It is estimated that a moon cake produced with the minimum standard "pass line" and a high quality moon cake will only double the price difference of raw materials.

Regarding food shelf life, relevant experts said that the normative approach is that companies conduct multiple tests before new products are put on the market, and then carry out tests again after a certain period of time, and finally scientifically determine the shelf life. However, many small businesses do not do this. I have a few days of signing for others, and the arbitrariness is very large. The shelf life of foods is currently controlled by the company itself, and there is no mandatory regulation by the regulatory authorities. However, the supervision department will conduct sampling inspections on certain products when they are close to the expiration date to see whether they meet the required standards and whether they are out of date.

For a long time, the regulatory authorities have relied too much on testing methods. For example, certain additives for moon cakes are actually identified as if they were needles in a haystack if they were not identified in the ingredient list. “In daily supervision, quality supervision departments and other departments should pay attention to checking the company’s raw materials and purchase orders at the same time, and checking whether there is any difference between the incoming materials and the records of the raw materials and ingredients in the record, so as to ensure that the additives will not become 'slippery fish'. ."

Overall, the current development of the moon cake market is running well. With the rational consumption of consumers, production companies are maturing. The production of reliable moon cakes has become the consensus of the majority of manufacturers, and it is gradually becoming a self-discipline behavior of the entire industry. The entire industry has fully realized that integrity management is the foundation of the market economy and the foundation for the company's establishment. Product innovation is the road to success in the company's development. Safeguarding food safety actually guarantees the safety of the production company itself.