[Exclusivo]Surprised 25 Types of Organic Rice Also Contains Cadmium, Exceeding the Maximum Consumption Standard for Infants and Young Children by 9.25 Times | Apple News | Apple Daily

The Consumer Foundation recently announced a sample of 20 non-staple foods for infants and toddlers and found 4 cases of heavy metal cadmium that exceeded the standard. Among them, the nutritious Wangzai Pure Rice Cakes produced by Yilan Foods, a subsidiary of Want Want Group, used domestic rice purchased by the Food and Agriculture Administration. A large number of parents have concerns about the safety of public foods. Some people think it is safer to switch to organic rice for babies and young children. In this regard, the Council of Agriculture admitted that organic rice can also contain heavy metals, but it must also meet the standards.

“Apple News” is for consumers to consult the information website of the Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and search for “organic” by product name or manufacturer name. Among 77 products, up to 25 organic rice inspection results outperform infants and toddlers. The standard limit of cadmium in food is 0.04 ppm, of which 0.37 ppm was detected in cadmium from organic white rice (indica) extracted from Cotton Tianshengjiyuan Co., Ltd. in 2005, which is 9, 25 times the standard for non-staple foods for babies and toddlers, but there are up to 33 products. Check out”.

According to the “Sanitary Standards for Contaminants and Toxins in Food”, the limit for cadmium in complementary cereal foods for infants and young children and non-staple foods for infants and young children is 0.04 ppm. The Consumer Foundation recently announced the results of random inspections, including those of “Yifeng Brown Rice Bran” and “Wangzai Nutrition.” Four items, including “Pure Rice Cakes,” “Sanli Ruer Rice Cakes,” and “Rice Cakes, Xijiayuan rice (brown rice) “, contained cadmium between 0.05 and 0.3 ppm, which can exceed the standard by almost 7 times; For Wangzai’s pure and nutritious rice cakes, Yilan Foods pointed out that the rice cakes use domestically produced rice purchased by the Food and Agriculture Administration.

Yesterday the Ministry of Agriculture held a press conference to explain that the controversy on this occasion is that some businesses use rice raw materials for infants and young children as by-products. These four products are still being verified as supplied to common people or exclusively infants and young children. From the association’s point of view, the rice provided by the public food is for general consumption, and it is willing to help the industry to make special rice for non-staple foods for babies and young children. This news also causes online parent groups to instantly fry the pot and argue that buying rice is for the whole family. If it is provided for babies and young children to cook porridge or cook directly in white rice, some people think it is safer to switch to organic rice.

Some PTT netizens mentioned on the gossip page that the Food and Drug Administration has an open platform for food and medicine, which includes a data collection of monitoring and inspection results for heavy metals in rice. From 1999 to 107, all rice on the market was compliant with rice. The standard limit of 0.4 ppm for cadmium of heavy and medium metals; If the cadmium standard is increased to 0.04 ppm, 1108 of the 1697 items comply and 589 items are non-compliant, the non-compliance rate reaches 34.7%; if the name of the product or the name of the manufacturer is used to query “organic Of the 78 items in” Mi “, 52 are met and 26 are not. The non-compliance rate is 33.3%.

According to information from the Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Taiwan Public Information Network, “Apple” searched for “organic” and got information on 77 products from 99 to 108 years old. If marked according to the standard of 0.04 ppm of non-basic infant food, a total of 25 The product exceeds 0.04 ppm.

Most of these products come from familiar channels, such as Quanlian, Liren, Farmers’ Association, Cotton Field Organic Garden, etc. Among them, 0.37ppm cadmium was sampled in organic white rice (indica) from Cotton Field Organic Garden Co., Ltd. in 2015., which is 9.25 times higher than the standard 0.04ppm non-staple baby food and young children, but there are also up to 33 products that have not detected cadmium.

During the interview, Chen Junji, vice president of the Council of Agriculture, stressed that the rice produced by the Council of Agriculture is for the common people of the country. In the case of infants and young children, manufacturers can only be expected to adopt a more rigorous attitude to make them meet the standards of the Ministry of Health and Welfare; To put it bluntly, organic rice and general heavy metal standards are the same, and the standard for cadmium is 0.4 ppm.

Chen Junji said that organic rice is relatively safer than ordinary rice because there will be more rigorous testing of the water and soil, and no chemical fertilizers or pesticides will be used. However, because soil has some background values, not all soils are free of heavy metal residues. Unlike pesticides, heavy metals are not added during planting, but farmers must spray the pesticides, which means that any field has a chance of exceeding the standard due to farmers’ use. However, heavy metals have a history of soil and contamination from factory discharge water. regional.

So can organic rice contain heavy metals too? Chen Junji emphasized once again that “heavy metals are also possible”, but the heavy metal content meets the standard. He explained that the soil has a background value. If the heavy metal exceeds the 0.4ppm standard, it will be controlled, but if it does not exceed the standard, it will not be within the safe range. Control, there are some myths in the outside world, all security must be zero. “It is almost impossible to find soil without any heavy metal content.”

(Chen Yiwen / Taipei Report)