The Hazards Of Poor Quality PVC Cling Film
Mar 15, 2023
The latest authoritative tests show that 15 of the 16 branded PVC Cling Film commonly available in the Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou markets contain the state-banned plasticizer DEHA. This plasticizer can seep from plastic wrap into fatty foods at room temperature, causing great harm to the endocrine system.
First, lead to infertility
Food safety expert Dong Jinshi told reporters that the state-permitted plasticizers are generally relatively stable at room temperature, but the state-banned DEHA can be released from PVC Cling Film at room temperature and leach into the food, especially when wrapping fatty food. The main harm of this plasticizer is to affect the endocrine system of the human body, leading to the increase of female hormone secretion, male hormone secretion reduction, that is, female precocious puberty, male infertility, especially on the genital development of infants and young children has a great impact.
2. Excessive harm
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued a notice as early as 2005 that highlighted the prohibition on the production of PVC Cling Film for food with DEHA. Beijing Kai Fa environmental protection technology advisory Center recently respectively from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou three places to buy all brands of PVC plastic wrap on the market, a total of 16 brands, sent to the national authority testing institutions, the test results are shocking - 15 kinds of plastic wrap contain the national ban on the use of DEHA. Among them, the lowest exceeds the detection line 98 times, the highest exceeds the detection line 472 times, the average exceeds the detection line more than 200 times.
Three, industry fog
Fifteen of the 16 brands of Cling Film contain the state-banned plasticizer DEHA. Months of investigation by journalists have uncovered layers of fog surrounding the PVC Cling Film production, behind which lies are being laid involving the cling film industry and the chemicals industry upstream.
According to the official announcement of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the plasticizer allowed in the production process of PVC plastic wrap is DOA. A reporter's investigation in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places also found that the material used by four plastic wrap manufacturers that tested positive for plasticizers banned by the state was indeed labeled as DOA. Interviewed in Jiangsu, in Wuxi new Di paper Plastic Products Co., Ltd. and Taicang Junshijie Packaging Materials Co., Ltd. production workshop have seen the same enterprise DOA raw material bucket, raw material bucket marked with Tongxiang Chemical Co., Ltd. production.







