Professional personnel and help analyze. Such as chrome plated stainless steel barbecue utensils, after heating, direct contact with food, will cause a harm to human body?
On the surface of the chrome plated metal chromium is harmless. In electroplating process and chromium plating product will rinse several times, to product the parts above, the amount of chromium salt may remain in fact very little. Metal chromium almost do not produce harmful effect to human body, did not see cause industrial poisoning have been reported. Enters the body of the chromium is accumulated in the body's tissues, metabolism and removed at a slow pace. Metal chromium acid in general with surface passivation for its characteristics, once after passivation, namely easy to dissolve in almost all of the inorganic acid, but not soluble in nitric acid. Chromium is soluble in sulfuric acid, and is not easy to dissolve in nitric acid. Six price chromium is poisonous.
Small toxicity, chrome plated tableware is not completely harmless, but it does not affect use. The right amount of chromium can rise to adjust the metabolism of sugar and cholesterol in the human body, chromium content is too little, can cause blood vessel wall fat deposition, make originally elastic normal blood vessels gradually hardening, is a factor which causes hardening of the arteries. But when the chromium content too much, can damage the body organs such as lung, and cause lesions, is recognized as one of carcinogenic factors. So reasonable mix with a variety of dishes is the right way.
I know only 18/8 and 18/10 are harmless. The knife is made of 18/10 of the stainless steel.
