Is it illegal to add hydrogen peroxide to food?
With common common foods such as garlic, apple peel, Chinese wolfberry, spinach stem head, apricot leaves, red cabbage leaves, coca fermentation broth, pig liver, pig blood ingredients, and may have residual hydrogen peroxide food cook or Soaked in water, there is the effect of reducing residual hydrogen peroxide. These substances due to ferrous iron composition, can break down the food residues of hydrogen peroxide into water. While at the same time divalent ferrous iron, is the role of trivalent iron
As China's current health food management and norms there are loopholes, the scope of food additives to supplement is not timely, which led to the introduction of 1996, "food additives use health standards" (GB2760-1996) added content has not been the content , Of course, including the use of hydrogen peroxide and so on. Due to the specific use of hydrogen peroxide range, many people even the relevant departments that hydrogen peroxide can not be used in health food varieties, but can not remain in the product; for the product of hydrogen peroxide residues did not define a Standards and safety.
GB2760-1996 (-2002) stipulates that: hydrogen peroxide can be used as food additives, but can only be used for fresh milk and bag tofu, raw milk preservation limited to Heilongjiang , The use of Inner Mongolia, while in the bag tofu project, no residue, the use of hydrogen in other foods must be strictly approved by the Ministry of Health.
