Food industry is inseparable from food additives. However, improper or excessive addition of food additives sometimes occurs, even adding non edible substances, which seriously affects food safety. Pony Penney testing group can test food additives and non edible substances according to external standards, and is also constantly studying the detection methods of new emerging non edible substances, such as cyanuric acid detection, Sudan red and other detection methods.
Food additive is a kind of compound or natural substance added into food to improve the quality of food such as color, aroma and taste, as well as the need of antisepsis and processing technology. At present, there are more than 1000 kinds of food additives. However, many enterprises will over add or abuse food additives, or even add non edible substances, which seriously affect food safety.
The Ministry of health of the people's Republic of China has taken it as an important task to investigate and deal with illegal addition of non edible substances and food additives that are easy to be abused. The Ministry of health formulated the list of non edible substances that may be illegally added into food and food additives that are easy to be abused, and carried out a wide range of spot checks and tests on melamine, β - lactamase, potassium bromate and other non edible substances.
As a food testing agency, pony testing group can detect food additives and illegal non edible substances by relying on technology and equipment to ensure food safety. Pony pony testing group was selected into the "list of food testing institutions that can detect melamine", and it is also a testing institution with two laboratories (Beijing headquarters laboratory and Shanghai Laboratory) listed in the list.
Detection of food additives and non edible substancesproject：
Test items | Project content | |
food additives | Sweetener | Saccharin sodium, sodium cyclamate, sweetener, xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, etc |
preservative | Sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, natamycin, calcium propionate, rapamycin, Monomethyl Fumarate, etc | |
antioxidant | Propyl gallate (PG), tertiary butyl hydroxyanisole (BHA), 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-cresol (BHT), tert butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ), etc | |
bleaching agents | Sulfite, sulfur dioxide, etc | |
Organic acids | Oxalic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, formic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, succinic acid | |
pigment | Synthetic pigments: amaranth, rouge, lemon yellow, sunset yellow and indigo, etc Natural pigments: Curcumin, safflower yellow, capsicum, shellac pigment, red koji rice, soy sauce, beet red, copper chlorophyllin sodium salt and β - carotene, etc | |
Thickening agent | Gelatin, sodium caseinate, gum Arabic, tamarind polysaccharide gum, sesbania gum, agar, sodium alginate, carrageenan, pectin, xanthan gum, β - cyclodextrin, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, sodium starch phosphate, sodium carboxymethyl starch, hydroxypropyl starch, and propylene glycol alginate (PGA) | |
Emulsifier | Fatty acid monoglyceride, sucrose ester, sorbitol, soybean phospholipid, lauric acid monoglyceride, propylene glycol fatty acid ester, etc | |
Moisturizer | Tripolyphosphate, polyphosphate | |
Non edible substances | Melamine, clenbuterol hydrochloride, ractopamine, salbutamol, diethylstilbestrol, antidote, Sudan red (No. 1-4), sodium bisulfate formaldehyde (sodium bisulfite), basic orange II (King's gold, block yellow), boric acid, borax, sodium thiocyanate, art green, malachite green and crystal violet, basic tender yellow, acid orange, rose red (rhodamine) B, Industrial formaldehyde, industrial use With caustic soda, carbon monoxide, sodium sulfide, industrial sulfur, industrial dyes, poppy shell, leather hydrolysate, potassium bromate, Magnolia enzyme preparation, dimethyl fumarate, animal protein hydrolysate, thiocyanate, etc | |
