Coca-Cola clarified preservative event for McDonald's Cup drinks

Recently, according to media reports, a group of Coca-Cola Beverage company from Shanghai, the zero-coke liquid main ingredient in Taiwan's "health Department Food and Drug Administration" to test the preservative "methyl benzoate", each kg containing 2.062 grams, for the local prohibition of mixing in carbonated beverages in the material. In response, the Greater China region of Coca-Cola has responded. The company's public affairs and communications ministry said in a statement issued to this newspaper yesterday: "The preservative in Taiwan is one of the safety additives recognized by food laws and regulations in many countries and regions (including China, Hong Kong and the United States), and is widely accepted for safe use in food and beverage categories, But local laws in Taiwan do not allow the use of soda. "For the use of this batch of" methyl P-hydroxybenzoate "Cola liquid, Coca-Cola said it will be used for the current adjustment machine, that is, McDonald's and other fast food outlets sold Cup beverage products, but must be in the current modulation machine after dilution can be sold outside, diluted P-hydroxybenzoate concentration is very small, Only 0.015 mg per kg. According to Coca-Cola, the detected methyl p-hydroxybenzoate is naturally brought in some manufacturing materials of the condensed liquid of the current machine, not deliberately added. It is reported that these contain P-hydroxybenzoic acid methyl ester of zero coke in addition to McDonald's in the sale of fast food outlets, but also in some shopping malls, stores have sales.　　Coca-Cola also stressed that the market on the sale of prepackaged cans and plastic bottles of zero Coke does not contain methyl P-hydroxybenzoate. McDonald's, which is involved in the matter, also issued a statement yesterday saying that McDonald's selected food materials for timely monitoring and validation to ensure that the products entered the restaurant to meet safety standards.　　McDonald's Restaurant is in the sale of the cup of Zero Coke in line with the state-related food standards. The addition of a small amount of methyl P-hydroxybenzoate will not cause harm. National Certification Committee Food Safety Management System Accreditation Reviewer Huyuchen said, methyl P-hydroxybenzoate is an internationally recognized broad-spectrum type of highly effective food preservative, which can play a better role in sterilization and safety in the solution of ph value 3 to 8. It is reported that China's food industry has begun to use this kind of preservatives as early as 2001, Europe and the United States, Japan and other countries have been widely used in food, beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and textiles and other fields. At present, according to China's "food additive use of health standards", methyl p-hydroxybenzoate can be added to carbonated beverages, the maximum use of 0.2 grams/kg. Taiwan test samples are undiluted concentrated liquid, but the public drink is diluted products, diluted P-hydroxybenzoic acid methyl ester content in line with the relevant standards.　　However, Huyuchen said that recent studies abroad have shown that methyl p-hydroxybenzoate has potential estrogen activity and may be a kind of environmental endocrine disruptors. Reporter yesterday in Nanjing East Road supermarket randomly purchased a few bottles of cans and bottled "zero Coca-Cola" soda, these products marked with "caramel, phosphoric acid, sodium benzoate, aspartame, Ansai honey, sodium citrate, caffeine, sucrose"And so on, did not appear the Taiwan side of the detection of P-hydroxybenzoic acid methyl ester. The reporter then visited a number of the use of the current adjustment machine to sell cups Coca-Cola catering service units, found that the current adjustment of the cup drinks are not identified with the ingredients. A restaurant chief of a Hotpot restaurant told reporters that the original slurry used by the machine is provided unilaterally by Coca-Cola, only know that the original slurry into the machine will be with pure water according to a certain proportion of modulation, in order to make the external sale of the cup-like beverage, but the original slurry and water ratio, the original slurry contains additives are not clear, "usually a press is a cup, Do not have the original slurry to call the supplier to renew, the others did not consider so much. Coca-Cola said that the state regulation only prepackaged beverages need to be identified, the current adjustment of the cup drinks are not in the list. (Reporter Chen Yu shakes)