How dare you drink milk?

In an interview at the end of last year, a reporter asked me to "predict" the food safety incidents that could be burst next year, taking into account China's more agricultural retail investors, high regulatory costs, but with the popularity of testing equipment and attention, the original problem will be no conditions to investigate the surface. "Potential" problems should be in the existing testing standards, but the implementation of lax supervision of agricultural and sideline products, did not think, voice did not fall, Mengniu had an accident. Its milk was found to contain carcinogenic substances in the news, a short period of time was fired uproar. Aqsiq announced the results of some of the food sampling, mengniu a batch of milk due to aflatoxin exceeded, was listed in the publicity list, which a stone stirred thousand layers of waves. Aflatoxin is a strong carcinogen, especially for the patients with hepatitis B and other viral hepatitis is more likely to induce liver cancer, so has long been the World Health Organization as category I carcinogens. All countries have a limited standard of aflatoxin in food, for aflatoxin M1 in milk, China's national standard limit and the United States, Japan, the same as 0.5 micrograms/kg, Mengniu is not qualified milk aflatoxin content is 1.2 micrograms/kg, exceeding 140%. Ford this incident on the same day I have written analysis, the cause of the incident is probably due to the cows eat substandard moldy feed, feed of aflatoxin into the milk caused by. Aflatoxin has more than 20 species, the feed of aflatoxin B1 is the most common and most harmful, it has about 3%-11% into milk in the aflatoxin M1. The speculation was confirmed by relevant authorities after more than 10 media reports. Mengniu spokesman said that as a business they can not regulate to each dairy farmers, so it is impossible to ensure that the milk source is fully qualified, this batch of products have not been formally factory, it should still be through the last inspection check out, so the factory pass rate will still be 100%. This is a strong excuse to sound really reasonable, but the actual still shows that the management of enterprises have hidden dangers. The M1 of aflatoxin in milk is a recognized problem in the industry. China has a lot of research in the 80 's, but unfortunately, because aflatoxin is light resistant, acid-resistant and high temperature, it can only be cracked if it needs to be 299 degrees Celsius. Therefore, ordinary pasteurization, ultra-high temperature instantaneous sterilization and even family boiling disinfection can not be effective in the absence of damage to milk quality under the premise of the elimination of this toxin, there is no industrial production in the world to remove aflatoxin effective means. The core of the various precautions is to reduce the number of toxins from the source as far as possible, such as controlling aflatoxin B1 in feeds and so on. According to Mengniu, they will also be tested before the factory. But since aflatoxin in the production process can not be effectively removed, why not buy raw milk from the dairy farmers when the direct detection? To know according to national standards, raw milk and the production of fresh milk aflatoxin standard is the same, if the acquisition of substandard testing, enterprises are entitled to refuse, so the cost is not lower? There is a plausible "conspiracy theory" about this: Aspergillus nigerToxins are costly to detect and may even harm a tester's body, so no one wants to measure them often. From the milk farmers there can not be acquired from the milk is all over the limit, so only the quality of the customs clearance of milk mixed together, the natural aflatoxin exceeded the likelihood of greatly reduced. Even if the final test is still exceeding the standard, it does not matter, and so on, find some test indicators of fine milk mix, until the final clearance. How else would you explain aflatoxin on the last test? Of course, it's just a story with no evidence to support it. Mengniu Milk After the incident, consumers are most concerned about: we still want to drink milk? My answer is: if you give up milk from then on, the daily reasonable standard of nutrient intake is difficult to achieve, milk is a more ideal food. It contains about 3% protein and fat, calcium content in 100mg/100g above, and very easy to absorb, as well as vitamin A, vitamin D and some bioactive substances. Every day an egg, a bag of milk is basically the majority of nutritionists out of the diet must include two things, it is important. If you really worry about the quality and safety of milk, do not drink milk to consider what to replace. In 300g, milk has nearly 10g of high-quality protein, almost equivalent to one or two lean meat, which seems to be relatively easy to add. and 300mg of calcium can not be easily replaced, although green vegetables, soy products can be supplemented with some calcium, but the milk in the calcium absorption efficiency is still the highest. All said bone soup calcium, in fact, the general bone soup can dissolve a very small amount of calcium, or even the same concentration and tap water, absorption rate is very low. So for consumers, or don't get rid of the habit of drinking milk, although this is a very "helpless" choice.