Milk powder trans-fatty acid standards consistent with foreign countries

On July 10, the National Health and Family Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a regular press conference to introduce the work related to food safety standards. Wang Zhutian, assistant director of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, said that the Chinese standard is the same as the international standard for trans-fatty acid in milk powder.

The following is a dialogue record:

Hong Kong Asian TV reporter:

Wang Zhutian's researcher just explained that trans fatty acids found in the detection of milk powder are very normal because they are naturally produced. However, does natural production have no effect on the health of humans or babies? If so, can we explain that trans fatty acids have no effect on the human body? In addition, are there any trans-fatty acids found in foreign milk powder imported? Thank you.

Wang Zhutian:

We said the first question, just mentioned trans fatty acids in milk powder or infant formula, there are two main sources: First, the use of hydrogenated vegetable oil in the process; the second is the existence of natural food. Hydrogenated vegetable oils containing trans fatty acids have been banned from use in the standard. With regard to natural trans-fatty acids, there is no scientific literature available so far that it can be demonstrated that natural trans-fatty acids can have a negative impact on human health. This is from a scientific perspective. However, from the perspective of prevention, in the process of trans fatty acid production, in addition to natural, there will be in the process of processing, so in order to protect the health of infants and young children, in our standard, there must be no more than 3% of the provisions This is basically the case in the world. The International Food Control Council also uses this value as a limit standard for trans-fatty acids. Therefore, our Chinese standards and international standards are the same. Thank you.