The host said: Good afternoon, netizens and distinguished guests. Today is a special day, March 15th, which is a festival for consumers to protect their rights and interests. Today, the topic of our interview is to protect themselves from the problems of drugs and food safety. Some netizens said: "It is fatal to be able to enter. One is food, and the other is medicine. If you are sick and don't eat, you may have to see' the king of hell'." This sounds straightforward, but it reflects the most direct voice of consumers on food safety issues. Last year, there was the problem of inferior milk powder, the problem of poisonous vermicelli, and recently it was the focus topic of Sudan Red, all of which were related to food safety. Of course, we have also encountered drug safety problems such as misleading health care products and abuse of antibacterial drugs. In order to help consumers solve these problems correctly and achieve safe and healthy living conditions, we specially invited experts from China Consumer Guidance Department, food safety experts and drug evaluation experts to talk with netizens about how to ensure their safe life. First, please ask the experts to introduce themselves.
Wang Gongli said: Hello, I'm Wang Gongli, the chief pharmacist of China OTC Drug Association.
He Jiguo said: Hello, I'm He Jiguo, professor of the Department of Nutrition and Safety, College of Food Science, China Agricultural University.
Ren Jing said: I am Ren Jing, deputy director of the Consumer Guidance Department of China Consumers Association.
Food safety has always been at the top of the consumption list.
The host said: First, let's ask Ren Jing, deputy director of the guidance department of China Consumers Association, to talk about the current complaints about drug and food safety. What are the main areas?
Ren Jing said: As far as hot issues of complaints are concerned, drug safety is ranked third. From the safety surveys conducted by China Consumers Association for many times, food safety has always been at the top of the list, and now the complaint rate related to food is relatively high.
The main problems are the quality of food. The quality includes food poisoning caused by the pollution of some foods, adulteration in the middle of food, food packaging, labels, some production dates, such as secretly modifying the production date before the expiration date to sell it to consumers, and some business premises are in a bad environment, which has great food safety hazards, except for Sudan Red No.1, which is often reported in the media, which consumers can't understand even after using it.
Health care products can't cure diseases, so don't believe it blindly.
The host said: Just now, Director Ren talked about the hot issue of food reaction. Today, we invited Professor Wang, an old expert who has been studying drugs for many years. There are similar problems in drugs, and the netizens' reaction is more concentrated on the misleading problem of health care products. Please ask Professor Wang to talk about this.
Wang Gongli said: As for health care products, because health care products are not medicines, they are not produced by pharmaceutical factories. We say that all medicines produced by pharmaceutical factories must pass GMP certification now, so the quality of medicines is relatively reliable. The requirements of health care products are not so strict. On the one hand, another promotion of health care products, manufacturers have made some unrealistic advertisements in order to expand its market.
Let me give you an example. Everyone knows, for example, oral liquid, a health care product, is called ferrous lactate oral liquid. As we all know, we can see a picture on national television. Many old ladies are playing and dancing on the beach. A middle-aged woman said that this old man is in such good health. These old ladies replied, "We have been in good health in Hainan Island for two weeks because we ate blood-enriching oral liquid.". This is misleading consumers to buy this oral liquid to eat. Blood-enriching oral liquid is ferrous lactate. Who is this medicine for? It's for people with iron deficiency anemia, not patients with iron deficiency. Ordinary old ladies, like older women, don't have iron deficiency at all. Too much iron in the body can affect your blood pressure and aggravate coronary heart disease. What's more important is that the older people are a little senile, and some are mild. If you go out to play for half a month according to the advertisement, these old ladies will become more demented when they come back with Alzheimer's disease, so you can't publicize it like this. Propaganda can't exaggerate its role, and it should be responsible for the life safety of ordinary people.
The host said: How can consumers identify some potential misunderstandings?
Wang Gongli said: For consumers, it is usually self-medication like taking health care products. I think for the sake of safety, you should consult a pharmacist or a professional pharmacist when you buy it at a drugstore. He can guide you how to eat health care products. Therefore, we should consult first, and then after buying it, we should have a look at the production date and shelf life of the health care product. After you buy it, the health care products also have its instructions. You can read the instructions carefully. The standardized instructions should be realistic and cannot exaggerate its functions, especially the health care products cannot exaggerate its therapeutic functions. Therefore, people find that it is not credible to exaggerate publicity, and some say that health care products can cure tumors.
For example, recently it was said that Ganoderma lucidum spores can cure lung cancer, breast cancer and so on. This is impossible, so this kind of propaganda belongs to expansion. I hope that netizens will not listen to these exaggerated propaganda casually. In particular, it is extended to health care products, because health care products are only health care and cannot cure diseases, and it is unreliable to say that they can treat a certain disease and get immediate results. Therefore, I hope that everyone can buy some health care products with good credit and effective health care. Don't just follow the advertisers to buy them. After eating them, they will not only fail to play a health care role, but may also damage their health. For example, the blood-enriching oral liquid mentioned just now will definitely be harmful to the elderly.
The host said: China Consumers Association has also done some surveys on health care products. Would you please introduce the director?
Ren Jing said: Many consumers no longer believe in the function of health food. Recently, a survey conducted by the Shanghai Consumer Council indicated that 6% of consumers questioned the function of advertising, which all came from the exaggerated publicity of the health care product advertising industry. Recently, we collected more than 1 advertising instructions and publicity sheets published in shopping malls and media, and found that more than 7% of them exaggerated publicity, and only 26% complied with relevant laws and regulations.
This situation is easy for consumers to completely lose their objective understanding of health food. Often, health food will promote its auxiliary efficacy for a certain disease in advertising, which will make consumers have some unrealistic fantasies about the efficacy of health food. Some consumers even choose health food without taking medicine when they are sick, and finally they will have a lot of economic burden, and they will not be treated if they are sick.
China Consumers Association has refined eight tricks to guard against the falsity of health products
First, check the approval number of health food;
second, don't trust advertising language;
Third, don't believe the testimony of what effect Zhang San ate and what effect Li Si ate.
fourthly, don't trust the advertisements made by people wearing white coats;
Fifth, don't trust the propaganda of stars in advertisements;
Sixth, don't trust the percentage advertising;
Seventh, don't believe that there is no advertisement of hygienic food with hygienic batch number in TV direct selling, because some actors can be used in TV, and the fat, thin, beautiful and ugly can be changed;
Eighth, don't trust the products recommended by beauty salons with beauty effects. Some time ago, we found that beauty products can be used on the skin and some food can be eaten. We saw that the food is an ordinary food according to the word "Wei Shi", not a health food, but it is against the relevant laws and regulations of the state to promote its health care and beauty functions.
Ren Jing said: consumers should first have a basic concept about this phenomenon. They should be cautious about such propaganda methods, and don't believe it at first. Nowadays, many health foods go to the community, and many elderly people are invited to give lectures in white coats. The ultimate goal is to let the elderly treat their own diseases with this health food, which is harmful to consumers' right to know.
The host said: Thank you, Director Ren. I hope netizens can remember these eight tricks. Today, we are very happy to invite Professor He Jiguo, director of the Department of Food Safety of China Agricultural University. He has been studying food and nutrition for many years. We have just mentioned some problems about drugs, including its identification, and so on. In terms of food, especially the recent influence of Sudan Red, I also ask Professor He to talk to netizens and do some analysis.
food should not appear in the form of medicine
He Jiguo said: Professor Wang and Director Ren just said that health food is also food. When using health food, we should remember a very important point: health food is not a medicine, it can't cure any disease, and it's useless not to eat health food when you get sick. Health food can only play an auxiliary and adjusting role. Therefore, it's good to watch advertisements or publicize, as long as you treat any disease, don't pay attention to it.
In addition, the existing forms of health food are capsules, tablets, oral liquid, etc. I think health food is a food that should appear as a food, not as a medicine. Some people think that health food is medicine. In fact, I think health food should be a kind of food instead of medicine.
The host said: Japanese law stipulates that health food cannot appear in the form of powder or medicine.
He Jiguo said: We should learn from it at home now, but it is more difficult at home now.
The host said: This one needs to be improved.
With regard to food safety, I think everyone has experienced it personally in recent years. What do you think is wrong with China food? In fact, China's conclusion on food safety is much more advanced than in the past. Now that there are more supervision departments, some problematic foods can be found in time. In the 196s and 197s, the food problem in China was even more serious. Many children, especially in rural areas, almost had ascaris and suffered from dysentery every year. This must be a food safety problem.
from this point of view, we have made great progress now. At that time, the inspection equipment may not be developed, and even if there is, it will not be detected. Of course, we can't cover up the problems that appear now. In the past, there was a lot of biological pollution. People or consumers, even myself, felt that biological pollution was really harmful, but sometimes it was an excusable harm from the heart, because the existence of this microorganism was ubiquitous, and we would have it if we didn't pay attention.
At present, people find it hard to believe, or forgive, that there are many harmful substances in food. We know that they are harmful, but in order to improve the sensory quality or look, some people even deliberately aggravate the harmful substances, which is unforgivable, because we can avoid them, and this is unforgivable. Or sometimes in order to increase its output, we overuse some items, which is also the most angry thing for everyone at present.
However, there is also a phenomenon of improvement, because, after all, food has made great progress in recent years, and there are more and more enterprises in this field. It used to be easy to manage several companies, but now most of them are scattered and numerous. Maybe nine out of ten families are law-abiding, and one of them is exposed, so maybe everyone thinks they can't eat it. Tomorrow, we will say that pig farmers will not eat pork. In fact, most of them are still good, but a few have caused this phenomenon.
It's not that everyone fakes alcohol, such as Fenjiu. I think Fenjiu won't fake it, or there are other fakes. So now the country's management in this area is getting more and more perfect, and I believe it will get better and better. Of course, these problems need everyone's concerted efforts to solve. Many times people ask me, how do we identify hazardous substances, or are there any additives exceeding the standard or other hazardous ingredients here? It is difficult for us to answer this question. Because we can't tell.
Because it is sometimes difficult to detect the internal components of food, let alone distinguish them with the naked eye. Yesterday, I saw comrades in the newspaper industry and commerce teach you some methods to identify harmful food, which is very good, but I think ordinary people, even experts, can't tell the difference, and some things are invisible to the naked eye. Therefore, the country may need to crack down on this area. This is what we want to see criminals do some forgery, adulteration or excessive addition of some harmful ingredients. Sudan red is hot recently, but don't be afraid. It is an industrial fuel, especially used in medicine, such as dyeing and so on. For example, it is sometimes used in cancer diagnosis. The following contents can be used for your reference:
The host said: Good afternoon, netizens and distinguished guests. Today is a special day, March 15th, which is a festival for consumers to protect their rights and interests. Today, the topic of our interview is to protect themselves from the problems of drugs and food safety. Some netizens said: "It is fatal to be able to enter. One is food, and the other is medicine. If you are sick and don't eat, you may have to see' the king of hell'." This sounds straightforward, but it reflects the most direct voice of consumers on food safety issues. Last year, there was the problem of inferior milk powder, the problem of poisonous vermicelli, and recently it was the focus topic of Sudan Red, all of which were related to food safety. Of course, we have also encountered drug safety problems such as misleading health care products and abuse of antibacterial drugs. In order to help consumers solve these problems correctly and achieve safe and healthy living conditions, we specially invited experts from China Consumer Guidance Department, food safety experts and drug evaluation experts to talk with netizens about how to ensure their safe life. First, please ask the experts to introduce themselves.
Wang Gongli said: Hello, I'm Wang Gongli, the chief pharmacist of China OTC Drug Association.
He Jiguo said: Hello, I'm He Jiguo, professor of the Department of Nutrition and Safety, College of Food Science, China Agricultural University.
Ren Jing said: I am Ren Jing, deputy director of the Consumer Guidance Department of China Consumers Association.
Food safety has always been at the top of the consumption list.
The host said: First, let's ask Ren Jing, deputy director of the guidance department of China Consumers Association, to talk about the current complaints about drug and food safety. What are the main areas?
Ren Jing said: As far as hot issues of complaints are concerned, drug safety is ranked third. From the safety surveys conducted by China Consumers Association for many times, food safety has always been at the top of the list, and now the complaint rate related to food is relatively high.
The main problems are the quality of food. The quality includes food poisoning caused by the pollution of some foods, adulteration in the middle of food, food packaging, labels, some production dates, such as secretly modifying the production date before the expiration date to sell it to consumers, and some business premises are in a bad environment, which has great food safety hazards, except for Sudan Red No.1, which is often reported in the media, which consumers can't understand even after using it.
Health care products can't cure diseases, so don't believe blindly.
The host said: Just now, Director Ren talked about the hot issue of food reaction. Today, we invited Professor Wang, an old expert who has been studying drugs for many years. There are similar problems in drugs, and the netizens' reaction is more concentrated on the misleading problem of health care products. Please talk to Professor Wang.