A high-end western-style fried goose liver in Xiamen was covered with purple chips covered with gold foil. Why was the restaurant closed down?

Recently, Ms. Chen and her friends in Xiamen ordered a pan-fried goose liver in an upscale western restaurant. After the meal, the waiter brought a pan-fried goose liver with a layer of dried purple potato chips covered with a layer of golden gold paper. Ms. Chen was surprised and asked the waiter if it was edible. After receiving a positive answer from the waiter, Ms. Chen and her friends shared the goose liver with the golden purple potato chips. Afterwards, Ms. Chen mentioned this when chatting with a friend. The friend said that gold foil was forbidden to eat. Only then did Ms. Chen know, so she called the local market supervision department, and the local market supervision department immediately attacked, found out the gold paper that had not been used up in this high-end restaurant, and punished this high-end restaurant according to law.

At the beginning of this year, the relevant state departments issued regulations requiring that gold and silver foil powder should not be used in the production and processing of food, and that edible gold and silver foil powder should not be added to food. This high-end western restaurant added gold and silver foil powder to food even though the state explicitly issued a ban, and it was culpable of punishment.

Due to the lack of market supervision in the production process, the production quality is uneven, and many "black-hearted" manufacturers also have problems such as illegal operation in the production process, the gold foil powder produced is likely to contain excessive elements such as lead and mercury, and even the gold foil powder you eat has no gold, which is very harmful to human health. Therefore, the state prohibits the addition of gold foil to food.

However, regular gold foil is edible, and it is allowed to be added to food in some foreign countries. The World Health Organization also lists natural pure gold as an edible food additive. Pure gold foil is harmless to the body, but it also has no nutritional value. Adding gold foil to food is to look good and attract people's attention, and it has no edible value, which will only waste resources, which is one of the reasons why it is forbidden to add gold foil to food in China.