Ito Sumio
Quality Assurance Laboratory, San-Ei Gen F. F. I., Inc., Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.
Yakugaku Zasshi. 2011;131(7):1027-35. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.131.1027.
Recently, many accidents relating to food happened in Japan. The consumer's distrust for food, food companies, and the administration is increasing. The consumer especially has an extreme refusal feeling for chemicals such as food additives and agricultural chemicals, and begins to request agricultural chemical-free vegetables and food additive-free food. Food companies also state no agricultural chemicals and no food additives to correspond with consumers' request and aim at differentiating. The food additive is that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare specifies the one that person's health might not be ruined by providing for Food Sanitation Law Article 10 in our country. The standard for food additives and standard for use of food additives are provided according to regulations of Food Sanitation Law Article 11. Therefore, it is thought that the food additive used is safe now. Then, it reports on the procedure and the safety examination, etc. in our country for designation for food additive this time.
最近，日本发生了多起与食品相关的事故。消费者对食品、食品企业和政府的不信任感在不断增强。消费者尤其对食品添加剂和农药等化学品有着极端的抵触情绪，并开始要求无农药蔬菜和无食品添加剂食品。食品企业也宣称无农药、无食品添加剂，以迎合消费者需求并实现差异化。在我国，食品添加剂是厚生劳动省根据《食品卫生法》第10条规定的、不会损害人体健康的物质。食品添加剂的标准及食品添加剂的使用标准是根据《食品卫生法》第11条的规定制定的。因此，目前认为所使用的食品添加剂是安全的。接下来，将报告此次我国食品添加剂指定的程序和安全性审查等情况。
