Recently, some media reported that about 10% of rice sold on the market had excessive chromium levels, which would harm human bones and kidneys, cause itai-itai disease, and prevent the kidneys from functioning normally. Once this news was reported, it immediately aroused widespread public concern. The fact that rice, one of the staple foods, also has hidden safety hazards has added another layer of panic among consumers regarding China's food safety.文章源自FOFCC-http://www.fofcc.org.cn/en/11287/
The "2010-2015 Xinjiang Agricultural Products Market Investment Analysis and Prospect Forecast Report" released by CIC Consultants shows that among the 8 major public nuisance incidents of the last century once announced by the International Health Organization, the incident of itai-itai disease caused by cadmium-contaminated rice poisoning in Japan was one of them. As early as 2002, relevant departments conducted safety spot checks on rice in China's market, and the results showed that excessive heavy metals in rice did indeed exist, among which the exceedance rate for lead was 28.4%, and the exceedance rate for cadmium was 10.3%.文章源自FOFCC-http://www.fofcc.org.cn/en/11287/
Zhou Siran, a food industry researcher at CIC Consultants, pointed out that the safety of the rice market has always been the focus of public attention, so why is rice contaminated by cadmium? This is mainly due to the soil problem in rice cultivation. With the acceleration of China's industrialization process, environmental pollution problems have gradually emerged. Some harmful heavy metal compounds such as cadmium, arsenic, and mercury produced in industrial production processes are released into nature, polluting some of China's land and water flows, and rice planted in these soils continuously absorbs these heavy metal elements. If this continues over time, it will inevitably cause excessive heavy metals in some rice.文章源自FOFCC-http://www.fofcc.org.cn/en/11287/
Since cadmium-exceeding rice exists, consumers should be more vigilant when choosing rice, but when faced with the dazzling array of rice brands on the market, consumers are at a loss as to what to do. In fact, with the naked eye alone, we cannot distinguish which rice is problematic. Therefore, the only way to cope is to change a single dietary structure and choose rice varieties from different origins and different brands to minimize the risk.文章源自FOFCC-http://www.fofcc.org.cn/en/11287/
Zhang Yanlin, research director of CIC Consultants, pointed out that excessive heavy metals have become one of the food safety issues that seriously threaten our health. How to effectively control and manage the upstream has become the focus of ensuring future food safety. The rise of green food and organic food may point out the direction for the future development of the food industry. For China's agricultural product production, building a full industrial chain from field to table is crucial.文章源自FOFCC-http://www.fofcc.org.cn/en/11287/