Hormone food era, how to safeguard health

With the Ministry of Health announced the results of the survey, whether on milk hormone issues already added in final.

But the result of hormonal and food spread lies not only in this. Many people will have a feeling that in recent years, the vegetable is flavor, pork and chicken does not smell, we lift the eels, its growth during play the "pill" of things has also become a open secret. Although we have entered an era of steroid abuse, but the reporter learned from the interview was informed that related to food safety chain, our hormone regulation is still in a blank.

Market phenomenon

Interests of various hormones temptation fire

Food hormones derived from the two aspects, one is inherent in food, called endogenous hormones, it is not difficult to understand, for example, many ladies drink soymilk supplemental estrogen is the best explanation.

On the other hand is the one to add, belongs to the exogenous hormones. However, in order to stimulate the growth of economic interests, many people will be playing chicken, fish, and other hormone products are also used hormone, kind of fruits and vegetables will join the hormone.

"Food and hormone phenomenon is so painful," Jiangsu provincial Center for disease control and prevention Director doctor, Chinese Academy of preventive medicine food health director Prof. Zhou tree, the hormone products mixing to feed pigs, chickens, ducks, shrimp, crab and other livestock products and seafood, or feed formulation have hormone in itself, can more than halve the growing period, not only a big fat fat mature and cost-effective; be sprayed on the fruit, vegetables, fruits and vegetables grow fast and large and color, can lead to market and sell a good price, greatly improving the economic efficiency.

Therefore, when people buy fruit, it is not difficult to see strange strawberries, there are many appearance has matured, but nothing to eat delicious banana or pineapple.

Special reminder

Meat in hormone residues should be vigilant

Countries expressly provides that the chemical hormones in animal breeding is prohibited.

However, see the supermarket sturdy eels, many people will be flashed in my mind would not be fed contraceptives (components for estrogen) in case of doubt, eating not delicious chicken and let people guessing this chicken is 42 days express broilers. It is understood that, compared to plant hormones, hormone residues in meat should pay attention to the hormone residues in meat, primarily estrogen and androgen.

Food safety experts, hormones, and other drugs in animal tissue distribution and residues, with drugs to be in animal food, food, feed or as with drinking water, types of drug injection, and have a great relationship, generally have metabolic effects of the concentration in the liver, kidneys; high in eggs, egg yolk lipophilic drugs easily in volume.

Enter animal drug excretion to extend and increase over time, the drug concentration in animals. "However, many fish farmers regardless of the use of veterinary hormone, even if only used hormone poultry or home storage, as long as the long strong long fat, maybe in a few days to the slaughter of sales, this hormone residue concentration is relatively high. ”

Attention

Our body suffer what

Under normal conditions, the human body's hormone secretion often at a height of equilibrium.

However, there is information that overeating hormone is not only easy to cause human endocrine imbalances, but also directly promotes body fat in the body become deficiency, disorders of circulatory system, resulting in organogenesis lesions. Hormone food in this "fast food" of the era can be seen everywhere, our body will encounter?

"Although had a large sample of epidemiological investigations, but looking back through history, we find that, over the past few years clearly younger patients with breast cancer, and 2% per year for three fast-growing proportion of" Jiangsu provincial people's Hospital breast endocrine surgery Associate Chief physician Dr. Ling Li Jun told reporters that the incidence of breast cancer in women with excessive intake of estrogen has some relationship, such as postmenopausal women often have estrogen components of propolis health products or lyophilized powder, breast pain phenomena may occur.

Abroad also worked as a research animal estrogen, studies show that women eat red meat a week more than three times, the corresponding increase in breast cancer risk. Experts also told reporters that the pesticide residues in food, although the contamination is not in itself, but to eat into the hormones in the human body, may translate into similar to estrogen, in short, food and environmental pollution on the occurrence of breast cancer should be concerned about.

Chinese society of Pediatrics branch of the science of endocrine inborn errors of metabolism, Southern Medical University group erfuyuan Pediatric Endocrinology Division Chief physician at Po Sang, told reporters that child development there ahead of trends, and food and the environment is the primary factor in Po Sang that Yang fast food, fried food, nutrition and high-calorie, low, high level containing hormones.

In addition, some plastics contain chemical constituents easily into environmental estrogens, food preservatives, pesticides, etc., they are the natural metabolism very slowly, and then enter the body through the food chain, human endocrine balance disturbance. "Add effects of glucocorticoid on animals is relatively large, in order to prevent a premature child development ahead of time, parents should note that don't often give children eat eels, turtles, animal food, however, Colostrum occasionally eat eating is not related," expert advice.

Further thoughts on

There is no standard monitoring to detect blank

Hormone in order to reduce the security scope of growing plants, increasing economic efficiency, meet community needs.

For food hormones is not in the security context, you need to monitor the sector. Jiangsu provincial Center for disease control and prevention of food safety, Director of the Yuan baojun, told reporters that chemical hormones in animal breeding is the prohibition of the use of, the Ministry of agriculture, 235, bulletin also on animal food animalsMaximum residue limits of medicine has made, but the actual implementation is not satisfactory.

Reporters in the interview to understand that, although the food safety risk monitoring involves fungal toxins, pesticides, veterinary drugs residues (including hormone), elements, parts, food processing process harmful substances, food additives, food additives, and other prohibited items.

However, with regard to veterinary drugs residues (including hormones) such monitoring remains blank. The reason for the China Society for the prevention of medical food health Executive member Professor Zhou tree South, multiparty monitoring is a major agricultural, quality, health, industry and commerce, drug and other departments in the regulation of food safety, but due to the various departments are not coordinated, inadequate supervision, the market still exist many in animal breeding chemical hormones used in the fattening of phenomena.

More crucially, on the hormones in food security issues, there is no standard so far.

Furthermore, the country is also not yet promulgated estrogen in animal feed ingredients standard requirements. Countries, on feed products quality supervision and testing of standard only include aflatoxin content of heavy metals content, and other indicators of health and nutrition indicators. "That is, from the food source management on regulatory loophole." Prof. Zhou tree while also suggested that it should be devised as soon as possible to the relevant provisions and measures introduced, obliging manufacturers to stop production of pressed long, fattening, hormone products, and hormone products to clean and standardize the market.

(Practice editing: wangjia Wei)