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(1)Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s “enhanced monitoring” of microplastics such as shrimp crackers
(2)Reporter Lim Hye-hyun approved 20230719 1646 目 Comments 0
(3)The risk has not been properly identified due to the lack of international verification standards for detection volume, so the authorities have already decided to reinforce various studies such as toxicity and performance of basic investigations related to detection volume
(4)made of raw shrimp
(5)crispy and light
(6)A snack that I bought!
(7)Photo source = Nongshim and Binggrae

(1)Today’s newspaper Lim Hye-hyun reports that microplastics are rapidly emerging as a negative factor that pollutes food amid serious marine pollution caused by plastic waste Meanwhile, it is pointed out that snacks, which are national snacks, are not free from microplastics, but according to authorities and industries on the 19th, there is a movement to set up microplastics standards and start managing harmfulness
(2)Recently, Health Chosun commissioned the Korea Institute of Analytical Science to analyze microplastics in Nongshim’s shrimp crackers and Binggrae blue crabs, and as a result, 13 shrimp crackers and 21 microplastics were detected per gram of snack
(3)While we are high that microplastics are accumulated a lot in seafood, especially crustaceans, detection problems have actually been highlighted in snacks using seafood raw materials
(4)A bag of snacks weighs 90g of shrimp crackers and 70g of blue crabs, so each bag contains 1,170 microplastics and 1,470 microplastics
(5)The problem is that there is no authorized inspection method by global standards, and the risk criteria for microplastics are not yet clear Given that there are not many types of snacks subject to this experiment, it is expected that only seafood ingredients remain a problem, and above all, microplastics were not introduced only during production stages such as raw materials, but also in packaging
(6)A Nongshim official said, “There is no international standard analysis method for microplastics, so there is no basis for judging the amount of microplastics detected,” adding, “If there is a standard, we can compare and check it, but it is difficult because there is no standard.”

(1)An official from Binggrae also explained, “We understand that there is no internationally recognized test method regarding microplastics.”
(2)The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety also said that there is no authorized test method for snacks using ingredients such as microplastics, and added, “It is still unclear how microplastics affect the human body.”
(3)However, authorities are already monitoring the environmental pollution situation The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is already conducting related research, such as releasing research data on how much microplastics enter the human body when consuming various foods, including sea creatures
(4)The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has investigated the pollution level and human exposure of microplastics in a total of 102 items, including foods reported with microplastic contamination in foreign countries of seaweed, salted seafood, and fish distributed in Korea between 2020 and 2021
(5)At the time, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that 00003 beers per ml in liquid tea contained 001 microplastics per ml In addition, soy sauce 004 pieces 1g honey 03 pieces 1g saline salt excluded 05 pieces 1g fish sauce 09 pieces 1g seaweed seaweed, kelp, seaweed 45 pieces 1g salted fish 66 pieces 1g etc
(6)Meanwhile, the authorities plan to continue observing microplastics problems and overhaul related systems. Just in time, awareness of seafood safety is rising due to Japan’s recent pollution water discharge problem
(7)An official from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said, “We will continue to monitor microplastic problems in food and continue to pursue toxic research on the human body.”