Be careful if you put food or drink in plastic. It should be checked whether it was safe for our health and families.
Plastic is a material made from a chemical called monomer and plasticizer, two substances melted in very hot temperatures, then pressed in a way appropriate to the desired shape and then dididinginkan back. The form is to be accommodating, airtight, protecting, giving identity to food, helping consumers in selling products, a media campaign, streamlined, made from a plastic container into an irreplaceable medium for humans, including food accommodate.
Plastic is a material made from a chemical called monomer and plasticizer, two substances melted in very hot temperatures, then pressed in a way appropriate to the desired shape and then dididinginkan back. The form is to be accommodating, airtight, protecting, giving identity to food, helping consumers in selling products, a media campaign, streamlined, made from a plastic container into an irreplaceable medium for humans, including food accommodate.
Functions that can protect the body from dust, protect contamination from microorganisms, to protect from the effects of oxygen, airtight, and protect from the effects of light made of plastic as a function of object sought to help store food.
However, unfortunately, in certain conditions and circumstances, the plastic can be harmful to the body. In relation to the storage of food (as container or packaging), there is a plastic that is safe for storing food, there is not.
Food safe plastic food contact materials called. All contact surfaces or contact with food (food contact materials) can cause health problems. Examples of food contact materials: cutting boards, cooking utensils, dishes, and a packing / umbrella / store food, and more.
If there is contact between the plastic packaged foods, can occur transfer chemicals into the food earlier. This phenomenon is called migration. If the chemicals had been entered into the system of the human body, it can lead to several diseases, such as cancer.
But not all plastics pose a hazard, there are also other types of plastic that is relatively safe, such as those made of polyethylene terepthalate (PET), high density polyethylene (HDPE), low density polyethylene (LDPE) and polypropylene (PP). So, how do we know that the container or packaging that we use for food is safe or not to store food?
One easy way to recognize that the product is safe for food is to check whether the product is safe for food has a sign, or so-called food safe or food grade. There are symbols that represent a sign that the plastic is safe for contact with the material, for example a symbol of Europe, the silhouette a glass and fork, or food grade paper, or paper approved by the FDA, or a trademark that has been patented, no symbol TM (Trade mark) or R (Registered).
Tips on buying a plastic container that is guaranteed safe :
- If available in the stores visited, choose a container / packaging of a brand that is known and trusted.
- Believe that the brand purchased is genuine, not counterfeit. If necessary, authorized representative / authorized dealers.
- Do not be tempted by cheap prices. Expensive little to minimize health and safety risks better family than sorry.
- If there are instructions on the use containers, follow it consistently.
Many plastics are used arbitrarily circulating out without knowing that plastics can contaminate food sold. Black plastic (plastic bag) is often used as a tool to store and distribute food by vendors, because they are cheap, easy to obtain, and lightweight, plastic food storage containers used as flare, but he was not safe for food. Be careful typing buy food out there. At the same event, Shahnaz Haque, presenter, giving tips, that if he would buy food without packaging, such as beef or fish that is not packaged by nature, she will usually bring your own container to ensure the safe use of plastic chemicals, also does not spill.
Children are given the knowledge that no snack at random, because parents can not always keep an eye on the food and the container used to eat children. Do not also buy hot oily liquid foods (such as meatballs) were wrapped in plastic and then consumed later. Migration of chemicals triggered by heat, acid, oil, and contact with food for a long time. Also avoid buying fried foods distributed in black plastic bags.
