Supermarket tape tied vegetable widespread

Supermarket tape tied vegetable widespread

 

    "I bought one from the supermarket celery, celery bundled home to find food left on the tape in the adhesive, sticky, not only difficult to clean, I was worried for your health." 8, people call the hotline Chan telephone reflect.

    Chan habits to the supermarket to buy vegetables, feel supermarket vegetable quality is relatively secure. Let her tangled, sometimes buy some green onion, garlic, celery, etc., it is bundled with tape. "There will always be part of the home apart adhesive left on the dishes, wash up trouble." Ms Chan said, "listen to people say that the tape may be toxic, For security reasons, I buy vegetables from the supermarket, the general will tape tied at the excision. "

    Yesterday, the reporter visited the city part of the supermarket, found bundled with tape vegetables is widespread. Leek, garlic, cabbage, etc. There are one or two more to tie colored tape. During the interview, many people approach food supermarket tape tied with Chan expressed the same concerns.

    "Tied up with tape and vegetables, mainly for the convenience of the public to buy, or a lot of small public can choose according to their own needs." A downtown supermarket staff explained, do so in order to reduce the losses of vegetables. "Vegetables in the transport process can easily lead to leaf drop, tied up much better." The staff told reporters, on the one hand there is reason to prevent human loss, "individual unconscious people prefer to peel the outer layer of leaves fall, resulting in waste, it also undermines the interests of the supermarket. "

    For some members of the public whether the tape tied vegetable toxic issue, the reporter consulted the industry and commerce, quality supervision department, the relevant responsible person said, due to the current lack of appropriate testing standards, can only recommend the supermarket do not try to tape tied vegetable.

    "In general, supermarket tape is non-toxic, but does not rule out some defective tape contain formaldehyde, toluene and other substances harmful to human beings." Trade and Industry Bureau chief market supervision and management with Yang Min told reporters, because there are no national testing standards vegetable tape, difficult to identify whether the tape is really harmful to humans, the presence of certain regulatory difficulties. "The public buy vegetables at the tape binding note carefully cleaned, peeled off the skin if not washed away the best contact surface or removed."