Expert Advice Should Be Forced To Use Food-Grade Lubricants To Prevent Food Safety Incidents

Recently, the experts called for the prevention of food safety incidents, and promote the upgrading of food safety, food-grade lubricants should be developed for the relevant mandatory requirements.
According to Chinese experts ZHAO Zhongdong lubricants, the status of China's food processing lubricants worrying, "If this situation does not change, the food field next 'melamine' event may be out of the food processing industry on the oil."
According to reports, the food used in the production process will be exposed to the mechanical operation of lubricants. Conventional lubricants are generally derived from petroleum refining. Such lubricants are harmful to the human body, contact with light skin can cause dermatitis, severe cases caused by rash, skin tumor. Mis-entry, it will occur in human poisoning, and even lead to cancer. Which the general industrial lubricants should pay attention to, which contains a large number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aniline and other organic pollutants, heavy metals and other toxic additives, food must not appear above the material. But in real life, because the food processing machinery oil leakage, splashing, dripping, evaporation or soot, may lead to food contamination.

It is understood that the world has occurred in many non-food-grade lubricants poisoning incident, the Danish Arinco company had milk production line about 0.5-0.75L oil leak, resulting in the production of 1110 tons of "Peile" brand baby milk powder by Pollution, the use of lubricants containing lead and other harmful substances.
In China, there have been such incidents, in September 2014 a school in Shouguang City, Shandong 57 students food poisoning incident, the cause is the school bread machine sudden mechanical failure, a large number of mineral oil containing lubricating oil leaked into the flour. Developed countries in Europe and the United States, the relevant government departments have long been expressly prohibited non-food-grade lubricants involved in food processing. The domestic exports of food in Europe and America, buyers also explicitly require the use of oil production equipment must be on the human body is non-toxic harmless food-grade lubricants.
The so-called food-grade lubricants refers to its base oil and additives are non-toxic harmless, most countries in the world are now the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) H1, H2 and other industry standards. Among them, the H2 standard requires that all components used in lubricants are non-toxic and can be used in food machinery lubrication points, but does not allow direct contact with food; H1 standard requires not only all components of the lubricant non-toxic, and requires all Components are occasionally contaminated with food. In addition, food-grade lubricant formulations for food machinery, extreme working conditions (high / low temperature, high humidity, etc.) design, long life, can reduce equipment wear and reduce maintenance frequency.
Zhao Zhongdong said that China has no relevant mandatory provisions in the food production process must be the use of food grade lubricants. The reason why, mainly because of technical barriers and cost constraints is the promotion of food-grade lubricants constraints. Technically, food-grade lubricants in the production process may produce inorganic acids, causing harm to human health. So the production of food-grade lubricants difficult technical barriers exist, the production process technology has long been blocked by Western countries, the formation of market monopoly. At present, most of our domestic market, food grade lubricants are still mainly imported brands, the price is 10 times higher than ordinary industrial lubricants. "In addition, there is no mandatory laws and regulations in China, food production enterprises must use food-grade lubricants, is recommended."
It is understood that the Beijing Run-source Biotechnology Co., Ltd. independent research and development of independent innovation has overcome the technical problems of food-grade lubricants, bio-method can produce ester lubricants.
According to the Beijing Runhua Yuen days chairman Zhang Liping introduction, the company's food-grade lubricants are non-toxic and harmless biological ester oil and food-grade additives. The content of bio-ester oil can reach more than 80%, while the ester oil because of its high temperature, low temperature, biodegradable, in the overall performance than the corresponding foreign products.