businesses with thermoplastic elastomer fake silica gel

Keen on online shopping steaming pad, people may not know, for goods such as cake mold of the goods online marked as the silicone material, have perhaps made of thermoplastic elastomer pretend. Recently, the Shanghai tip citizens of quality control, thermoplastic elastomer, although look the same, such as silica gel as raw materials, but its security is better than silica gel, in temperature, the small molecule chemicals will migrate to food, affect human body health.

In recent years, with the increasing food contact rubber products appear in the civil field of vision. These rubber products of raw materials, both natural rubber, synthetic rubber. Query, found that the silicone rubber in synthetic rubber, also known as silica gel, are increasing in commodities such as used to produce steam pad, cake mould.

To understand the quality of these goods, the city pledges inspect bureau recently mainly for 65 batches of food risk monitoring with a rubber products, commodities hit a pacifier, spoon, knife, sealing ring, the ice, steaming pad, cake mold, such as sampling address contains produce company, entity stores and electric business channel.

Risk monitoring results show that there is a batch of food with silica gel products n-hexane transpiration residue is not in conformity with the national mandatory standard GB4806.1-1994 the rules of food with a rubber product hygiene standards.

City pledges inspect bureau, because the thermoplastic elastomer and silicone raw materials on the look and feel is not significantly different, commodity raw materials on a page fault to clarify may, because of electricity caused by the raw materials do not understand, when consumer is onlineshop silicone products, best can admit that goods again and raw materials, and attaches great importance to the things on the commodity clarify raw materials, to ensure the safety in the use of the goods.