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China bans diethylene glycol in toothpaste
www.chinanews.cn 2007-07-12 09:56:53
(Source: Xinhua)
July 12 - China has forbidden domestic enterprises from using diethylene
glycol as an ingredient in toothpaste after a number of countries banned
the sale of toothpaste containing this chemical, according to the General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Imports and exports of toothpastes containing this substance known as DEG
are banned starting Wednesday.
In exceptional cases where the chemical finds its way into toothpaste
mixed up with other ingredients, quantities must not exceed limits set by
importing countries or regions.
Most Chinese toothpaste firms have abandoned DEG as a production raw
material.
The administration maintained that toothpaste containing DEG would not
jeopardize the health of consumers.
Citing a report by experts from the Ministry of Health, the
administration said the long-term use of toothpaste in which the DEG
content was less than 15.6 percent would have no adverse affect on
people's health. None of the data suggested that toothpaste containing
this substance had directly led to the human poisonings.
Recent random inspections by domestic quality authorities found most
domestically made toothpaste contained no such substance. The quantities
of DEG in the few detected were less than 10 percent, it said.
There is no definite criterion or quality limits on the use of DEG in
toothpastes across the world, but the United States, Japan and Canada
have all recently banned the selling of toothpaste containing this
substance.
The deaths of dozens of people in Panama who took medicine containing
diethylene glycol imported from China sparked fears abroad about
China-made products. The chemical -- often used in antifreeze -- was used
as a sweetener in toothpaste.
The safety of Chinese food and drug products has been in the news lately.
Former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)
Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed on Tuesday for taking bribes worth more than
6.49 million yuan (about 850,000 U.S. dollars) and dereliction of duty.
The consequences of Zheng's dereliction of duty have proved extremely
serious. Six types of medicine approved by the administration during that
period were fake. Some pharmaceutical companies used false documents to
apply for approvals.
On Monday, China's quality supervision authorities blacklisted 14
companies for planning to export substandard food products and banned
them from further exports.
A total of 34,400 cases of fake and low-quality food have been cracked by
China's industrial and commercial authorities in the first half of this
year, involving goods worth 67.7 million yuan (8.9 million U.S. dollars).
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