What are the hazards of disposable tableware? How to judge whether disposable tableware is qualified

With the acceleration of the pace of life, disposable tableware emerges in an endless stream. In daily life, disposable tableware is used a lot. Disposable tableware mainly includes disposable paper towels, disposable lunch boxes, disposable chopsticks and disposable cups. They are difficult to degrade. It is not environmentally friendly, and inferior disposable tableware will even cause great harm to human health. Therefore, we must pay attention to whether the tableware is qualified when using it. This can be judged by looking at the packaging, senses, and touch. Let's take a look at the hazards of disposable tableware!

What are the hazards of disposable tableware

1. Disposable paper towels

Many people habitually wipe their mouths and chopsticks with napkins, thinking that this will have a good cleaning effect, but experts point out that instead of doing this, it is better to just use it, which will be healthier. Many people can't imagine that a lot of bleach and whitening agents are likely to be added to the paper towels we often use in our daily life, and these chemicals will enter your body as you wipe your mouth, which will seriously damage your skin. impact on human health.

Irradiate the paper towel with a currency detector or a purple light lamp for killing mosquitoes. If there is strong "fluorescence", it means that this is a poor-quality napkin. Usually they are made of newspapers, old books, medicine packaging boxes and colorful scraps of paper, and some are even moldy and black.

2. Disposable lunch box

Under normal circumstances, the surface of a qualified lunch box should be smooth and clean, without impurities or black spots, so that such a lunch box will not affect human health. The most common thing in our life is the inferior lunch box. This disposable lunch box contains a large amount of industrial calcium carbonate, paraffin and other toxic substances. If these lunch boxes are used frequently, it will seriously affect human health. Moreover, the raw materials of these lunch boxes are mainly waste plastics and talcum powder, which are very harmful to human health.

If we use a disposable lunch box containing a large amount of industrial calcium carbonate for a long time, the chemical substances added in the lunch box will dissolve with the water, vinegar, oil, etc. contained in the food, and enter the human body with the food, thus causing indigestion , abdominal pain and other adverse symptoms.

3. Disposable chopsticks

Compared with other disposable tableware, disposable chopsticks are used most frequently. These disposable chopsticks were once called "hygienic chopsticks" and "convenient chopsticks". When eating in restaurants, many people are willing to use disposable chopsticks, thinking that they are more hygienic, rather than using chopsticks in the disinfection cabinet. However, these disposable chopsticks usually have substandard sanitation in the production process, which makes the small chopsticks hide many hazards. Moreover, in order to reduce costs, many small workshops often use low-quality wood and bamboo materials. Such chopsticks look black. In order to make the chopsticks "change their appearance", many unscrupulous manufacturers use sulfur fumigation to bleach the chopsticks. Frequent use of such chopsticks will erode the human respiratory mucosa.

4. Disposable paper cups

Most families are accustomed to using disposable paper cups to entertain guests when they have guests. During use, it is found that some paper cups become soft when water is added. There are also some disposable paper cups that have a pungent smell when they are filled with hot water. Experts remind that these are the characteristics of toxic paper cups. Usually inferior paper cups have impurities on the surface, the cup is very soft, and at the same time emit a pungent ink smell due to excessive benzene and heavy metals.

How to judge whether disposable tableware is qualified?

1. Look at the packaging

First of all, let's look at the outer packaging. Generally, there will be labels printed on the plastic film outside the regular tableware, showing the manufacturer's name, trademark, address, phone number, production date, shelf life and other production information, QS logo, production license number, Inspection by the health supervision department, etc.

2. Senses

After opening the package, look at the appearance of the tableware to see if there is any damage, if there is any food residue from before, and if there is a pungent smell, if it is cleaned with detergent, detergent, disinfectant or other cleaning solution or disinfectant, There will be a strong odor residue, and there will be a bad smell if the oil remains.

3. Touch

It’s not enough to judge through the senses, try to touch it with your hands at this time, if there is water and astringency, it means that the tableware is not cleaned thoroughly, that is, it is unqualified.

4. Don’t ignore chopsticks

After talking about tableware, let’s talk about chopsticks. Many people think that disposable chopsticks are more hygienic and safe when dining out. However, in order to reduce costs, some small workshops use low-quality wood. In order to "whiten" the chopsticks, speculators will fumigate and bleach them with sulfur. When eating with this kind of chopsticks, the residual sulfur dioxide will enter the body. After getting the disposable chopsticks, it depends on whether the manufacturer's name, trademark and contact information are printed on the package. Those disposable chopsticks that are too white are not credible. You can also smell the chopsticks. If there is a sour sulfur smell, it is best not to use them. Do not soak wooden chopsticks in hot soup or hot porridge for a long time when eating, because this will accelerate the decomposition of sulfur dioxide. You can wash the surface of the chopsticks with cold water to reduce residual sulfur dioxide.

My suggestion: For the sake of safety, I suggest that the most effective way is to bring your own tableware and water glasses, at least bring your own chopsticks if the store does not provide disposable tableware for cleaning. The second method is to prepare alcohol disinfection tissue. When you are worried about the tableware, wipe the tableware with alcohol tissue to achieve a satisfactory disinfection effect.