should always be your son or daughter Arm with healthy food while going to school so as not poisoned by hazardous chemical substances from unhealthy snacks in school.
Based on monitoring data from the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) together with the Ministry of National Education and Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) to the school canteen, found only 0.9 percent of the total 178,240 healthy canteen school.
"If a healthy 0.9 percent, meaning the rest is unhealthy snacks and dangerous," said Ir Chandra Irawan MSI, food chemistry and nutrition experts from the Academy of Chemical Analysis of Bogor, the gathering Yupi Media Support Movement Towards Healthy Food Snacks at School Cafe Tartine, fX Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday (01/03/2011).
According to Ir Chandra, currently a lot of processed food products sold in the market, especially in schools, without going through the process of proper food safety testing.
This is not only harmful to the body, could even violate the right of someone to get a guarantee of proper food safety and in accordance with the provisions of BPOM.
"To keep people interested in eating a meal, we often need to add additional ingredients into processed food (additive)," said Ir Chandra.
Ir Chandra explains, these additives can be classified as dyes, sweeteners, preservatives and flavorings. But most of those used by the manufacturers 'naughty' is not a dye for food.
"The kids liked his food with bright colors. And it turned out that bright color is actually not a food dye, but dye clothing," said Ir Chandra.
Here are some harmful chemicals that often ditemuka on street children school:
1. Cyclamate (artificial sweetener)
2. Saccharin (artificial sweetener)
3. Nitrosamines (the distinctive aroma of sausage, cheese, corned beef, ham and beef jerky)
4. MSG (a flavor)
5. Rhodamine B (dye textiles and paper)
6. Metanil Yellow (dye textiles and paint)
7. Formalin (non food preservative and disinfectant)
8. Borax (non-food preservatives and pesticides)
9. Natamysin (preservative)
10. Potassium acetate (preservative)
11. Butyl Hydroxy Anisol (BHA)
These harmful substances can cause various disorders in the body, ranging from mild like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, causing damage to the digestive system, liver, heart, brain, spleen, central nervous system, can even trigger cancer.
"The parents must always be vigilant and should Arm the kids with healthy foods that go to school," said Ir Chandra.
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