Study on the Harm of Chemical Additives to Food Safety and Their Detection Methods

Chengsong An

Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, 300384, China

Abstract: More and more people pay much attention to the food safety. The reason is that food additives play an important role. Improper use of chemical additives has led to increasingly serious food safety problems. People should hold a dialectical view on food additives and a correct view of their role in the preservation and use of food, do not “give up eating for fear of choking”. Food additives are not the same as poisons, and only the violation of regulations and excessive use of additives will cause harm to people's lives and bodies. So, this paper puts forward the study of the harm of chemical additives to food safety and their detection methods. This paper describes the types of chemical additives and their respective harm, enumerating several additives that have come to the attention of the people today, such as Sudan Red, Clenbuterol, Melamine and so on; and this paper discusses their detection methods, analyze the pros and cons of various detection technologies, such as biosensing technology, gas phase detection method, spectroscopy detection method and ion chromatography detection method.

Keywords: Chemical additives; Food safety; Harm; Detection methods