People's Daily, November 19 (reporter Sun Jie) Early this morning, the media exposed that the third-party agency tested that the alcoholic wine plasticizer exceeded the standard by up to 260%, and they are all phthalates, that is, the protagonist in the plasticizer incident in Taiwan. Dragged down by this news, today the liquor industry share price fell across the board, as of the close, Kweichow Moutai fell 4.61%, Wuliangye fell 5.89%, Yanghe shares fell 5.25%, Luzhou Laojiao fell 6.18%, Shuijingfang 7.09%.

People's Net reporter the first time to connect the person in charge of alcoholic wine, two deputy general manager phone are not answered. It is reported that the alcoholic wine company held an emergency conference call in the morning, and the responsible people in large areas received a notice from the company to Hunan headquarters, and the related products have been sent to the quality inspection department for authoritative quality inspection. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow there may be a statement of the relevant situation.

As for the plasticizer problem in the liquor industry, there are rumors that it is the industry's worst-kept secret. There are reports that the China Liquor Association was aware of the plasticizer in baijiu as early as last June, but it was not made public and only communicated to a small extent. In June 2011, after learning about the information of plasticizer in liquor products, the liquor branch of China Liquor Association respectively communicated with key Chinese liquor enterprises, relevant national testing and scientific research institutions and arranged research tasks. In December 2011, a notice was issued, clearly requiring liquor enterprises to further improve food safety awareness. Comprehensively implement the Notice of the Food Safety Office of The State Council on Further Strengthening the Quality and Safety of Alcoholic Drinks (Food Safety Office [2011] No. 23), prohibit the use of plastic products in the production, storage and sale of liquor, and strengthen the detection of plastic bottle caps that come into contact with liquor.

In this regard, the People's Daily reporter called the relevant person in charge of the China Wine Industry Association and the China Wine Industry Association, but the phone was not answered. Then the reporter connected the field of plasticizer experts, professor Lei Jingxin of Sichuan University, Professor Lei said that liquor in the production process is not plasticizer ingredients, but in the pipeline transportation and packaging and other links will be exposed to plastic products. Such as the plastic pipe commonly used in the liquor industry, is a traditional polymer material with plasticizer, not an environmentally friendly plasticizer, which is the industry's drawback. Therefore, in the process of transporting liquor, the body of the wine as an organic solvent, it is easy to dissolve the plasticizer into the alcohol.

Professor Lui stressed that he noticed that the three plasticizer components detected in the alcoholic wine are phthalates, which are the main body of the plasticizer incident in Taiwan. This plasticizer is very toxic, long-term consumption of food with excessive plasticizer will damage male reproductive ability, promote female precocious puberty and cause damage to the immune system and digestive system, and even poison human genes. Therefore, Professor Lei suggested that no matter whether the test results are true or not, it has sounded the alarm for the liquor industry, and he suggested that the liquor industry use environmentally friendly and edible plasticizers to avoid the safety risks of alcohol dissolution.

The Food channel of People's Daily Online will continue to follow the latest development of the incident.

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