Someone processes peanut oil and makes the peanuts on site. Is this oil edible?

Domestic media have revealed that oil products produced by local pressing methods are likely to contain the strong carcinogen aflatoxin

The local oil products sold near the Dingcun vegetable market Peanut oil extraction worries citizens.

The production equipment of soil-pressed peanut oil workshops is simple.

Pay attention to safety on the tip of your tongue

Nanguo Metropolis Daily reported on November 18 (Reporter Nie Yuanjianwen/Photo) Mr. Chen recently saw someone near the Dingcun vegetable market in Haikou: someone was Earth-pressed peanut oil is sold here, with slogans such as "natural, fresh, and no food additives", attracting many citizens to come and buy it. Mr. Chen told reporters that domestic media have repeatedly reported that some ground-pressed peanut oil contains aflatoxin B1, which is a highly carcinogenic substance. Relevant government departments should resolutely stop the sale of ground-pressed peanut oil to ensure the food safety of the people.

According to Mr. Chen: Recently, a ground-pressed peanut oil workshop opened on Chengnan Yiheng Road near the Dingcun vegetable market in Haikou. The oil sold here is all ground-pressed peanut oil that has not been tested by the government food safety department. With the slogan "natural, fresh, no food additives", it attracted a lot of people.

Mr. Chen saw at the scene: The peanut oil sold here is very cheap, only 16 yuan/jin, but the oil extraction equipment here is extremely simple, and the raw peanuts are poured directly into the pot to extract the oil without being selected. There is no refining process such as adsorption, saponification, and decolorization, so it is impossible to eradicate aflatoxin B1 contamination caused by moldy peanuts in the raw material. Not only that, the peanut oil here is dark in color and rich in impurities, which is far different from the good peanut oil sold in the market.

Mr. Chen said: "Many domestic media such as "Nanfang Daily" and "Yangcheng Evening News" have reported food safety issues that soil (self-) pressed peanut oil contains high carcinogen aflatoxin B1 and exceeds the standard. Guangdong The province also issued the "Guangdong Provincial Regulations on the Management of Small Food Production and Processing Workshops and Food Vendors", which requires the production of soil-pressed peanut oil to be stopped. In order to ensure the food safety of the people, I strongly request the relevant departments to ban the production and production of this type of soil-pressed peanut oil, which has serious safety hazards. Sales."

After receiving the complaint from Mr. Chen, the reporter rushed to Chengnan Yiheng Road near the Dingcun vegetable market that morning and saw: This peanut oil workshop is called "Haikou Qiongshan Litou Oil Factory" and it is pressed here. The prepared peanut oil is sold on a simple table.

According to the workshop owner Li, they have only opened the oil workshop here for a month. The oil they squeezed has not been inspected by the government food safety department, and the peanut oil they sell does not have a trademark.

When the reporter asked whether the aflatoxin B1 contained in the ground-pressed peanut oil here exceeded the standard, Li was at a loss.

Li said that since they opened a peanut oil pressing workshop here, no one has stopped them. They have applied for a self-employed "Business License" from the Haikou City Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and are preparing to take the squeezed peanut oil to the Haikou Food Safety Department for testing and obtain a food safety production license.

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There are three major unsafe factors in soil-pressed peanut oil

1. Production steps "cut corners". Regular peanut oil processing needs to go through screening, impurity removal, Pressing, filtering, packaging and other processes. But basically in the production process of all soil-pressed peanut oil, some procedures are simplified and some are omitted.

2. Seriously adulterated and mixed with palm oil. Many workshops even openly mix palm oil to deceive consumers. This is why earth-pressed peanut oil is sold so cheaply. Palm oil contains trans fatty acids, which may cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases if consumed for a long time.

3. Use moldy peanuts to extract oil. Peanut raw materials are not classified as good or bad, and some even use moldy raw materials for production. Many people like the rich aroma of ground-pressed peanut oil, but some unscrupulous merchants add a special spice to peanut oil in order to make their pressed oil more fragrant. This spice is made from moldy peanuts.

How toxic is aflatoxin? It is a first-level carcinogen

Moldy peanuts contain a large amount of aflatoxin, which is a highly toxic substance and a strong carcinogen. Its toxicity is 10 times that of potassium cyanide and is a form of arsenic. 68 times. The processing technology of some small workshops that produce peanut oil is simple. Usually there are only four steps of peanut shelling, heating and roasting, pressing to extract oil, and filtering and sedimentation. During the processing, it is difficult to filter out the moldy peanuts. Due to the lack of finishing and inspection, it is difficult to If it meets the national safety standards for edible oil, it is easy for aflatoxin b1 to exceed the standard.

Aflatoxin b1 is a first-level carcinogen that has a destructive effect on human liver tissue and can cause liver cancer.