At 4 PM on May 25th, 2019, as freighter Jinhaixiang from Fujian Marine Containers (Group) Co. Ltd was being repaired, its fire fighting system happened to release carbon dioxide. At the moment, the number of fatalities is 10, and 19 people are being treated in the hospital. There is no secondary disaster in the accident. According to the investigation, the accident was caused by the third officer of Jinhaixiang freighter.
On May 29 2019, Beijing consumer committee revealed the examination and comparison results for 100 online-shopping children’s toys from 79 brands. It is suggested that 14 samples haven’t reached the relevant standards, among which, the AOBEIBY brand barbie dolls sold on jumei.com platform is examined to have plasticizers exceeding the standard for 140 times.
On June 11, 2019, according to Family Doctor Online, hair tints may contain strong carcinogenic chemical contents, e.g. phenol, aniline, etc. These contents can be absorbed through pores by the body, assembling and combining with the body cells gradually, damaging deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), mutating the normal cells, as well as resulting in skin cancer, leukemia, and breast cancer, etc. Additionally, some metal tints may contain silver nitrate or acid acetic base, which may result in chronic poisoning, acroanesthesia, headache, dizziness, Morbus asthenicus. Further, if it enters the brain, liver, and kidney, and can be risky to health and life.
On June 2019, during the port surveillance process, national custom-house examined and found 76 groups of food are not qualified in terms of safety and hygiene, including 16 kinds of food from 21 countries and regions. The main reasons of un-qualification is that the food additives exceed the standards, the quality is low, and the products entered the country without quarantine inspection.
In recent years, Hipp from Germany has almost become a ‘professional blacklist member’, and its baby cereal complementary foods were once returned back for containing micro-elements, e.g. zinc, cadmium, and steels that don’t meet national food safety requirements. Besides, the Chinese importers of French walnut oil brand La Tourangelle examined all batches of products and found there were phthalates (plasticisers) left. They then asked agencies from various channels to urgently off-the-shelf all the products after the 15th. Also, European Dutch brand Farm Mania has been examined to contain the sodium that 80% lower than its product packagings reveal.
On June 27th 2019, according to a comparative experiment of Jiangsu Consumer Protection Association, PVC cling wraps tend to release harmful materials such as plasticizers after getting in touch with oleaginous food. The experiment has collected 30 batches of cling wrap samples, including 23 batches of polyethylene (PE), 6 batches of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and 1 batch of polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC). During the fat mine-tic experiment, 6 batches of PVC cling wraps were tested to have 15 to 38 mg/dm overall migration volumes, which proved that this kind of samples will release many chemical materials after getting in touch with oleaginous food.
On June 2019, Customer Report searched and collected 9 brands of popular quinquagenarian milk powders, sending them to the third party test institutions for examination. There was no exogenous hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) in 9 products, suggesting that these formula milk powders are of safety. However, it is found that 9 products all have caladium above 240mg/100g, among which the Anyi powders have a calcium-phosphorus ratio of 2.3:1 and exceed the best ingestion ratio (1.2:1~2:1) of the human body. Its caladium ingestion ratio was infected.
