Huainan News on September 12 news (reporter: Zhu Xiaorui) recently, the public Ms. Zhu to a large supermarket in our city to buy food, careful she found celery, leek, cabbage and other vegetables, supermarkets are generally tied with tape in advance weighing, sticker price. "This is really convenient for the public to buy, but it is a little trouble to clean up when you go home. After the tape is removed, the surface of the vegetables still feels sticky. In addition to the plastic tape, the price tags are usually attached directly to the vegetables and are not easy to peel off." Zhu told reporters.
According to Ms. Zhu's description of the situation, reporters visited many supermarkets in the city, found that many fresh vegetables are tied with plastic tape. The reporter asked the supermarket staff that these vegetable tape is industrial tape, not food packaging materials. "Using tape to bind vegetables directly and marking the price tag in advance will improve sales efficiency and make it easier for people to buy them." As for whether the harmful substances on the tape will remain on the vegetables, the supermarket staff said that supermarkets are so bundled, go back and tear the tape clean. Reporters in the supermarket interview found that the majority of the public to use tape bundled vegetables do not care. A citizen who was picking vegetables said: "Tape is very common to bundle vegetables, go back to wash a wash on the line, or rest assured that the outermost layer of the vegetable leaves thrown away."
It is understood that industrial tape contains benzene, formaldehyde, heavy metals and other harmful substances, through the vegetable skin into the vegetable interior, if long-term ingestion, will cause potential harm to the human body. Reporter suggests that the public as far as possible not to buy with tape directly bound vegetables, or after the purchase of tape as soon as possible to remove, convenient peeling vegetables can be vegetable and tape contact part of direct peeling processing.