We recommend glass, ceramic, porcelain, and stainless steel tableware, as well as wooden and stainless steel cookware.
Because melamine is dishwasher safe, inexpensive, and durable, it is used to make a variety of hard plastic “food contact items such as cups, plates, bowls, and utensils.” If this term sounds familiar, it’s because melamine is illegally added to protein products to take advantage of a system that makes “foods” such as pet food appear to contain more protein than they actually do. It may be because it is. By 2007, more than 1,000 potentially contaminated pet food products had been recalled after “the chemical was found to be a contaminant in the wheat gluten used in those products.” It was not recalled before it caused illness and death in pets across North America.
“It is presumed that the melamine was intentionally added by Chinese suppliers to falsify the measured protein content and thus increase the monetary value of these products.” The pet food scandal is just a wall It was just something written. The following year, “melamine was found to be responsible for the occurrence of urinary tract stones and renal failure (kidney stones and kidney failure),” which affected hundreds of thousands of infants and young children across China. “Investigations revealed that this compound was illegally added to infant formula and infant formula to disguise protein content.”
As I explain in my video “Are Melamine Dinnerware and Polyamide Plastic Cookware Safe?” in the United States, they can be found sneakily mixed into food packaging and animal feed. However, if you are using melamine tableware, you may be directly exposed to the melamine tableware, as exposure to heat transfers directly to the food. In fact, according to food safety authorities, “melamine cooking spoons and utensils are not suitable for microwave ovens or cooking.” Okay, but what if you don’t want to cook it, fry it, or use it in the microwave? What if you just eat it with melamine?
In the “Crossover Study of Noodle Soup Consumption in Melamine Bowls and Total Urinary Melamine Excretion,” researchers found that eating the same soup in ceramic bowls increased The amount of flowing melamine was measured. What did they discover? “Melamine tableware can release large amounts of melamine when used to serve hot food.” That’s even with hot food. “Melamine migration can be detected in daily-used melamine tableware, even at low temperatures, just as in simply hot water.” Why care? This is because the level of melamine to which one is exposed is “significantly associated with the decline in kidney function in patients with early-stage CKD,” and in chronic kidney disease, relatively “low melamine levels are associated with a rapid decline in kidney function.” It could cause it.” Therefore, we recommend glass, ceramic, porcelain, or stainless steel tableware instead.
What about polyamide utensils, common black plastic spoons and spatulas? Kitchen utensils come in a variety of plastic materials. Polyamide is “typically used in turners (spatulas) and ladles because of its high heat and oil resistance.” “However, this plastic content can migrate from tableware into food and, as a result, be ingested by consumers.” Of the 33 utensils tested, almost one in three exceeded the safe limit. I did. The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment recommends that “consumers keep contact with food as short as possible, especially when using PA (polyamide) kitchenware at high temperatures, e.g. above the temperature of drinking hot tea or coffee.” “I’m doing it.”
A separate study of black plastic kitchen utensils found that about a third were contaminated with flame-retardant chemicals. why? That’s because the material may be made from recycled plastic from impregnated electronics. Second, soaking polyamide cookware in oil can cause chemicals to drip out, and using such “frying cookware can lead to significant food exposure.” It is suggested that there is.
The black dye in some polyamide tableware can also leach itself. Levels will eventually drop with enough use, but it can take as long as boiling dishes for about 100 hours for dye leakage to reach a safe level. Wooden or stainless steel cookware is probably easier to use.
This is the last in a three-part cookware video series. If you missed the other items, check out “Are aluminum pots, bottles, and aluminum foil safe?” Stainless steel vs. cast iron: which cookware is best? Is Teflon safe?
It may not be safe to microwave melamine, but what about heating it in the microwave in general? See Is it safe to microwave? Effects of radiation leaking from microwave ovens.
