Disposable chopsticks shown to pose health threats

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Disposable chopsticks shown to pose health threats

Chinadaily, February 28, 2014

Disposable chopsticks, without disinfection and protection from production to storage, have been shown to pose great risks to health.

Shanghai Youth Daily found on Feb 20 some disposable chopstick factories in Anji county, Zhejiang province boiled them with industrial hydrogen peroxide and polished them with paraffin.

After simple packing, they were distributed in Shanghai markets before appearing on the table in restaurants.

One customer sterilized her chopsticks with boiling water before having a meal but found the water they had been put in became cloudy.

Experts said the chopsticks had been soaked with industrial sulfur dioxide with most displaying excessive signs of the chemical.

 

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This is how disposable chopsticks are made -- in a dingy Chinese factory

Posted on 24 October 2010 | 133 views | 0 comments

Watch this video, and you might think twice about putting disposable chopsticks anywhere near your mouth again. This documentary shows how a Chinese chopstick factory produces the utensils - in less than ideal conditions.In the video, the chopsticks are seen strewn all over a dirty factory floor after being cut from logs. At one point, one of the workers even walks over the piles of chopsticks in his socks. Afterwards, the chopsticks are shown being treated with industrial sulphur before being coated in wax. Mouldy chopsticks are not discarded, merely treated with hydrogen peroxide, which is a chemical used for bleaching.Here's what STOMPer Haboomall wrote:"Are these the disposable chopsticks we use everyday?"This video shows how the chopsticks are made China. I really don't dare to use it anymore."

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