FDA DISPROVES CONSUMERS' FOUNDATION COOKING OIL TEST|知名油品驗出苯 食藥署:在容許範圍內

The Consumers' Foundation sampled several cooking oil products and found three of them to contain benzene levels over 5 parts per billion. However, the FDA stressed that its own testing results showed benzene levels of those products to be under 4ppb, which is within the compound's permissible values in the environment. On September 30, the Consumers' Foundation said laboratory tests found that three types of cooking oil under Standard Foods Corporation's Great Day brand contained benzene. ==LING YUNG CHIEN, laboratory director of the Consumers' Foundation== Tests showed that the Great Day blended oil products contained benzene. According to the Act Governing Food Sanitation, cooking oil should be free of toxic chemicals. The CF emphasized that cooking oil should be free of benzene because long-term exposure to the chemical may cause leukemia. In response to the CF, the FDA conducted tests on the same oil products. Its testing results showed that benzene levels of those products were under the 5 ppb limit allowed in drinking water. ==CHENG WEI-CHIH, FDA technician== From data worldwide, we can know that edible vegetable oil contains benzene levels under 100ppb. Benzene is prevalent in the environment. There is no need for consumers to panic. ==HUANG HSIANG-JUNG, sales director of Standard Foods Corporation== Benzene can be found in the environment. It can be found in air, in water, or even in human breast milk. Can we say that human breast milk is poisonous because it contains trace amounts of benzene? Although the values of benzene contained in the cooking oil products were below its environmental background value, medical toxicologists believe that the government should set a maximum permissible level for benzene in cooking oil as soon as possible. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH 食安法通過即將滿2年，消基會抽檢食用油，發現有3個油品，苯濃度高於5ppb。消基會表示，苯有致癌風險，食品內不應檢出。不過食藥署再次抽測的結果，苯的含量都在4ppb以下，是在環境背景值的容許範圍內，民眾不用擔心。 黃澄澄的食用油，是民眾每天都會吃下肚的食品來源之一，不過根據消基會抽測結果發現，佳格得意的一天有3個品項，出現「苯」的毒物反應。 ==消基會檢驗長 凌永健== 出來這些結果都是 同一個品牌它的調和油 所以它這個調和油 是有測到這個苯 按照我們國家 現行的規定是正面表列 所以這個不得檢出 消基會表示，苯屬於第一類致癌物，無論濃度高低，都不應該驗出，長期暴露，可能會導致白血病。食藥署接獲檢舉後重驗，發現油品中苯的含量，在3到4個ppb，在容許範圍內，比國內飲用水標準5ppb還低，業者也大聲喊冤。 ==食藥署簡任技正 鄭維智== 從國際的資料裡面 可以看得到植物油 它所含有的苯的含量 大概是在100ppb以下 這樣的一個背景值 因此這一個部分是屬於 背景值的一部分 因此消費者不需要恐慌 ==業者 黃祥蓉== 生活中含有微量的苯 空氣中有 水中有 甚至於母乳中都有 那我們能因為母乳中有微量的苯 就說它是毒奶嗎 雖然油品中的笨含量，遠低於環境背景容許值，不過毒物科醫師顏宗海認為，既然苯是有毒的致癌物，國內尚未有相關標準，政府應該要盡速訂定，才能讓業者有所依據，也能讓民眾放心。 綜合報導