Guangdong: Find 16 tons " The borax beef " Eating too many can cause death

Guangdong: Find 16 tons " The borax beef " Eating too many can cause death
On April 20, Foshan of Guangdong investigates and prosecutes to soak the pork and imitate the case of the beef with the borax recently, the quantity of the false beef of involving in case reaches more than 16,000 kilograms. It is reported, the borax is a noxious substance, there is too much edible quantity may cause death. Measured according to the relevant department, the content in soaking of borax was up to 3800mg/kg unexpectedly.
The borax is a kind of industrial chemicals, sodium boric acid is commonly called as, as the white or colourless crystallization powder, because toxicity is relatively high, the countries all over the world prohibit being used as the garniture of food more. Borax harmfulness in health very large, absorb, can accumulate in the body continuously, impair the function of enzyme of the digestive tract, its symptom of acute poisoning, for so-called boric acid such as vomiting, diarrhoea, erythema, circulatory system obstacle, shock, going into a coma. If the human body takes in too much boron, will initiate the accumulating poisoning of many internal organs. It is 1-3 grams that the adult of the borax is poisoned the dosage, adult's fatal dose is 15 grams, baby's fatal dose is 2-3 grams. At present, our country prohibits adding the borax in the food by official order.
Had the roughness to calculate that can know: Then the adult eats this kind " The borax beef " 1 kilogram will initiate the accumulating poisoning of many internal organs, over 5 kilograms can cause death, the baby causes death to only need 1 kilogram.
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