Yesterday, the National People's Congress, Shiyan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Chen Tian will submit recommendations to the National People's Congress, said that adding food additives in drinking water may damage people's health, proposed to be prohibited.

Chen Tian would say, in the domestic water market, is currently the most typical food additives added products in various brands of "mineral water." These products are generally city water for the water, made of pure water, and then add potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, sodium chloride and other additives and made 2-3.

He said that research he learned that some manufacturers claim to add a food additive is intended to "regulate the taste of pure water", and its real purpose is for economic benefits to the so-called "mineral water" in the name of the grandstanding, to attract consumers, and baseless "beneficial to human health" misleading publicity. He said that 80%of the mineral water market is made of artificial food additives added.

Chen Tian would think that, in drinking water without the need to add food additives. He suggested that food additives added to drinking water, healthy relationship with the residents, organized by the national health administration department specific risk assessment. Prior to prohibit this practice.

concern is that, last year, the NPC, deputies have made the same recommendations in Jilin Province.

It is understood that the general prohibition of the developed countries or in drinking water very carefully add any food additive, the United States "Code of Federal Regulations," 21 clearly defined in Chapter 165, Add in the drinking water ban any food additive. The European Commission also requires that all food additives must be placed under permanent observation, with the emergence of new technologies to re-use of food additives evaluated.

National People's Congress, Wuhan University School of Public Health Dean Mao Zongfu that the current drinking water is a more feasible long-term risk assessment of food additives, and related standards changes. (AFP reporter Yang Lei)