Interpretation of Chinese tea safety standards different from the European Union

        food safety issues have never been news, more recently.

 
        long ago, Greenpeace issued a test for pesticide residues in tea survey report, the report pointed out, including the famous brand " " owners; Lipton; Unilever, 9 domestic tea enterprises detected production of pesticide residues. At the same time, the report also told consumers such a message, many of the Chinese food standards of tea in Europe is not qualified, and China's pesticide residue limit standard than Europe 30 times more relaxed. In response to the public's growing doubts, the Ministry of agriculture and the Ministry of health responded that China's standards are safe.
Why Chinese standards are lower than the European Union, does that mean that the tea produced in accordance with Chinese standards will bring more insecurity? Because of ", the worst dairy standard in the world, " first, China's regulators once again fall into public distrust: why don't you raise standards and ignore public health?

 
        of course, all the accusations against Chinese food standards have an implicit premise: that is, the higher the standards of food. If purely from a technical point of view, the higher standards certainly lead to healthier foods - because high standards tend to mean less side effects. But the question is, can high standards exist in a vacuum without paying extra costs? Even, can we further ask: is the standard high to a certain extent will not affect the health of the human body? Therefore, it is necessary for us to begin with the role of standards in modern society.
With the gradual expansion of the social division of labor and product technology standard complex, plays an increasingly important role in the modern society, a very important reason is that the vast majority of consumers can not rely on their knowledge and ability to judge the quality of the products. When consumers can not identify the performance of these products, these products can not get the favor of consumers in the market. How to avoid this kind of information asymmetry? The emergence of standards solves the problem of consumer confidence - because a product conforming to a standard is considered to meet the basic safety requirements and does not pose a serious adverse effect on the human.

 
        then, where should the standard be appropriate? In most public opinion, when met certain standards, it will not adversely affect the health of the human body. But the scientific research tells us that no risk behavior does not exist in the world, life is full of risks, and these risks are not based on the purpose of a party, but under the existing technical conditions is bound to happen. In 1979, American scholar Richard · Wilson; statistics of the annual death risk in modern society to increase the risks of a millionth of the lot, there seems to be no dangerous behavior, actually may lead to death, including 1.4 cigarettes per day, bicycle travel 10 miles a year, drink drinking water in Miami city etc..