Experimental Ministry of Health: All fish oils are porous

According to information from the Ministry of Health, after conducting fish oil testing on the market, all are safe and porous.

After having information on omega 3 fish oil corroding foam boxes that confuse public opinion, the Ministry of Health had a press conference on this issue. Here, the Ministry of Health and doctors directly experimented to prove that all fish oils are porous.

Doctors at the Institute of Food Hygiene and Safety test directly with 3 fish oil products of the US, China and Vietnam. After 7 minutes, the foam is markedly corroded. In which US products are most corrosive.

The doctor explained that it was the most esterified product . However, more or less ester is to extend the shelf life, not preservatives. Ester slows down less corrosive, shorter storage time. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong - Director of the Department of Food Safety of the Ministry of Health said that people are not foam boxes so they are not afraid of corrosion.

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The Ministry of Health has experimented immediately in front of reporters on the porous nature of omega 3 fish oil.

Previously, public opinion was worried about the phenomenon in Quang Ngai, consumers discovered two bottles of fish oil have signs of erosive porosity and announced to Quang Ngai Food Safety Department.

Immediately after receiving this information, the Department of Food Safety directed Quang Ngai Food Safety Department to report the contents of the incident and request the National Institute of Food Hygiene and Safety to take Samples and analysis of fish oils are functional foods that are circulating in the market.

In the night of January 6, the National Institute of Hygiene and Food Safety conducted tests on different types of fish oils: the US, Europe, China and Vietnam. Fish oil is both porous and analyzed on the results machine. By the morning of January 7, 2016, it was found that there was no abnormal food safety for the fish oils mentioned above.

As well as directing the relevant units, the Food Safety Department immediately contacted international organizations and leading international experts on food safety to find out information about the problem. this.


Video Ministry of Health experimental fish oil corrosion foam box.

According to information from experts, natural fish oil contains non-esterified fats. But if so, fish oil will decompose. So to ensure stability and to create other beneficial properties, fish oils are all esterified . With such an esterified fat nature, all fish oils have the effect of melting foam (polystyrene component) and the time of dissolution is fast or slow depending on different types of fish oils.

Mr. Phong said, human body is not like foam box, when using fish oil, there will be no such interaction, so it will not cause any effect on health. Fish oil is absorbed by the human body and transformed into healthy substances.

Particularly for two cases of fish oil vial in Quang Ngai, the Quang Ngai Department of Food Safety and Hygiene has investigated to clarify that this is not an official product imported into Vietnam and not a product of Cong. Vietnamese Star company which is a floating product of unknown origin.


Results of experimental fish oil corrosion foam box.

The Department of Food Safety recommends that consumers not bewildered, do not buy and use food in general, functional foods in particular without origin.