People's demand for food is higher and higher, from the past just can satisfy the stomach, to today's demand for both color and flavor. In the busy life, from morning to night, a large variety of food needs to be consumed, and with it, plastic bags can be seen everywhere. Many friends in the purchase and use of food with plastic bags often into the mistake, the following to teach you how to get out of the mistake, the correct purchase and use of food with plastic bags. According to whether plastic shopping bags are in contact with food or not, they can be divided into plastic shopping bags for direct contact with food and plastic bags for non-food contact. The impact of shopping bags for direct contact with food on food safety is mainly due to the migration of potentially harmful substances in plastic packaging materials into food under certain conditions, and then absorbed by human body, thus endangering human health. 1. Classification: At present, the commonly used food plastic bags on the market are divided into the following types: BB/T 0039-2013 "Commodity Retail Packaging Bag" handle type, non-handle type, where the direct contact with food packaging bag should be marked "food use". Non-handle type can be divided into flat pocket, even roll bag and other bags without lifting mouth; GB/T 21661-2020 "Plastic shopping bags" are all hand-held bags, which are divided into food direct contact plastic shopping bags and non-food contact plastic shopping bags according to whether they contact food or not; There are pla powder. GB/T 38082-2019 "Biodegradable plastic shopping bags" are all hand-held bags. According to whether they contact food, they are divided into biodegradable plastic shopping bags for direct food contact and biodegradable plastic shopping bags for non-food contact. GB/T 38079-2019 "Starch based plastic shopping bag" are all hand-shaped bags, according to whether contact with food, divided into food direct contact with starch based plastic shopping bags and non-food contact with starch based plastic shopping bags. 2. Harm: The thing that eats plastic bag for a long time, can you have harm to the body? Long-term consumption of non-food food in plastic bags may cause dizziness, nausea and other symptoms, and even affect mental development. The reason why food in plastic bags is said to be a cancer risk is that some plastic bags contain plasticizers. Plasticizer can make the cohesion of plastic bags stronger, plastic itself is not harmful to the human body, and plasticizer is a certain harm, but the melting point of plasticizer is very high, generally will not be dissolved out. But if long-term consumption of non-food with plastic bags containing some high temperature food, it may cause certain harm to the body. Plastic bag with high temperature food, what harm to human body? Plasticizer in plastic bags, if encountered with high temperature and oil, may cause the plasticizer to migrate to food. Plasticizer has certain damage to the reproductive system of both men and women, leading to the occurrence of testicular hypoplasia syndrome in men, and the decrease of progesterone and estrogen in women. Secondly, plasticizer will affect children's endocrine system, resulting in incomplete reproductive function development, and the harm of plasticizer to children is higher than that of adults. Moreover, plasticizer has certain toxicity, when entering the human body will cause the burden of liver increase, may induce hepatitis. In addition, it will affect gastrointestinal health, induce gastric ulcer and other diseases. In addition, it may also lead to the transfer of heavy metals in plastic bags to food, causing certain effects on human blood system and intellectual development. Many plastic bags for food are single-use plastic bags, which may not be produced by regular manufacturers, or even recycled plastic, without rigorous disinfection and packaging. This will lead to a certain number of viruses, bacteria and carcinogens in the disposable plastic, and in the high temperature can produce a variety of toxic substances, these toxic substances will continue to migrate to food. Therefore, it is recommended not to use non-food grade plastic bags to pack some food in life, and must choose food grade plastic bags to contain food, avoid contact with high temperature and high fat food. 3. Choose and buy: Food grade plastic bags are plastic bags produced from pure raw materials, the color is generally resin color or white, and should be printed with product name, standard number, manufacturer, production license number, specifications, load-bearing and environmental protection and safety statements. However, some vendors still sell food with incomplete labels, and some even use colored plastic bags. What kind of plastic bag is safe for food? "One look, two smell, three touch" tips to remember. Take a look at the sign. In the national standard requirements for direct contact with food plastic bags should be printed with the words "food", or printed with the words "food direct contact with", and the nominal thickness should not be less than 0.030mm, do not choose those logo is not complete plastic bags. At the same time, it is required in GB/T 21661-2020 that plastic shopping bags should not have accessories outside the bag body, such as hanging ears. Even if the plastic bag is transparent, it should be placed in a well-lit place to see if there are any impurities. And don't choose colored plastic bags for food because they may be made of recycled plastic. Take a second smell. Poor quality plastic bags will add filling, re-raw materials and so on to the raw materials, and the odor is heavy. When food plastic bags leave the factory, they have no odor and no odor. Plastic bags with special smell can not be used to contain food. "Three touch" feel the hand. Poor quality plastic bags will contain impurities, bag surface is rough, touch the rough, there will be sticky, astringent feeling. Since plastic packaging bags are not easy to degrade, they will cause environmental pollution. Therefore, it is better to use less plastic bags when buying food, and more cloth bags, paper bags and degradable environmental plastic shopping bags to avoid "white pollution". 4. Use: There are three points to pay attention to when using plastic bags safely The Internet said that plastic bags cause cancer, is based on the wrong use of plastic bags, so how should we safely use plastic bags in life? (1) Because of direct contact with food, it is recommended that you choose food grade plastic bags, and also pay attention to whether marked "production license number", "manufacturer", "food" and so on. (2) Food with plastic bags in high temperature environment, it is likely to release harmful substances into the food, these substances have a high risk of cancer, we should avoid using plastic bags to pack high temperature food, also do not put in the microwave oven heating. (3) Food plastic bags are not recommended for repeated use. Because plastic bags in contact with different foods, may lead to a lot of bacteria and mold will grow, food is more likely to rot and spoil.