Used ZEN or ZEN derivatives α-ZAL(Animal Dazhuang) Residues in dairy products and meat products.
A study published in The Journal of Pediatrics in 2008 passed a blood test and directly pointed to ZEN the high risk of precocious puberty in girls in northwestern Italy.
Let’s take a look at the situation in our country. In 2012, researchers from Anhui Medical University analyzed the ZEN levels in the blood of 78 children diagnosed with precocious puberty from 2009 to 2010, and found that the ZEN levels in these Chinese children were significantly higher than those of their peers without precocious puberty.
As more and more evidence supports the effects of ZEN on children and human reproduction, the World Health Organization recommends that the human body’s daily tolerable maximum intake of ZEN is 0.5 micrograms, and the EU’s recommendation is per kilogram of body weight per day. 0.25 micrograms.
Although humans are beginning to realize the harm of ZEN, this does not mean that we have an effective way to remove it. Another danger of ZEN is that it is a very stable substance, even at a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius, ZEN will not decompose. In other words, ordinary households cannot remove ZEN from food by cooking.
The traditional physical and chemical methods cannot remove ZEN without destroying the nutrients of grains. Therefore, detoxification of grains with ZEN has become an agricultural technical problem.
The existing detoxification methods include enzymatic demolition agent, montmorillonite adsorption, etc., but these are only laboratory studies and have not been applied on a large scale. In daily life, the methods to remove ZEN are not beautiful, such as lime water soaking, chlorination and so on.
Because of the reproductive toxicity of ZEN to humans and livestock and the difficulty of detoxification, the European Union