Disposable paper cups are toxic for drinking hot water? Beware of such poor quality paper cups!

A disposable paper cups really can not drink hot water?

1, disposable paper cups filled with hot water, water temperature over 40 ℃, the wax coating inside the cup will melt?

Wrong!

Disposable paper cups do have a smooth layer on the inner wall, a small part of the coating is paraffin wax, most of the coating is polyethylene, are very safe.

Paraffin is a safe material for food contact according to national standards. The melting point of paraffin wax is quite high, up to over 200 degrees. Even boiling water can't make it melt.

2, disposable paper cups pour the first cup of water can not drink, to start scalding 5 minutes to dissolve the harmful substances out of the pour first?

Wrong!

Polyethylene, polypropylene are pure polymers do not contain harmful substances, there is no dissolution of harmful substances.

In the production process of paper cups, it is indeed necessary to go through a high-temperature disinfection and sterilisation process, and there is no need for consumers to sterilise the cups themselves.

The most that can be done is to remove any dust that may be on the inside of the cups by shaking the cups with water.

Does that mean you can drink from disposable paper cups with complete peace of mind?

Beware of poor quality paper cups!

Disposable paper cup profits are very low, is the three products of the disaster area, with poor quality paper cups filled with water, then may ...... easier to leak.

If you load cool water is at most a wet body, but if the hot water, people are scalded is very bad.

Third, how to identify poor quality paper cups?

1, the inner membrane should not be uneven

If the disposable paper cup spraying process is poor, it is easy to leak.

Ideal paper cups, the inner lamination will be very uniform, wax film or plastic film are smooth. With the help of light, take the right angle, observe the spraying of the inner film of the paper cup, you can simply judge with the naked eye.

2, the outside of the cup from the mouth of the cup within 15 mm, it is strictly prohibited to print any pattern

National paper cups for the material, shape, additives, etc., there are detailed regulations, including the cup body pattern printing standards.

When drinking, our lower lips will touch the outside of the cup body, the ink printed on the disposable paper cup body is easy to come off, and the ink has a certain degree of insecurity.

According to the national standard, it is strictly prohibited to print any design on the outside of the cup within 15mm from the mouth.

In many cases, we cannot see the QS (product quality and safety) mark, the production information, or the date of production on the cups. But if the paper cups from regular manufacturers, at least in the printing is certainly up to standard, which can be identified at a glance.

3, paper cups without choking odour

Sometimes buy back the cup looks pretty good quality, but feel the smell, and is a choking acidic smell, it can be basically concluded that the paper material caused by mould.

Although the paper cups do not have a shelf life, but the home to buy paper cups or do not store for too long, especially in the more humid areas of the South.

If you buy from the regular channels have a bad smell of paper cups, you should look for the business co-ordination of the return.