You have a home melamine dishes? Throw it out immediately!

Today in shops and markets a huge range of different dishes: both very cheap and quite expensive. Many people for the holiday feast purchase metal or porcelain, and for everyday use using more simple options. Cheap products are imported from Jordan, Turkey and China. Often among them catches melamine tableware. Beautiful and convenient in everyday use, it is a great danger to our health.

Poison in the plate

Officially melamine tableware on the territory of Russia as food utensils is prohibited. This is due to the fact that it contains insidious polymer. When a person acquires, melamine "sewn". But if to pour in a dish liquid, for example, ordinary water, immediately starts to be released formaldehyde, which is well dissolved in the contents of the plates. It takes about a month, and melamine dishes (photo below) is covered with small microcracks, which begin to get stuck small particles of food. To these virtues is added the harmful effects of formaldehyde. Influencing the digestive and circulatory system, it can contribute to eczema, cancer, severe allergic reactions and chronic bronchitis. Theoretically, melamine dishes can provoke the mutation of human genes and thereby cause hereditary diseases among the younger generation. Formaldehyde have a strong detrimental effect on the Central apparatus of the nervous system that adversely affect the respiratory tract, reproductive organs, eyes and skin. Because of all this melamine tableware is not even fit for dogs and cats. Those who doubt the dangers, you can read the latest research employees of the CPS. The results of several independent tests surprised even chemists with years of experience: beginning in a melamine bowl filled a little ordinary vinegar (4%). Then they left for the day, and then missed the contents of dishes through chromatograph. What do you think, how many times was the legal limit for formaldehyde? Not two and not three, and not even in ten-as many as 65!

How to recognize in time the danger

To Find out melamine plates are available at following features: it is lightweight, and shatterproof, easy to clean. The appearance of such utensils is somewhat reminiscent of the French ware from special household glass (arcopal, arcoros). Compared to porcelain or glass, it is much easier. If you knock on it with a wooden object, then you will hear high-sounding, deaf, “dead” sound. Usually a milky white color. Unfortunately, now on the shelves comes even melamine dishes for children. Unscrupulous manufacturers have successfully used bright bears, hedgehogs and flowers to increase their sales volumes. But if you look closely, the cartoon drawings applied without any protective layer, and the back of the stamp catches "melamin”. However, this warning may simply be absent. Afraid of what the sellers themselves often do not know what “gene” hidden in the assortment of their products. Of course, the government is struggling with this, but to rely on the vigilance of the relevant authorities, knowing the kind of resourcefulness can be entrepreneurs, not worth it. Therefore, we recommend to exercise the utmost attention to while choosing home furnishings.