Do you have melamine dishes at home? Throw it out immediately!

To date, in shops and marketsThere is a huge assortment of different dishes: both very cheap and quite expensive. Many people buy metal or porcelain for a festive feast, and for everyday use use more simple options. Cheap products are imported from Jordan, Turkey and China. Often among them comes melamine dishes. Beautiful and comfortable in everyday life, it poses a huge danger to our health.

Poison in the plate

Officially melamine dishes on the territory of the Russian Federation inthe quality of food dishes is prohibited. This is due to the fact that it contains an insidious polymer. When a person acquires it, melamine is "sewn up." But if you pour liquid in such utensils, for example, ordinary water, then formaldehyde starts to be released immediately, which dissolves perfectly in the contents of the plate. It takes about a month, and melamine dishes (photo below) are covered with small microcracks, in which small particles of food begin to get stuck.

To these delights is added the harmful effectformaldehyde. Influencing the digestive and circulatory system, it can contribute to the emergence of eczema, cancer, severe allergic reactions and chronic bronchitis. Theoretically, melamine dishes can provoke a mutation of human genes and thereby cause hereditary diseases in the younger generation. Formaldehydes have a strong detrimental effect on the central apparatus of the nervous system, adversely affect the respiratory tract, reproductive organs, eyes and skin. Because of all this melamine dishes are not suitable even for dogs and cats. Those who doubt the dangers canto get acquainted with the latest research of workers of Rospotrebnadzor. The results of several independent tests were struck even by chemists with experience: at first melamine bowls were filled with a little ordinary table vinegar (4%). Then they were left for a day, and then they passed the contents of the dishes through the chromatograph. How many times have you exceeded the norm on formaldehyde? Not in two and not in three, or even in ten - in as many as 65!

How to recognize the danger in time

Learn melamine dishes by followingfeatured: it has a small weight, does not beat, it is easy to wash. The appearance of such utensils is somewhat reminiscent of French utensils made of special household glass (arcopal, arcoros). Compared with porcelain or glass, it is noticeably lighter. If you knock on it with a wooden object, you will hear a crackling, deaf, "dead" sound. Usually has milky-white color. Unfortunately, now even on the shelves, even melamine dishes for children come across. Unscrupulous producers successfully use bright bears, hedgehogs and flowers to increase their sales volumes. But if you look closely, the cartoon drawings are applied without any protective layer, and on the back side comes the stamp "melamin". However, such a warning may simply be absent. Frightening is that sellers themselves sometimes do not know which "gin" is hidden in the range of their goods. The state, of course, is struggling with this, but it is not worthwhile to rely on the vigilance of the relevant bodies, knowing what kind of resourcefulness entrepreneurs can show. Therefore, we recommend that you take the utmost care when choosing household items.