Before making kimchi, did you check the cookware 'for food'?

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As we enter November, many people will start preparing to make kimchi.

When making kimchi, the cooking appliance is said to be as careful as the ingredients.

Health authorities emphasized that to eat healthy and delicious kimchi, make sure to check if it is for 'food' when using plastic cooking utensils.

This is reporter Lee Moon-seok.

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To make delicious kimchi, ingredients such as cabbage and red pepper powder must be good.

In addition, cooking utensils that make kimchi can also have an impact.

From rubber basins, rubber gloves, and rip-offs, as well as kimjang mats to vinyl.

When using plastic materials other than glass or stainless steel, it is necessary to make sure that it is 'for food'.For industrial purposes other than

'food use', hazardous substances such as heavy metals can be produced from the container itself.

In particular, phenol components contained in industrial plastics react with chlorine in tap water to create an odor and stomach-inducing substance called "chlorophenol".

[Choi Yoon-joo / Director of Food and Drug Administration's Additive Packaging Division: In the case of non-food products, harmful substances may be eluted, but the amount is not enough to harm the human body, but for consumer safety....]

{For food' cookware and containers have the words 'For food' or a picture of spoon and fork shape.

If you can't get a new one right away, you can put a "food-only" vinyl on it so that cabbage or tap water doesn't directly touch the container.

It is worth paying attention to industrial use, which is also commonly used by hoses connected to taps, because it contains phenol.

Every kimchi season, complaints are increasing that water smells disgusting at each waterworks office, and most of them are blamed for industrial hoses.

If you don't know the hose material, you can avoid worrying about ruining kimchi because of rubber hoses if you just get water from the faucet and use it.

I'm YTN's Lee Munseok.