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How to identify food grade silicone rubber?

2021/04/23

The most common kinds of silicone rubber products, can be divided into ordinary silicone rubber products and food grade silicone products.

 

Food grade silicone commodities irreplaceable characteristics, avirulent insipidity is the basic first, then use the life and property must be outstanding, compared with other ordinary material difference lies in the high temperature deformation, stronger toughness degrees, such as the fall will not bump, long-term twists and turns, kneading, non-stick oil, long-term place not moldy, color features,This is also common materials and other materials can not be compared.

 

Silicone rubber is widely used in food, all kinds of silicone rubber kitchen utensils, silicone rubber tableware can be produced, and it is absolutely through quality inspection.In fact, food-grade silicone rubber, commonly used in pressure cookers to seal gaskets, can be found in everyday homes. It is easy to clean and non-toxic.Its application in the kitchenware industry can be seen everywhere, to silicone rubber shovel for example, its characteristics are flexible, more fit the bottom of the pot, its water resistance, oil resistance, non-stick pot, easy to clean the characteristics are also loved by the majority of consumers.Silicone rubber nipple, even if it is boiled in boiling water, will not be deformed, will not produce odor, etc., with many advantages, so it has become the choice of many parents.

 

Do you know how to identify food grade silicone rubber?

 

1. The smell. Pungent smell is ordinary silicone rubber, on the contrary is food grade silicone rubber.Common silicone rubber with pungent smell, is not environmentally friendly silicone rubber.The food grade silicone rubber is non-toxic and odorless, which is environmentally friendly silicone rubber.

 

2. Pull. Pull the silicone product in the opposite direction. If the product become white and can smell the pungent taste, it shows that it is ordinary silicone rubber, on the contrary, it is food-grade silicone rubber.(sometimes pull up not white, because the manufacturer in the production of vulcanization process has a by-product generation, so there will be a light smell, but the same is food grade silicone rubber, which will not affect the quality of the product, and this smell can be eliminated by itself).

 

3. Baking method. In addition to special silicone rubber, the temperature resistance of ordinary silicone rubber can only reach about 150 degrees, and food grade silicone rubber can withstand high temperature of 250 degrees, temperature resistance of up to 350 degrees in a short time.

 

4. Require the manufacturers to improve the FDA/LFGB or other credentials.