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一 |          Officials and industry leaders highlight rising demand and deeper cooperation    Soybeans, carried as ballast on the return voyage from Asia to America some 200 years ago, have become a ballast of China-U.S. agricultural trade.     Susan Thornton, former acting U.S. assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, offered the historical footnote to a room where "ballast" had already become the word of the day.    "So that kind of makes this word ballast even more, I think, essential for our U.S.-China agricultural trade," she told the gathering, organized by the U.S. Soybean Export Council, or USSEC, during its annual Soy Connext conference held in Chicago on Friday.    The event drew U.S. and Chinese officials, U.S. soy industry leaders, and a Chinese delegation of traders and representatives from oil crushing, food and feed companies.    Chinese Consul General in Chicago Wang Baodong said soybeans have served for many years "as an important bridge in China-U.S. agricultural cooperation, and the soybean trade has been a ballast of the broader part for economic and trade relationship".    China is home to the world's largest market for agricultural products, he noted, and high-quality U.S. soybeans help meet rising demand from Chinese consumers while generating income and supporting jobs in U.S. farm communities.    Those were the good old days, Wang said, recalling that 2022 marked the highest level ever for U.S. agricultural and soybean exports to China. The good old days, he added, came to an abrupt halt last year.    "The U.S. government launched the tariff and trade war against China, and China was compelled to take necessary countermeasures, and as a result, soybean trade between our two countries was disrupted for a period of time, and American farmers became a victim and bore much of the cost, which was never an outcome China wished to see," he said.    "There are no winners in tariff and trade wars," Wang said. "As we see it, equality, mutual respect, and mutual benefit remain the right way for China and the U.S. to get along with each other and achieve win-win cooperation."    Wang also pointed to the opportunity for U.S. soy farmers. This year marks the beginning of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, he said, with the country advancing high-quality development and high-standard opening-up while continuing to improve its business and investment environment.    Promising prospects    As living standards keep rising, he said, Chinese demand for agricultural products from around the world, including the United States, will continue to grow. The prospects for high-quality U.S. soybean exports to China, in his view, remain promising.    Cao Derong, president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products, or CFNA, echoed the view. "Economic and trade relations should continue to serve as the ballast and propeller of China-U.S. relations, not as barriers or flashpoints," Cao said in a video message.    The CFNA remains committed to maintaining and strengthening exchanges between the Chinese and U.S. soybean sectors, Cao said.    He said the chamber this year hosted a visiting U.S. soybean association delegation as well as representatives from the Indiana Soybean Alliance, and said he hoped to see dialogue between the two sides deepen further.    Mike McCranie, chair of USSEC, has watched that relationship grow alongside his own career. He first visited China in 1982 and raised his first soybeans 40 years ago.    "It has changed a lot since then. I have been to China five times, developing great relationships. I really value those relationships," he said.    Thornton described the trade as a "textbook case" of two economies growing into each other.    U.S. soybean yields have skyrocketed in recent decades on the back of technology and precision agriculture, she said, and that leap coincided with China's dramatic rise in living standards and a growing appetite for pork and poultry, which in turn drove the demand for livestock feed.    The United States and China operate two of the most complex food systems in the world, and she described them as highly complementary.    As major producers, consumers and traders of agricultural products, the two countries share a responsibility to ensure the global food supply remains stable, sustainable, high-quality and abundant, she said.                    。    为什么能炒作起来？是很多人完全不了解苯甲酸钠（很多人看到苯这个词就自动脑补了），其实经常与它同时出场的还有山梨酸钾，很多食品、饮料中都可以看到它们的存在，因为这是两种最为常用的防腐剂了，可以抑制霉菌，酵母菌和好氧性细菌的活性，还能防止肉毒杆菌、葡萄球菌、沙门氏菌等有害微生物的生长和繁殖。它们的优点很多人不关注，然而在短视频平台传播的主要是说它们的缺点，特别是苯甲酸钠的致癌性，甚至还有人引用国外的研究，证明每天给小鼠使用0.4克的苯甲酸钠一个月后就可能导致病变的情况，这让不少人闻之色变。事实如何呢？学过化工的都直到一句话，抛开剂量谈毒性就是耍流氓，先不说小鼠试验得出的结论是否适用于人类，退一步讲就算是研究结论成立，那人类每天食用多少才可能导致癌变？这个事已经有微博大V@蘸盐给算过了，按照国家标准、一家三口正常做饭及小鼠数据来换算，如果要达到小鼠病变的标准，正常人每天要吃400克苯甲酸钠，相当于每天喝400公斤酱油，添加剂超标4万倍才行。

二 | 这样算起来，按照国外研究的结论，人类不用等苯甲酸钠可能的癌变，每天喝400公斤酱油就出问题了，哪怕是光喝水也会导致水中毒的。总之，面对网上的各种耸人听闻的食品安全视频，特别是现在短视频上的各种言论，大家还是长点心为好，现代食品工业带来的科技进步让所有人都能吃上便宜、安全的美食，小小的苯甲酸钠也是功不可没，没必要谈之色变，更不要妖魔化合法合规的食品添加剂，包括三花淡奶。至于没有添加剂的食品，很多人对这种想象中的天然食品往往有脑补的加成，事实上稍微经历过北方农村自酿酱油、大酱的网友可能还有点印象，自酿酱油是否安全卫生不说，这种没有添加剂的酱油是保存不了多久的，很多人是没体验过酱油、黄酱生虫（至于是什么虫，北方网友可能都懂）的恶心情况吧。

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