CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the food safety issues in our country?

1. Food safety issues in my country

In recent years, there have been worrying problems in the field of food safety in my country. KFC's "Sudan Red", "Diaobai Block" in tofu, "Mouldy Green Vegetables" in dumplings, "Clenbuterol" to increase the amount of lean meat in animals, reduce feed use, bring meat to the market earlier, and reduce costs, dyed steamed buns, exploding watermelons, reheated bread, poisonous ginger, melamine in milk, chicken and pork can be easily processed into "beef paste" that tastes real, and the recent "plasticizer" incident in Taiwan, etc., are countless. These various food safety issues, like the current global financial crisis, have swept the entire earth, brought serious impacts on people's lives and health, and even touched everyone's hearts. Food safety incidents have made the people worried, so that some people have developed a fear of "eating animal food for fear of hormones, eating plant food for fear of toxins, and eating beverages and food for fear of pigments", but it also reflects from the side that there are many problems in today's food safety.

(1) The phenomenon of enterprises illegally producing and processing food cannot be ignored.

On the one hand, a small number of lawless elements illegally use food additives and non-food raw materials to produce and process food, adulterate and counterfeit food, which has a bad impact. On the other hand, the overall quality of the existing food industry is still at a low level. Manual and home processing methods with poor hygiene assurance capabilities account for a considerable proportion of food processing. Some practitioners have not even received a health examination. The unlicensed production and processing of food in rural areas and urban-rural fringe areas has been repeatedly banned, posing a major hidden danger to food safety.

(2) The business order in the food circulation link is not standardized.

First, many food companies are small and disorderly, with difficult traceability management, low level of grading and packaging, and even illegal use of unqualified packaging. Second, some companies use excessive amounts of preservatives and freshness-preserving agents during food procurement, storage and transportation. Third, some operators sell fake and inferior food and spoiled food. Others sell "three-no" food without factory name and address, factory certificate and shelf life, fake and inferior food in rural markets, urban-rural fringe areas and around campuses, seriously endangering the health of urban and rural residents and minors.

(3) The food safety standard system is lagging behind.

my country has different food industry standards at the national, industry, local and enterprise levels; national standards are divided into hygiene standards and product quality standards, which basically form a national food standard system consisting of basic standards, product standards, behavior standards and inspection method standards. However, my country's food standards are still far behind the actual needs of the food safety situation and the basic international food safety standards.

(IV) The detection level is low and cannot meet current needs.

my country's food safety inspection and testing institutions are distributed in multiple government departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. Multiple departments are engaged in the management of the same behavior, with similar entry points and management methods, which makes the already scarce resources even more stretched, affecting the supervision and deterrence of food safety. New rapid and sensitive detection methods are still mainly used in research units.

(V) The quality of the food safety assurance team needs to be improved

There is an extreme shortage of technical personnel with professional knowledge of food safety in food production, operation and management agencies. There is also an extreme shortage of technical personnel who understand both macro-management and professional knowledge and can ensure food safety and hygiene for consumers in food production departments, various farmers' markets, and food market management agencies. There is an inability to provide a scientific basis for the formulation of regulations and standards related to food safety technology, and there is a lack of monitoring networks and laboratory analysis methods.

2. Characteristics of Food Safety Issues in my country

There are three characteristics of food safety in my country: First, the scope of problematic foods is getting wider and wider. Problem foods have expanded from traditional staple and non-staple foods such as grains, oils, meat, poultry, eggs, beans, and aquatic products to fruits, alcohol, dry goods, dairy products, agricultural and sideline products, etc., showing a three-dimensional and all-round situation. Second, the degree of harm caused by problematic foods is getting deeper and deeper, and has moved from the hygienic hazards on the outside of the food to the safety hazards inside the food. In the past, we only paid attention to the total number of bacteria in the food, but now we pay attention to the pesticide, fertilizer, and chemical residues deep inside the food. Third, the means of making drugs and inferior products are becoming more and more diverse, more and more "deep", and more and more hidden, from the outside of the food to the inside, from physical to chemical. Judging from the exposed toxic and harmful foods, the methods of criminals in making drugs and counterfeiting are renewed and varied. It is not afraid that you can't do it, but that you can't think of it.

Sudan red duck eggs, peacock green fish and shrimp, melamine milk powder and milk, formaldehyde candy, cucumbers with flowers, exploding watermelons, gutter oil, dyed pepper, ink paraffin sweet potato powder, clenbuterol, fake beef (using beef paste to turn pork into beef), poisonous leeks in Nanyang, Henan, small silver fish soaked in formalin in Qingdao, dyed steamed buns, poisonous bean sprouts in Shenyang, poisonous ginger in Yichang, dyed cakes in Hefei, popcorn buckets in many cinemas in Beijing containing fluorescent brighteners, poisonous beans in Hainan, milk poisoning of students in Yulin, Shaanxi, 1,325 kilograms of "ink vermicelli" seized in Zhongshan, Guangdong, a company in Chongqing purchased 26 tons of melamine milk powder to produce ice cream, and "dyed seaweed" appeared in the Guangzhou market , Taiwan’s plasticizer-containing toxic foods, expired bread recycled and sold hot, bleached rice, flour whitening agent, sewer crayfish, hydrogen peroxide chicken feet, contraceptives to raise eels, hormone-dyed strawberries, E. coli-exceeding qingtuan, pesticide residues containing dichlorvos, spicy kelp shreds preserved with benzoic acid, poisonous bamboo shoots with sodium metabisulfite exceeding the standard by at least 144 times... Oh my God, we are still alive (I wanted to write an introduction, but there are too many)

Food from Japan's "nuclear contaminated areas" has appeared in China, rats are running around in Haidilao, sewers are being cleaned with a colanders, and "foot odor salt" has occurred in many places across the country, among other food safety incidents.

1. In March 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan leaked. China immediately banned the import of food from the area around the accident. However, CCTV's 315 Gala revealed that according to preliminary statistics from the Shenzhen Municipal Market Inspection Bureau, there are more than 13,000 online merchants in China suspected of selling Japanese nuclear-contaminated food, including Calbee cereal and many other popular imported snacks;

2. Media reports that rats were found in the kitchens of Haidilao's Beijing Sun Palace and Jinsong stores, hot pot colanders were used to clean sewers, and many other health and safety hazards. Subsequently, the Beijing Food and Drug Administration opened an investigation into Haidilao and required Haidilao headquarters to make the kitchens of all Beijing stores public, information-based, and visual within one month as promised;

3. In many provinces and cities across the country, a deep well rock salt (with iodine) produced by Henan Pingdingshan Shenying Salt Co., Ltd. with the trademark name "Daiyanren" has appeared. The salt has a peculiar smell and emits a strong foot odor when heated or rubbed by hand.

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The food traceability system combines the company's own constraints with public supervision, which is a strong guarantee for food safety. As an expert who has studied the traceability field for many years, Huagong Saibai is also the "smart steward" of food safety. The quality traceability system provided to enterprises can achieve effective traceability of product quality from production to sales.

Whitening agents in steamed bread, flavor enhancers in food, waste cooking oil, preservatives in food transportation, pesticides in vegetables, heavy metals in the soil, Sudan red in some foods, nematodes in seafood, clenbuterol, three-no products. In addition, it was found that some mung bean sprouts on the market contain nitrogen fertilizers; some beautiful vegetable stems are pickled with ammonia water.

The pass rate of soy products is not high

The qualified rate of bean products is not high, mainly reflected in the common use of "Diaobaikuai" in yuba products favored by housewives. The "Fujian-produced" yuba products found on the market are basically unqualified, mainly because the lawbreakers, driven by profit, illegally use the harmful substance "Diaobaikuai" and the inedible chemical raw material "gelatin" in order to make the yuba white, tougher and smoother. In addition, a small number of grains and their products have also been found to use "Diaobaikuai".

Formalin soaking of aquatic products

In order to preserve and extend the shelf life, some unscrupulous vendors use formalin to soak aquatic products such as water chestnuts and "little spiders". The formaldehyde content of some aquatic products is seriously exceeded.

Use of dichlorvos in processing fish jerky

High-salt dried fish no longer suits consumers' tastes, so some producers and processors have started to think crookedly. They use pesticides such as dichlorvos and trichlorfon to repel flies when processing low-salt dried fish, which seriously endangers consumers' health. In August last year, the Municipal Health Bureau investigated and dealt with 7 cases of illegal production of harmful and toxic foods, all of which have been transferred to judicial organs for criminal prosecution. At present, three cases have been concluded and the parties involved have been punished by law.

The content of benzoic acid in pickled food exceeds the standard

Since most of the preservatives currently in use are artificially synthesized chemicals, long-term excessive intake will cause harm to the human body. Therefore, on April 12, the Municipal Consumer Committee issued the 2004 No. 2 Consumer Warning, "Be careful when eating pickled vegetables." The Municipal Consumer Committee, together with the Municipal Industrial and Commercial Department, recently sampled a total of nine products from three shopping malls, including Baixing Supermarket, Renben Supermarket Yueqing Shopping Mall and Lecheng Town Xinxixi Candy Wholesale Center, including canned lychees, skinless tangerine slices, beef cubes, delicious snow vegetables, etc., and entrusted the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct inspections. After inspection, it was found that the benzoic acid content in the "Country Bum" pickled mustard tuber (production date, batch number: 20040129) produced by Tongxiang Zhongnan Vegetable Food Co., Ltd. and the "Delicious" snow vegetables (production date, batch number: 20031219) produced by Taizhou Jiaojiang Minhui Pickle Factory and sold by Baixing Supermarket exceeded the standard content of less than or equal to 0.5 grams per kilogram stipulated in the "GB2714-1996 Sanitary Standards for Pickles", reaching 1.46 grams per kilogram and 1.36 grams per kilogram respectively.

Whitening agents in steamed bread, flavor enhancers in food, waste cooking oil, preservatives in food transportation, pesticides in vegetables, heavy metals in the soil, Sudan red in some foods, nematodes in seafood, clenbuterol, three-no products. In addition, it was found that some mung bean sprouts on the market contain nitrogen fertilizers; some beautiful vegetable stems are pickled with ammonia water.

The pass rate of soy products is not high

The qualified rate of bean products is not high, mainly reflected in the common use of "Diaobaikuai" in yuba products favored by housewives. The "Fujian-produced" yuba products found on the market are basically unqualified, mainly because the lawbreakers, driven by profit, illegally use the harmful substance "Diaobaikuai" and the inedible chemical raw material "gelatin" in order to make the yuba white, tougher and smoother. In addition, a small number of grains and their products have also been found to use "Diaobaikuai".

Formalin soaking of aquatic products

In order to preserve and extend the shelf life, some unscrupulous vendors use formalin to soak aquatic products such as water chestnuts and "little spiders". The formaldehyde content of some aquatic products is seriously exceeded.

Use of dichlorvos in processing fish jerky

High-salt dried fish no longer suits consumers' tastes, so some producers and processors have started to think crookedly. They use pesticides such as dichlorvos and trichlorfon to repel flies when processing low-salt dried fish, which seriously endangers consumers' health. In August last year, the Municipal Health Bureau investigated and dealt with 7 cases of illegal production of harmful and toxic foods, all of which have been transferred to judicial organs for criminal prosecution. At present, three cases have been concluded and the parties involved have been punished by law.

The content of benzoic acid in pickled food exceeds the standard

Since most of the preservatives currently in use are artificially synthesized chemicals, long-term excessive intake will cause harm to the human body. Therefore, on April 12, the Municipal Consumer Committee issued the 2004 No. 2 Consumer Warning, "Be careful when eating pickled vegetables." The Municipal Consumer Committee, together with the Municipal Industrial and Commercial Department, recently sampled a total of nine products from three shopping malls, including Baixing Supermarket, Renben Supermarket Yueqing Shopping Mall and Lecheng Town Xinxixi Candy Wholesale Center, including canned lychees, skinless tangerine slices, beef cubes, delicious snow vegetables, etc., and entrusted the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct inspections. After inspection, it was found that the benzoic acid content in the "Country Bum" pickled mustard tuber (production date, batch number: 20040129) produced by Tongxiang Zhongnan Vegetable Food Co., Ltd. and the "Delicious" snow vegetables (production date, batch number: 20031219) produced by Taizhou Jiaojiang Minhui Pickle Factory and sold by Baixing Supermarket exceeded the standard content of less than or equal to 0.5 grams per kilogram stipulated in the "GB2714-1996 Sanitary Standards for Pickles", reaching 1.46 grams per kilogram and 1.36 grams per kilogram respectively.

Sudan red duck eggs, peacock green fish and shrimp, melamine milk powder and milk, formaldehyde candy, cucumbers with flowers, exploding watermelons, gutter oil, dyed pepper, ink paraffin sweet potato powder, clenbuterol, fake beef (using beef paste to turn pork into beef), poisonous leeks in Nanyang, Henan, small silver fish soaked in formalin in Qingdao, dyed steamed buns, poisonous bean sprouts in Shenyang, poisonous ginger in Yichang, dyed cakes in Hefei, popcorn buckets in many cinemas in Beijing containing fluorescent brighteners, poisonous beans in Hainan, milk poisoning of students in Yulin, Shaanxi, 1,325 kilograms of "ink vermicelli" seized in Zhongshan, Guangdong, a company in Chongqing purchased 26 tons of melamine milk powder to produce ice cream, and "dyed seaweed" appeared in the Guangzhou market , Taiwan’s plasticizer-containing toxic foods, expired bread recycled and sold hot, bleached rice, flour whitening agent, sewer crayfish, hydrogen peroxide chicken feet, contraceptives to raise eels, hormone-dyed strawberries, E. coli-exceeding qingtuan, pesticide residues containing dichlorvos, spicy kelp shreds preserved with benzoic acid, poisonous bamboo shoots with sodium metabisulfite exceeding the standard by at least 144 times... Oh my God, we are still alive (I wanted to write an introduction, but there are too many)

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1. Shuanghui Clenbuterol Incident

2. The poisonous leek incident in Nanyang, Henan

3. Milk nitrite poisoning incident in Pingliang, Gansu

4. Many places have reported using beef cream to turn pork into beef, and eating too much of it can cause cancer

5. Black sesame seeds soaked into "ink" for dyeing

6. Qingdao formalin soaked silver fish incident

7. Dyed bun incident

8. The poisonous bean sprout incident in Shenyang

9. Yichang Poisonous Ginger Incident

10. Expired bread is recycled and sold well

11. Hefei Dyed Cake Incident

12. Popcorn buckets in many cinemas in Beijing were found to contain fluorescent brighteners, which may cause cancer

13. The milk poisoning incident among students in Yulin, Shaanxi

14. 1,325 kg of "ink vermicelli" seized in Zhongshan, Guangdong

15. A company in Chongqing was seized for purchasing 26 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder to produce ice cream

16. "Dyed seaweed" appears in Guangzhou market, and the color still fades after being soaked many times

17. Eating pearls in bubble tea is like eating plastic