The chemical enterprises in Mianzhu and Shifang under the jurisdiction of Deyang City in Sichuan Province are concentrated, and the cadmium contamination of the arable land is serious, the sales chain of cadmium-exceeding rice is almost open, the supervision is multi-layered and derelict, and corruption is involved.
The Chinese Communist authorities admitted through the official media that the Ministry of Land and Resources is drawing up a “soil heavy metal pollution map” on the mainland, which shows the seriousness of the contamination of arable land on the mainland. The Southern Metropolis Daily revealed that 10% of the mainland’s commercially available rice exceeds the cadmium standard, and that a soil contamination investigation report costing 1 billion yuan has been deemed a “state secret” and not made public. (Peter PARKS/AFP)
According to the “Half Moon” report on January 28, the recent high price of rice, the price of cadmium exceeds the standard rice in Deyang City than ordinary rice supply. The cheapest finished rice costs 4,250 yuan (RMB, same below) per ton, while cadmium-exceeding rice costs only 3,600 to 3,700 yuan per ton.
As a heavy metal element, cadmium is extremely harmful to human body and can damage kidneys and bones. Chemical enterprises discharge, in which the cadmium flows into the nearby rice fields along the water, is the main reason why the cadmium of rice exceeds the standard. Deyang, one of the country’s four major phosphate production bases, has been a persistent problem with serious pollution of its arable land.
Informed sources revealed to the “Half Moon”, in order to avoid the risk, usually want to buy cadmium exceeds the standard rice processing plant or distributor will find a “reliable” winery to help to purchase brewing raw materials “to cover”, according to the local language is to borrow the winery “whitewash”.
It is worth noting that several grain vendors in Deyang revealed separately that the destination of cadmium exceeds the standard rice to the state-owned grain reserves.
According to a reporting material, the content involves reporting that the person in charge of a provincial grain depot in Deyang will cadmium exceeds the standard rice sold to a processing enterprise at a low price, illegally reap the benefits. In a related recording, Zhang, the son of the person in charge of the processing enterprise, said, “The rice in the granary that does not exceed the standard can also be ‘made’ to exceed the standard.”
“There is no way, farmers grow Food on polluted land, plant out state-owned grain depots will have to collect, otherwise it will cause rural instability.” The head of a local state-owned grain bank in Mianzhu City said. 2018 to 2020, Deyang City, the local policy on heavy metal exceeded the standard rice acquisition.
Many grain vendors and farmers have said that there is no regulatory authority to do professional testing when acquiring rice. “It’s just by the teeth, to see the dryness and humidity.”
In addition to heavy metal pollution sources originating from heavy chemical industries, agricultural input abuse and exogenous pollution have also become the main culprits of heavy metal pollution in Chinese agricultural products such as toxic rice.
In response, the Communist Party’s CCTV has quoted experts’ advice that “one should not consume food produced in one place for a long Time, but should decentralize it as much as possible to reduce the risk.”
This statement drew strong criticism from netizens. One netizen said, “Instead of advising how to manage and eliminate toxic rice, the CCTV expert suggested that toxic rice should always be eaten with different brands, which really makes people speechless.” “Experts mean to let us try all kinds of poisonous rice, to fight poison with poison! Knowing that it is toxic rice, and still let this kind of grain into the market for the people to eat, is there still clean food in the country?”
In October 2020, the news released by the “China Judicial Documents Network” showed that more than 2,500 tons of cadmium-exceeding rice were mixed into the national grain reserve transit depot in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, for two to three years. In April of the same year, the incident of tainted rice was also exposed, involving seven enterprises in Yiyang City, Hunan Province. Some of the poisoned rice has been made into rice noodles flowing to Yunnan and many other places, and the remaining amount of cadmium-exceeding toxic rice is about 99.42 tons.
After the exposure of cadmium-exceeding toxic rice in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, in November 2017, local villagers were found to be still eating the toxic rice in November of the following year; when the cadmium rice incident broke out in Guangdong in 2013, local Communist Party officials said that “cadmium-exceeding rice is not toxic rice, and it is fine to eat it for a year or two.” His remarks were criticized by public opinion.
In 2006, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Grain was reported to have sold aged grain. Although the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Grain publicly denied that the aged grain had entered the market, the Beijing Bureau of Industry and Commerce seized 2,310 tons of cancer-causing aged poisonous rice in the market, which was confirmed to be distributed by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Grain.
Aged and tainted rice contains a large number of carcinogenic substances, including aflatoxin, the most powerful chemical carcinogen found to date. Toxic rice entered the market openly and spread nationwide, with tons of toxic rice appearing in Hunan, Hubei, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Liaoning, Sichuan and Hunan. There are even cases of poisoned rice adulterated with good rice, and people have no way to tell the difference.
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