Yonghui Supermarket responds to 15 batches of unqualified tests (Photo source: Weibo screenshot)
Recently, the Fujian Provincial Administration of Market Supervision released a sampling report on food safety, showing that in the first quarter of this year, a total of 15 batches of food samples failed in many stores of China’s large supermarkets, such as Yonghui Supermarket in Fuzhou, Putian and Longyan. On April 12, Yonghui Supermarket responded to the unqualified sampling report by saying that the 15 batches were very few, depending on the total percentage. The response was considered by netizens as shifting the focus and perfunctory, and together with the news of the unqualified food of Yonghui Supermarket, it made it to the microblogging hot search list on the 12th. However, there are also informed sources revealing that the relevant departments of the Chinese Communist Party are mostly involved in corruption, and the company in question may not have paid the bribe in place to be officially retaliated.
Comprehensive mainland media reports, Fujian Provincial Administration of Market Supervision 2021 No. 2 – No. 9 food safety supervision and sampling information bulletin, Fujian Yonghui supermarket of unqualified food 15 batches, involving food for grass, ice squid, sea duck eggs, white duck, positive crab, vegetable moss, fish skin peanuts, ginger, pepper peanuts, etc., of which fresh, aquatic products in most of the oxyfloxacin, chloramphenicol, enrofloxacin, etc. failed Other problems include cadmium, lead, florfenicol, bifenthrin, aflatoxin exceeds the standard.
The report emphasized that the 15 batches of unqualified food in the Yonghui supermarket, the grass, ice squid, positive crab and other aquatic products, the number of failed sample tests reached 8 times.
According to public information, ofloxacin belongs to the quinolone class of drugs, with a wide antibacterial spectrum, strong activity and other characteristics, had been widely used in the prevention and treatment of bacterial diseases of livestock and poultry. According to the regulations, the use ofloxacin in food animals is discontinued (not detectable in animal food). Consumption of food with detected ofloxacin may cause dizziness, headache, poor sleep, gastrointestinal irritation and other symptoms.
Enrofloxacin belongs to the fluoroquinolones, a class of synthetic broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs, used for the treatment of skin infections, respiratory tract infections, etc., is the exclusive use of animals. According to the relevant regulations, the maximum residue limit of enrofloxacin in fish (skin + meat) and other animal muscles is 100μg/kg. long-term intake of food with enrofloxacin exceeding the limit may cause symptoms such as dizziness, headache, poor sleep, gastrointestinal irritation or discomfort.
And cadmium is one of the most common heavy metal element pollutants, which can be enriched in living organisms and enter the human body through the food chain, causing chronic poisoning. Cadmium poisoning symptoms are mainly manifested as arteriosclerosis, renal atrophy, nephritis, etc. Cadmium can replace part of the calcium in the bones, causing spasm due to osteoporosis and softening of the bones, causing natural fractures in serious cases, in addition to cadmium has been found to be carcinogenic and teratogenic. Cadmium can also lead to hypertension, causing cardiovascular disease; destroy bones and liver and kidneys, and can cause kidney failure.
Yonghui Supermarket is one of China’s large supermarkets and among the top 500 private enterprises in China. It is one of the first distribution enterprises in mainland China to introduce fresh agricultural products into modern supermarkets, and fresh products are also its main focus. As the saying goes, the people’s food is the sky, and the news that Yonghui was sampling 15 batches of unqualified products immediately sparked a hot debate on the Internet. on April 12, Zhang Jing Yi, secretary to the chairman of Yonghui Supermarket, responded under the public opinion that the 15 batches were very few in variety, depending on the total percentage. He pointed out: “Yonghui supermarket daily self-measurement up to more than 3,000 batches, a quarter of 90 days, basically nearly 300,000 times in the test, there are 15 batches of unqualified, you say more or less? Of course we have our own problems, self-testing more than 3,000 batches is impossible to detect all the goods.”
The response sparked a public backlash, and the topic #Yonghui Supermarket responded to 15 batches of food sampling failures # hit Weibo hot search in the evening of the 12th. Some netizens said, “The concept is changed, there are 15 batches of unqualified samples, how many are actually there?” The company’s main goal is to provide a more effective solution to the problem. Their own goods have problems, the face of the public did not have an attitude of admitting fault, but also blame the people prick?” The food that is safe is grown, raised and made, not tested. There are so many sampling money, why not use to help support growers and farmers, so that they scientific farming, legal compliance with the use of pesticides, veterinary drugs”, “means that these substandard products happen to be sampled? Illiterate response”, “This attitude is problematic, food safety, there is a lot of ah, of course, you do not bring your management of things to the people say, even according to your management of things, from the quality control, allowing the rate of defective products, as long as the control is within a certain range is acceptable, but Do you think this is what you are after? You do not go to the analysis? Do not go to the source to find the problem? And take him for granted? Of course increasing the pass rate represents higher costs.”
In fact, since 2018, Yonghui Supermarket has been detected with problematic food several times, and has been notified by the market supervision bureau in Chongqing, Fujian, Beijing, Henan, Tianjin, etc. On March 2, the Beijing Tongzhou District Consumer Association informed that Yonghui Supermarket ranked second in the number of complaints due to the quality of goods, food safety, and prices. on March 3, the Anhui Provincial Market Supervision Bureau informed that the bullfrog sold by Yonghui Supermarket, enrofloxacin did not meet the national food safety standards. On the same day, the Market Supervision Bureau of Henan Province informed that one batch of tiger spots (discounted) from Yonghui Supermarket had a detected value of 5.24μg/kg of furazolidone metabolites, the standard stipulates that it should not be detected.
However, Mr. Li, an informed source, told our reporter that he had worked in the food industry on the mainland, the company owner will pay bribes to food supervision and market supervision-related departments at all levels every year, because this step is not done, it is likely to be retaliated against, the relevant departments will be “public affairs”, “found “you a lot of problems, to be notified of penalties. And if done properly, there will often be officials to inform them, such as there will be a higher level of the department to carry out a major inspection, etc., once the problem also has a workaround to defuse.
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