Chapter 1148: Many Secrets

, Gong Bu. Fan Ting also reflected a lot on the Sudan Red incident. ※

As Fan Wubing pointed out, it is the management gap of relevant domestic functional departments that gives Sudan Red a chance to survive.

The management of food additives in China was first handled by the Food Bureau of the former Ministry of Light Industry, and later. The state's food inspection functions have been adjusted and divided: imported and exported food must be inspected by the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau; food produced by enterprises must be inspected by the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau before leaving the factory; and health, agriculture and other departments also pay attention to food safety.

The situation of multiple supervision of food safety leads to repeated testing in some areas and no testing in some areas.

The Sudan Red No. 1 incident also showed the weak safety awareness of the entire food industry. In the first few days after the domestic fatwa was issued on Sudan Red No. 1. The heads of some industry associations and industry experts unanimously concluded that Sudan Red 1 was only detected in a few countries. There are no domestic companies manufacturing Sudan Red 1 pigment, and no food companies add Sudan Red 1 pigment.

When asked why such a conclusion could be made without specific investigation, the answer of the relevant person in charge of the China Condiment Industry Association can be said to be shocking, "Because domestic condiment manufacturers have never been allowed to use Sudan Red No. 1 before." As a food additive.”

In fact, it wasn't until much later. Relevant industry associations will issue emergency notices when going out. Catering establishments in various places are required to immediately stop using food containing Sudan Red No. 1 and strive to limit harmful contamination to a minimum.

In response to this matter, Fan Heng specially invited some senior practitioners in the food industry to consult. They said that Sudan red is not the only one that can dye food red. There are many common methods of making food red in the domestic market: using sulfur to smoke red spicy plates and red hawthorn slices, and using formaldehyde to mix red sausages. Use paint red paste to mix the plug water.

These poisonous red and poisonous colored poisons are added to poisonous food. Although it has been repeatedly detected and severely punished by the industrial, commercial, quality supervision and health departments, and repeatedly exposed or criticized by the media, it is like pressing the gourd and letting the gourd rise. It has been checked before, and it has happened again, and it has been checked here, and it has happened again there. So much so that the relevant departments even put up notices. Let consumers think for themselves.

An unavoidable fact is that not only Sudan Red No. 1 exists in China, but also various Sudan Red No. 1 products such as formaldehyde and carmine.

The emergence of this incident once again shows that it is urgent to establish a new food safety early warning response mechanism in China.

Some experts also pointed out that the current food safety early warning and emergency response mechanism should be strengthened as soon as possible from both hardware and software aspects. In terms of hardware, food safety evaluation standards should be improved. Although the country has introduced many standards, some standards are already too old in view of the current social development. In this regard, the country must consider integrating with developed countries as soon as possible. In addition, food safety inspection technology should be improved,

This technology should at least ensure rapid and accurate inspection of all types of food on the farm.

In terms of software, it means that the quality of the country's overall law enforcement team needs to be improved. The country should strengthen training for law enforcement personnel and improve their ability to inspect and respond to food safety from both technical and experience aspects.

At the same time, the establishment of the country’s food safety and health epidemic prevention early warning mechanism and related emergency response systems should be based on standards acceptable to both the people and the government. Relevant national departments should cultivate the awareness of comprehensive quality control in domestic food companies. They should start quality control on an unreleased product during the market planning period. This control period should last until the product loses its use value in the hands of consumers.

A large-scale siege operation against Sudan Red No. 1 in China has yielded numerous results. Products produced by Heinz, KFC and other companies have been seized in Beijing, Guangdong, Xijiang, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Fujian and other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. A variety of problematic products containing Sudan Red No. 1.

At the same time, the industrial and commercial authorities have also identified the source of Sudan Red No. 1 that provides food raw materials to the above-mentioned companies. One of the companies produced nearly 20,000 kilograms of food raw materials called "Lapiban Hong No. 1" containing Sudan Red No. 1. , has flowed to nine provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hebei, Xijiang, Yunnan and Chongqing.

At present, local industrial and commercial authorities are organizing forces to step up efforts to investigate and deal with these problems.

"Sudan Red No. 1 contains azobenzene. When azobenzene is degraded, it will produce a moderately toxic carcinogen, benzene. Excessive azobenzene is inhaled into the human body, which may cause tissue hypoxia and poor breathing. It can cause damage to the central nervous system and cardiovascular system, and even lead to infertility.” When explaining the dangers of Sudan Red 1 to Fan Heng and other State Council leaders, a medical expert said, “This kind of harm is obviously very harmful. But I believe that there should be other banned additives in some domestically produced foods that are far more harmful than Sudan Red 1.”

A well-known female nutritionist also said. In fact, food standards are not perfect only in China. It is common in countries around the world, especially in the safety management of ready-to-eat food, commonly known as fast food.

She believes that as people's pace of life accelerates, the consumption of ready-to-eat food has swept the world. However, the ingredients contained in seemingly simple ready-to-eat meals are actually very complex and come in many varieties.

Taking the UK as an example, there are more than 50 different ingredients in a piece of meat-filled potato cake sold, including those that enhance the flavor of the food, emulsify, increase the consistency, etc.

In addition, the food production chain of ready-to-eat foods is also quite complex. Foreign experts believe that the complex food safety chain also makes it more difficult to track potentially problematic foods. For example, with fifty ingredients, there are fifty ways to go wrong.

Relevant experts from the British Agricultural and Food Inspection Department believe that no matter how strong the British food testing department is and how perfect the standards for food additives are, they will still have to face thousands of foods containing more than 50 kinds of ingredients, and it will be difficult to ensure that every time The source and safety of food can be 100% verified.

However, the food safety expert also pointed out. If modern human society loses these additives, the taste of some ready-to-eat foods will not be the same as before, and various foods will face many new problems. For example, microbial contamination and bacterial growth, lack of nutrients, etc.

"Specific to the domestic situation, unscrupulous food companies are using all means to reduce costs, but the detection technology of regulatory agencies has not been followed up in time. There is no prevention, only spot checks, no information collection on the processing link, only follow-up and clean-up afterwards, which means food safety The system is actually in a passive and lagging situation," she told everyone. "Therefore, when relevant departments deal with these problems, they need to strengthen food quality control. Of course, building a food storage system should not be just a matter of the government." "Requiring food companies with conscience to improve the process from raw material purchase to table as soon as possible." Food safety system control and guide the new direction of the food industry.”

This incident has also made Chinese people doubt some highly trusted foreign brands. For example, big companies like KFC.

Due to being involved in the Sudan Red incident, KFC has recently had to deal with a steady stream of lawsuits and disputes, and under siege from the media, it also has to ponder whether it will continue to implement the ticketing policy of avoiding it if possible and refusing to refine it in the future. It must handle it well. With these ensuing problems, it is natural to restore one's own brand image and take on one's social responsibilities.

In this incident, KFC first claimed that its products did not contain Sudan red. When the quality inspection department announced that Sudan red was found in its products, it faced embarrassment and shifted the responsibility to the relevant suppliers. They claimed that they had repeatedly asked relevant suppliers to ensure that their products did not contain Sudan Red No. 1, and had obtained written guarantees from the suppliers. However, they did not expect that this time the suppliers illegally imported raw materials containing Sudan Red ingredients.

This statement not only failed to win the sympathy and conviction of the public, but instead caused people to question the quality system that it has always advertised. As a global catering company, it has always promoted the standardization, clarity and digitization of production procedures, and has no control over the products of suppliers. There is no safety mechanism for random inspection and testing again. Is the entire quality and safety system reliable? At the same time, KFC has always been vague on the issue of consumer claims, and the image of a major international company has been tarnished in the minds of Chinese consumers.

In fact, it is defined according to internationally accepted standards. Corporate social responsibility is a company's ethical behavior towards society, that is, while making profits, a company must take the initiative to assume responsibilities to the environment, society and stakeholders.

Enterprises are the cells of society, and society is the support of enterprises. The development of enterprises must require a large amount of social resources and natural resources, and only by allowing society to continue to progress and develop can enterprises have a steady stream of resource support and sufficient room for expansion. At the same time, society is also the source of corporate interests. By assuming social responsibilities and winning reputation and social recognition, companies can better reflect their cultural orientation and values. Create a better social atmosphere for corporate exhibitions, so that enterprises can maintain their vitality and achieve long-term sustainable development.

China is a country with a large population and a large consumption country.

It can be said that no multinational company that wants to seek further development can ignore the existence of a huge market like China.

In the past, due to long-term image promotion and good performance, multinational companies like KFC once won the blind worship of many Chinese consumers. However, as Chinese consumers mature. As well as the improvement of awareness of rights protection, with the Sudan Red incident as a symbol, this blind admiration for foreign countries is changing into a clear and rational mentality.

Under this situation, whether multinational companies take advantage of loopholes in policies and laws or deceive and fool consumers, the company will eventually be indifferent and excluded from the market.

However, the more worrying issue is domestic food safety issues, or more of a lack of social integrity, ranging from spicy sauce, spicy oil, cooked meat, instant noodles, salads and even lecithin. , cosmetics, no one can tell how many types of Sudan red products people still have around them.

This incident actually exposed an industry secret. Some food processing companies took advantage of the loopholes in laws and regulations. Currently, there is a serious lack of food safety laws and regulations in the domestic circulation field. Some food standards have not changed for decades, and the Sudan Red incident is exactly what happened. The fish that slipped through the net due to imperfect food inspection standards.

Through this incident, in addition to Fan Wubing's joke, which made Boss Zhu vent his anger, the government also did some things to make up for the situation, revising outdated food safety regulations and other laws and regulations.

According to the plan, the current national standards and industry standards for processed foods will undergo a thorough clean-up. Some of the standards will be merged and eliminated, and some standards will be included in the new standard system after review.

The cleaned standards will be included in the plan together with the national standards and industry standards for processed foods that need to be developed. A new processed food standard system will be formed.

In fact, this incident feels a bit embarrassing. Although the domestic "Hygienic Standards for the Use of Food Additives" prohibits the use of industrial raw materials as food additives, because Sudan Red is not a food additive, it is not included in the routine testing items. Su Jianhong, when formulating food standards, companies did not take into account the use of industrial raw materials.

Therefore, Sudan red testing has never been carried out in the past few years, and no unit has applied for Sudan red testing. An example similar to Sudan Red is that the fresh cream on the cake can not melt for several days. In fact, excessive additives are used in the cake. However, there are currently no restrictions on the scope and amount of the main ingredient of cake oil in the national standards. .

According to statistics from relevant departments, only 10% of domestic processed food standards adopt the standards of the International Codex Alimentarius Commission, and only 40% adopt the standards of the Food Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization. At the same time, 80% of national standards are non-mandatory recommended standards, and monitoring is not strong.

In response to the current phenomenon of numerous and repetitive standards, the relevant departments stated that they will integrate standards to optimize the standard structure. At the same time, they will be responsible for revising five international standards for canned products such as tomatoes, peaches, mushrooms, corned beef, and luncheon meat, and formulating green tea and brewed soy sauce. and brewing vinegar and other international standards, and study and revise standards for special dietary foods and dairy products, mainly including infant food standards, food standards for the elderly, and general principles for dairy products.

Fan Wubing has a positive attitude towards these measures taken by the government, he told his father Fan Heng. "It is better to have standards to follow. It is better than no standards to follow. Having detailed standards to follow is obviously more effective than having vague standards to follow. In fact, what happened this time also shows that some industries really need to invest heavily. It is like many departments under the original planning system are no longer able to adapt to the needs of the new era. Those that should be merged will be merged, and those that should be added will be added. The transfer of power is inevitable. "

After listening to his son's words, Fan Heng said, "The higher-ups do have this intention, and the major ministries and commissions have a very loud voice. I think it won't be long before you can see changes, and the changes will be relatively big."

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