Shenhao UP Lord

Chapter 300

Bee said helplessly: "It's not just small workshops that have problems. Sometimes large manufacturers will take risks and operate in violation of regulations in order to gain a foothold in the market. When we encounter such large manufacturers, we will also have a headache because we really can't fight them." them."

"Sulfur dioxide is added to many foods, and we have encountered it. Once, a brother of our bee team bought goji berries from a flagship store of a big brand, and felt flustered after eating. He went to test the sulfur dioxide content."

Ding Xu was surprised, good guy, sulfur dioxide, commonly known as sulfur, can easily cause damage to the liver, kidney, esophagus, and respiratory tract, increase the risk of cancer, and easily cause fetal deformities.The dosage allowed by the country is 100 mg/kg, and he detected up to 400 mg/kg at that time.

Because when we bought wolfberry, we gave a pack of rose tea as a gift. We tested the rose tea by the way, only to find that the sulfur dioxide content of scented tea is higher than that of wolfberry.In addition to wolfberry and scented tea, Chinese herbal medicines may also be smoked with sulfur dioxide.

What is the purpose of smoking?

The first is for appearance.Picked and dried roses will wither naturally, and fumigated sulfur dioxide can preserve its bright color.In addition, it can also prevent corrosion and insects.

When many manufacturers go to buy flowers, they only look at the quality of the flowers.If the color of your home looks good, it can be purchased as a first-class product; if you don’t fumigate sulfur dioxide, your flowers are dry and colorless, and may be purchased as a second-class product.

Two flower farmers, one selling first-class products and the other selling second-class products, can have a difference in income of tens of thousands of dollars a year, which is very important for flower farmers.

So a custom has been formed, you smoke for one hour, I smoke for two hours; you smoke for two hours, I smoke for one night.

Even if some manufacturers know that flower growers can smoke, they will turn a blind eye.Big manufacturers do have arrogant capital.After testing wolfberries, we immediately sued that brand.

Their team of lawyers is very powerful, and they will keep chasing and cracking even the slightest loophole. We call them rogue lawyers, and the courts are afraid of them. The lawyers of the Bee team really cannot fight.

In the end, wolfberry and flower tea were not removed from the shelves successfully, but we have been following up and buying a few packs again every once in a while to see if there is still sulfur dioxide.

I suggest that you also buy some sulfur dioxide detection reagents from the Internet, and the detection can be completed at home in as little as 20 minutes.If it does contain sulfur dioxide, return the product or report it to the Market Supervision Administration.

In addition to adding food additives in violation of regulations, there are also more daring businesses who dare to directly add completely inedible industrial substances.This is really something that only ruthless people can do.We encountered such a major vicious addition event last year.

At that time, my apprentice’s grandfather celebrated his birthday and he wanted to treat the whole village to eat longevity noodles.At that time, I bought a category of alkaline water noodles, bamboo noodles.Alkaline noodles are a kind of noodles commonly eaten in Fujian and Guangdong.

After they ate it, they vomited and had diarrhea, so they came to ask me.I saw that the shelf life was written as 90 days, which is very strange, because even under frozen conditions, it is impossible for noodles to stick together for 90 days, so it must add some kind of substance.

A long time ago, my instructor said that there was a case of adding sodium silicate to noodles in order to extend the shelf life and increase the toughness of noodles.

Sodium silicate is an industrial substance, and it is usually added to cement and reinforced concrete. It is not edible at all.If you eat too much, it will damage the liver and kidneys and have an irreversible effect on the development of the child.

My apprentice and I detected those noodles, and sure enough, every packet contained sodium silicate.We bought alkaline water noodles from different merchants, and found that all but a few of them contained sodium silicate. This may have become the industry's default practice.

We prosecuted immediately.But this time, we didn't know the bottom line.Because sodium silicate has not been included in the national food safety standards.

National food safety standards are a set of standards that must be enforced throughout the country.It clearly lists what things can be added to food, and how these things should be tested.

For substances that are not listed, such as sodium silicate, its official detection method is blank.This means that our own method of detecting sodium silicate does not count.Even if it is found that there is sodium silicate in the noodles in black and white, the court cannot judge that the merchant violated the regulations.

This case is not an isolated case. There are a large number of undetectable substances outside the list of national food safety standards. They are difficult to be supervised and can only wait for major incidents to be exposed.

To give an example that everyone knows, Sanlu milk powder had problems in the process of purchasing milk. In order to increase the viscosity of milk, dairy farmers added industrial raw material melamine to the milk, which caused many babies who drank Sanlu milk powder to suffer from kidney stones. .

Melamine, like sodium silicate, had no official testing method at the time.But fortunately, due to the heavy exposure of the media, the state temporarily introduced a laboratory testing method to make up for this link legally and complete the accountability of Sanlu.

But now the excessive amount of sodium silicate in alkaline water is three times that of melamine back then!
To bring down the other side in court, our team carefully designed detection methods.Since there is no way to directly detect sodium silicate, let’s take a detour, first detect the silicon element with the national standard detection method, and then use various chemical formulas to deduce that the noodles contain sodium silicate.We took this rigorous proof to court.

In court, we carefully explained the detection method, including how the chemical formula was derived, and gave the example of melamine, only to find that the judge and the clerk were staring at each other.

Let me ask you all to understand, right?
The judge said that what you said was too complicated, and we really couldn't understand it.You should go straight to forensic examination.

Then the court issued an announcement to start recruiting a testing company at a cost of more than 5000 yuan.This is a lot of money, but no testing company came to pick it up.Because they all understand that without testing national standards, laboratory methods have no basis.

No way, this case is deadlocked here.

What is the situation now?

Merchants generally add sodium silicate at a ratio of 10:1, that is, add 10 kg of sodium silicate to [-] catties of noodles, which is already a very high ratio.

But even if he increases the ratio to 1 : 1, that is, this half surface, half sodium silicate, you can see blue things with the naked eye, because sodium silicate is blue; he said that what he made is blue There is nothing you can do about it, because the court only verifies the evidence.

Our last way is to find experts in the food field to cross-examine.I went to my tutor first, but he was unwilling, and I stopped interacting with him very much afterwards; I contacted several university professors, but their asking price was too high.

A professor even told me what if you prove it?You still can't change the industry.

But I insisted on it. The purpose of our team is very simple. If you lose the lawsuit, you lose. But it must be exposed, let more people know, and let everyone be more vigilant.

Crisis is everywhere!

(End of this chapter)