Chapter 636 Gutter Oil and Melamine

Several overseas media outlets gathered in China. There are people who are afraid that the world will not be in chaos. People who want to cover the covers in China are unable to guard against it. Therefore, various domestic food scandals have been continuously revealed, such as toxic cowpeas sprayed with pesticides, rice contaminated with aflatoxin and mineral oil, pork containing clenbuterol, eels that use hormones, pig blood and aquatic products treated with formaldehyde (formalin), hot pot ingredients based on industrial paraffin, ham treated with DDT, etc., which made consumers feel scared when they heard about it. They simply didn’t know what else to put on the table!

Under the persistent excavation of the reporters and the deliberate guidance of those who are interested, the two large bombs that the people cannot tolerate the most were finally detonated. These two things were first exposed by CCTV. They are authoritative, sensitive to the objects of harm, and involve the personal feelings of thousands of households. Therefore, as soon as they were exposed, they immediately aroused public outrage.

As overseas and Hong Kong and Taiwan media continue to expose domestic food safety issues overseas, the response was half a beat slow. CCTV, as the national mouthpiece, could no longer sit still and asked the superiors to follow up and clarify. Originally, the superior propaganda department also wanted to make big things smaller, and gradually made people forget about this matter. But now the public opinion is surging, and it is not simply solved by suppressing domestic media.

After a game, I felt that taking this opportunity to completely uncover the old customs and habits of the entire food industry, letting the people's opinions on eating safe food have the upper hand. Therefore, CCTV sent elite soldiers and strong generals to take action. The national team that fought at home should not be underestimated. As soon as it took action, it caused two major cases in Yang Xing's previous life to be sensationalized in advance.

The first major case was the "gutter oil" incident that was well-known at that time. After receiving a report from "someone", CCTV sent several teams to disguise themselves and sneak into various places for investigation. The result was almost shocked. It turned out that among hundreds of cities in China, there were professional gutter oil recycling companies in places with small restaurants. These gutter oils were slightly processed by many underground black dens and sent to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. After deep processing by underground "oil plants", they were sold as raw materials to oil and fat companies in many places across the country, as well as chemical factories for the production of soap and detergents.

Research shows that long-term intake of gutter oil can cause obvious harm to the human body, such as developmental disorders, prone to enteritis, and lesions such as liver, heart and kidneys, and fatty liver. CCTV concluded based on the news feedback from various places that Chinese people eat two to three million tons of gutter oil every year, and CCTV even titled a sensational title for this episode - "You must have eaten gutter oil!"

The program was broadcasting and public opinion was a big boom. The essence of Chinese cuisine is frying, stir-frying, but the focus of these methods is inseparable from the use of cooking oil. Ordinary families eat oil almost three meals a day. Now they eat gutter oil, and they use gutter oil to wash their hands and dishes, so the cancer-causing rate does not rise! For a while, the prices of refined oil in supermarkets plummeted. Many people would rather buy fresh pickled rape oil at high prices, or simply add less oil and eat water to boil cabbage. It is better to have cancer.

International restaurant chains such as McDonald's and KFC, which like to provide fried foods, were unfortunately shot while lying down. They were suspected of using gutter oil or trans fatty acid oil fried foods. Their business plummeted and they had to urgently come out to defuse the rumors. In addition, the sales of many famous brands of toiletries at home and abroad have also dropped sharply, and even Xingmei Fashion has suffered.

The second major case made the Chinese people feel indignant, because this incident seriously hurts the buds of the motherland and the next generation of human beings. What will go wrong is the milk powder and milk necessary for many infants and young children. This incident was caused by the products of Xiyangyang Group. Since Xiyang's food report revealed the hornet's nest in the food industry, after apology and compensation, as a crisis public relations, Xiyangyang Group actively cooperated with various departments to continue to conduct in-depth investigations on its own products.

However, as domestic food problems emerge one after another, everyone found that Xiyangyang's products are relatively safe. The test results of Xiyangyang's own laboratory are basically close to the conclusions obtained by international ** institutions. In other words, there is no major problem with the processing process of Xiyangyang's products. After strengthening the testing of raw materials, Xiyangyang's food quality is still far ahead of domestic brands, and it is not inferior to foreign companies.

To this end, Xiyangyang also launched a transparent visual operation project, inviting consumers to observe the operation process in the operation rooms of restaurants and restaurants and food company workshops on the spot, and intends to create a special tourist tourism project. At the same time, it also offers high rewards for food quality, and it will never be ruthless to deal with it together.

After such a crisis public relations, Xiyangyang Group has left many consumers with the impression of honesty, trustworthiness, modesty and prudence. Xiyangyang Food's impression of being a safe brand at least in China has been deeply rooted in the hearts of consumers. After a short decline in operating performance, its performance miraculously resumed growth before the end of the year, and the growth rate is not lower than before the outbreak of the crisis!

During Xiyangyang's continuous self-inspection, it was found that a local milk company under the Shanghai Guangming Dairy Group acquired not long ago was a big deal in recycling expired milk, reprocessing the expired milk that should have been destroyed by the factory and then putting it on the market. Because the milk expired, there is a great risk of spoilage and environmental pollution. Although the domestic regulations on returning the expired milk to the factory and reprocessing, this is a explicit prohibition abroad. As soon as the incident was discovered, Xiyangyang Group did not conceal the pretense, and immediately announced the closure of the factory and took the initiative to recall all dairy products produced by the factory.

However, CCTV reporters who have always wanted to dig out the inside story are still unsatisfied, because during the interview, they found that many industry insiders disagree with this behavior and believed that it was a recognized secret in the industry. Xi Yangyang was so firm in drawing a clear line on it. This is not breaking the rules. Who would dare to do this in the future? Out of professional sensitivity, CCTV reporters felt that there must be a bigger dark story in the dairy industry. The practice of recycling milk is actually an unspoken rule in the industry. Doesn’t that mean that there are bigger problems that have not been discovered?

After an open and secret investigation by CCTV reporters, new discoveries have indeed been made. Anhui is a major export province for migrant workers in China. Not long ago, it was reported that aged rice contaminated by aflatoxin and mineral oil was mainly sold to the place. The "migrant workers' rice" incident broke out, which caused chaos. However, many migrant workers' families reported that after eating certain milk powder brands, their children had big heads, small bodies, weak bodies, slow reactions, and were accompanied by large-scale skin ulcers and enlarged internal organs. More than a dozen children even died due to this.

After the reform, most Chinese families abide by the national one-child system. Now two families have one child, and the importance of infants and young children has reached an extreme point. The treatment of the "little emperor" is not only verbal, but many people would rather suffer themselves than be wronged. All families are very concerned about the nutrition and health of their children and cannot tolerate any danger. After the news of Guangming's milk recycling came out, many parents turned their attention to the milk powder they were using. Many migrant workers collectively petitioned and asked the government to give an explanation, pointing to infant milk powder.

Zhengfu, who dared not neglect this, immediately launched an investigation and found that these milk powders were all counterfeit and shoddy products. The protein content in inferior infant milk powder was less than 2, which was far lower than the requirements of the national regulations of 12, which caused such serious consequences. The news came out, which was like a heavy blow to the newly emerging domestic milk powder industry, but no one expected that the greater bad news would be behind.

CCTV reporters collected the brand milk powder on the market and handed it over to several major domestic food laboratories for comprehensive testing. Everyone was stunned when the announcement was issued. The report found that several major foreign brand milk powders had both iodine exceeding the standard, affecting thyroid function, and metal particles, which could easily lead to serious damage to the respiratory system and throat of the baby. But these are not as fatal as melamine, a ingredient that is detected from many domestic brands of milk powders!

Melamine, commonly known as protein essence, was originally a common chemical raw material in the coatings and plastics industries. One of the international standards for detecting the quality of a certain food or feed is to judge its protein content. People often use the "nitrogen content to infer protein content". If melamine is added to it, it can increase the nitrogen content of the product, making people misjudged that the protein content of milk and feed are rich, so that black-hearted merchants can improve the competitiveness of the product.

Earlier, the United States discovered many cases of imported Chinese cat and dog feed containing melamine, causing cat and dog death, which caused a lawsuit between China and the United States. Now it seems that the black-hearted businessman has extended his claws to humans. Because melamine can damage the baby's kidneys, long-term consumption will produce urinary stones, resulting in death. According to the test results, almost all domestic milk powder brands contain melamine, which can make parents across the country angry!

In this situation, the Chinese dairy industry, which was originally concealed, could no longer justify itself, and initially wanted to put the blame on dairy farmers. However, under the huge social opinion, the geological supervision bureaus began to take action to comprehensively investigate the domestic milk powder brands on the market. Among them, Sanlu Factory, which claims to be the largest domestic milk powder production in Gubei Province, has undoubtedly become a severely affected area. After the incident in Guangming Milk not long ago, the company proudly declared, "We can say with certainty that all our products are fine!"

Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Health quickly announced that the factory produced the highest content of melamine, with the widest sales area and quantity. Not only did it slap them, it also panicked the countries that imported Chinese milk powder from all over the world. In the immediate industry storm, the public had to accept this reality. The melamine quality problems are generally common in the entire industry, large enterprises, and well-known brands, and China's dairy industry has suffered an unprecedented industry crisis.

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