source: Ji'nan times
market puffer reporter Wang Zheng taken
5 days, National Department of agriculture, national food The drug administration and so on jointly issued the notice on conditional release of cultured red fin fins and cultured dark fugu. This means that the "fasting order", which has been controversial since 1990, can be conditionally legalized. In this regard, the city food and Drug Administration said, has not yet received notification, will strictly prohibit catering units running fugu. Reporters interviewed found that although there is no puffer breeding base in Ji'nan, there are many catering units engaged in the processing and selling of river flock.
[about aquaculture] the source of Ji'nan's Fugu puffer breeding base in Jiangsu
14 days, the reporter came to a river puffer store in the seafood market. There were more than 20 glass fish tanks on both sides of the store, one of which had seven or eight river puffer. "These are dark brown puffer fish, which are not poisonous. Most restaurants like this." A salesperson with a southern accent said that besides the black finless flock, there was also a red fin fish that was poisonous. After a while, it was not sold.
the salesman said the puffer was 38 yuan per Jin, their river puffer 4 two, one Jin and two or three other red finfish prices a little more expensive, one Jin and 70 dollars, and now the price of the puffer is on the rise. "The first few days the puffer also sold 30 yuan a Jin, sometimes 3 days to sell three thousand or four thousand." Jin River puffer. "
"the puffer fish here are all over Jiangsu. There is no breeding base in Ji'nan, and some other places in Shandong are also from Jiangsu." Sales staff said, the puffer buy back to buy their own, control the water temperature and then add salt, generally can live for seven or eight days, even if the puffer died in the ice can be kept in the ice for a week or so.
[publicly sold] the river puffer dishes on the hundred dollars and down the store said the qualified
the reporter had 11 retrieval results after a group purchase of the puffer on the Internet. 3 hotels were randomly asked to provide food for live fugu.
puffer dishes at a restaurant in Shun Gang Road are "turnip fillet boiled Fugu". "The chef has the proof, rest assured to eat no problem." A male staff member said. A restaurant in Quancheng road has a price tag of 98 yuan for "white fish puffer fish". Staff members say that hotels and cooks have relevant certificates. County West Lane a restaurant "best quality puffer fish soup" 88 yuan two, many diners say this is every time the dishes must be ordered. "We have heard that there are documents that do not allow the sale of the puffer, and these dishes will not remain toxins," said the reporter, 3 hotel staff members said there would be no problem.
according to netizens, there are many high-end hotels in Ji'nan selling fugu. In January 2013, a restaurant in the Olympic Sports Center was exposed to selling puffer dishes. On the 23 day, the reporter contacted the hotel and learned that the river puffer had been stopped for sale. Subsequently, the reporter also consulted a new hotel in sunshine new road. According to the staff, the hotel started making puffer since April, and has sold more than 2000. "Puffing fish can be done with milk soup and braised in soy sauce, 168 yuan each, processing time more than 40 minutes, do not worry about the safety of food."
Department statement has not yet received the relevant notice to still enforce the ban on the sale of river puffer
"we have not yet received the relevant notifications, Ji'nan will still strictly prohibit the catering units to operate the puffer." A staff member of the Municipal Food and Drug Administration said that the toxins contained in the puffer are cooked by 100 and 8 hours, and the salt and sun can not be destroyed, and the toxicity is equivalent to 1250 times the sodium cyanide of the highly toxic drugs.
the responsible person in charge of the Fisheries Management Office of the Ji'nan Agricultural Bureau said that at present, the Ji'nan area does not breed the puffer, and the puffer fish culture is mostly in the south. "If the puffer fish is raised in the south, we are mainly the supervision of the prohibition of drugs. First of all, we must check the quality of the products to ensure the quality of the products."