origin: workers daily
3 month 18, 10, Hebei Zhangjiakou Xihe Ying Town Hongqi primary school Sales Department, children are contending When buying a spicy strip, the date of production on the outer package is blurred, the packaging is rough and poor, and some snacks do not even have any product information.
"spicy strips" are now synonymous with snack foods popular among children in rural areas after school break. With the spicy strip as the representative, the various kinds of puffed food and candy with a single price of 50 Fen to 1 yuan are called "50 Fen snacks" by the media, and the consumers who are fond of spicy strips are called "hot strip". At present, the "50 Fen snacks" are encircling the rural campus and infusing the growing rural children.
there are 140 million rural children in our country. There are 9 million 20 thousand left behind children. A packet of "50 Fen snacks" is popular among them. In addition to exposing the vacuum area of food safety supervision in rural areas, it reflects the common lack of knowledge and awareness in the rural areas.
"50 Fen snacks" surrounding rural children
"full Hakka", "Banquet", "acid Pi"...... The workers' Daily reporter saw at the Hongqi primary school less than 10 square meters of counters on the counter where there were dozens of colorful snacks. Less than 1 minutes have been crowded with children. "Eating lots of spicy bars every day doesn't feel healthy, and when I think of that smell, my mouth is watering." A grade three student told reporters by buying spicy bars.
"the hot strip of this brand sells well, and the children love it very much." According to shopkeepers, a large package of spicy strips priced at 1 yuan is very popular and can sell more than 20 bags a day. But this is the "best selling" food. The date of production on the outer packaging is blurred and unrecognized. Apart from unqualified packaging, some bulk lollipop has no product information.
a reporter visited more than 10 small sales offices in other schools and residential quarters in the town. It was sold as a spicy, dried, bittersweet, candy and puffed food.
a shopkeeper told a reporter that sugar sold within one yuan is the best seller. "Children have no money, and the average allowance they spend at home is one or two yuan per day." "The average level of local wages is around 3000 yuan, and the level of pocket money spent on children is not too high," said Chen, a teacher at Hongqi primary school.
"50 Fen food" has invaded rural areas.
from 2013, the professor Peng Yala team of the Faculty of agriculture and rural development of Renmin University of China has been investigating 12 rural schools in Jiangxi, Henan, Hebei, Sichuan, Shanxi and Beijing and 2 Mobile Children's schools, and found that the problem of eating what is healthier than most urban children On the other hand, rural children in some poverty-stricken areas, especially the left behind children and migrant children, are facing a grim situation.
the investigation team found that many small snacks sold around rural schools, the manufacturer's address, telephone and other information false ratio of 30%. These bad snacks are prevalent among children in rural areas and occupy a large proportion of their food intake. Among the surveyed children, 73% often snack. Some children can eat three or four packets of spicy food a day, and many children take snacks as their meals.