Pickled products additives "secret recipe" exposure Nanning annual sales of millions of processing plants checked
Xinhua Nanning reporter Wu Xiaokang
to increase the taste of pickled products, a processing factory in Nanning is not willing to take the risk of desperation, illegal make Alum and other additives were used to detect aluminum residues in products seriously exceeding the standard. Recently, two main suspects were arrested by the procuratorial organ.
reporter learned from the Xingning District Procuratorate in Nanning, Liang, Yang, a couple and other partners, in the Nanning district management of a small processing plant, the main production and processing of pickled pepper, acid bamboo shoots, pickles, sour buckwheat head and so on. Yang is responsible for pickling, Liang Mou opened a shop in the wholesale market, specializing in the wholesale and retail products.
Liang explained that the secret recipe for illegal use of additives was learned elsewhere, which can increase the taste and appearance of food and help to increase sales. After the raw material is washed with tap water, the raw material is put into the cement tank of the factory, and then the raw material is put into the water for one month to half a year. When the product is sold, the product is washed with tap water and then added with a small amount of salt, vinegar, sodium cyclamate and saccharin. After that, the salted products are sold wholesale. Alum and sodium pyrosulfite are added to the material water. Alum is guaranteed to be crisp and preserve quality. Sodium pyrosulfite is antiseptic. Lemon yellow is added to it.
after receiving reports from the masses, the relevant departments investigated and dealt with the processing plant. According to Liang's account, the raw material used by the processing plant reaches 300 thousand kilograms a year, with annual sales volume of about 1000000 yuan.
the Xingning District procuratorate has found that the husband and wife of Liang and other husband and wife are using food additives in order to gain profits and illegal use of food additives, and their illegal production and sale of pickled food are certified by the qualified institutions at the provincial level and above, and the food contains heavy metal aluminum which is seriously beyond the standard limit and endangering human health, which is enough to cause serious food poisoning accidents or Other serious foodborne diseases. Recently, the procuratorate of Xingning district has arrested Liang, Yang and others on suspicion of producing and selling fake and inferior products.