the price of prickly ash in the market of
Gao Ge, reporter Chen Yanjie
recently, Mr. Qi of the public sent a call This reporter, he said his family bought 30 yuan a pound of pepper, there are many sundry, Chinese herbal medicine "wood", as well as the green water pepper. In the investigation, the reporter found that the adulteration in the eight Li bridge and the seven Li Fort wholesale market is common, and the price difference is more than double, the cheap 25 yuan a Jin, and the expensive 60 yuan a Jin.
[public report] 30 yuan a jin of pepper, sundries account for nearly half of the
"my family bought the adulterated pepper in the farmer's market near Kuang Shan District, which has been used with salt water, and it is also adulterated with 'wood'. Recently, Mr. Qi telephoned a reporter, saying that his son bought 30 yuan a pound of pepper in the nearby farmers' market.
after the reporter got Mr. Yu's adulterated prickly ash, he tasted a blackened pepper and found it was very salty. Mr. Qi introduced, some people to let the pepper sell more money, generally unequal pepper long ripe plucked, and then soak the pepper in brine, soak for about a month and then take out to dry, so the seeds inside the pepper will not fall out, a scale. "The salt we use is not the salt that we normally eat, but the cheaper industrial salt." Mr. Qi said.
it is known that industrial salt is also known as sodium nitrite. It is used for construction, dyestuffs and antirust agents. It is widely used in printing and dyeing, bleaching and so on. Once eaten, it will cause great harm to health. Long term edible industrial salt can appear dizziness, distention, tinnitus and so on. Severe convulsions and coma occur in serious time. It even causes death.
the reporter is free to catch some of the prickly ash from Mr. Qi. There are seventy or eighty pieces of pepper from which more than 20 "wood" are picked out, and there are nearly 20 brine prickly prickly prickly prickly prickly prickly prickly prickly prickly, and the proportion of the sundries is nearly half.
[reporter] [reporter survey] the price of pepper in the market is from 25 yuan to 60 yuan,
recently, the reporter found that the price of the pepper sold by the merchants was different after the eight Li bridge wholesale market. Reporters observed 45 yuan a pound of pepper, found that Mr. Qi said the debris, and the color of pepper is not the same.
in the Eight Mile Bridge market, the price of pepper is 45 yuan to 50 yuan. Reporters found that 50 yuan a pound of pepper, there are also debris, but less expensive than other prices.
reporters asked nearly 20 merchants in the seven Libao market, and found that the price difference of prickly ash is relatively large, 60 yuan a kilogram, and 25 yuan a kilogram cheaper.
before a booth, which claimed to be pure pepper, the reporter bought one or two peppers from a merchant, asking why the price of pepper in the market is so different. In the conversation, the merchants revealed that many prickly prickly pepper in the market were adulterated, only from the price distinction can know that the Zanthoxylum is not adulterated, the same pepper can not sell 60 yuan, and some 25 yuan.
reporter bought three samples, found that 60 yuan a pound of pepper are open, no sundries, and the taste is relatively pure. 50 yuan a pound of pepper, there are impurities, but the proportion is not very large. 25 yuan a pound of pepper, the proportion of impurities is relatively large, accounting for about half, and the color of pepper is not the same.
[industry explosion] the adulteration of Zanthoxylum into the industry "latent rule"
a long-term sale of pepper industry personage revealed that the adulteration of pepper in the industry is not news, many people do it. Tengzhou, Zaozhuang has the largest wholesale market of dry goods in the country. Many of the adulterated pepper is shipped from Shaanxi. Most of Shaanxi's pepper smickers are mostly smashed pepper rod and pepper leaf and mixed in pepper. The local farmers will store pepper rod and pepper when they harvest the pepper, which seems to be worthless, a jin of pepper. It can also sell for about 1 yuan, and its only use is weighing.
there are several methods for the adulteration of pepper in the market? Mr. Qi, who had planted pepper in old home in Laiwu, said the Tao of it, he said some pepper dealers spent very little money from some Chinese medicinal plants, sold the "wood" in the factory and sold them in the pepper. There is another kind of pine nut shell (commonly known as bottom material) after smashing, which is more troublesome. The pepper smugglers usually break the pine nut shell, the size and the pepper, and then stick a kind of thing outside, then dye it into the color of the pepper like, and sell it with the real pepper.