reporter Zhou Yi
sulfur fumigated cake flower, after a long time ventilation, irritating smell has not been heard of (Zhou Yi, China wide network reporter / photo)
Yanmar Town, Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province, is known as the hometown of Chinese medicinal herbs and also called itself the hometown of chrysanthemum. Because Yanmar produces chrysanthemum, Trichosanthes, Astragalus and other Chinese medicinal materials, the production of chrysanthemum accounts for a large share. Many farmers who have grown, processed and traded are also home to chrysanthemum, but about 200 tons of Chrysanthemum in two thousand tons per year are flooded with sulfur fumigated chrysanthemum, flowing into the market.
in Yanmar Township, Sheyang County, Jiangsu, the reporter saw a farm house placing more than a dozen bags of chrysanthemum flowers in the open space on the roadside door. Local villagers told reporters that this is a sulfur smoked flowers. The reporter sniffed and did not hear the pungent smell of sulphur. The villagers said that chrysanthemums smoked with sulphur would not smell the smell of sulphur if they only put it in a ventilated condition for a month. There are two kinds of [color=#FF0000] chrysanthemum products: one is the bulk of the chrysanthemum in the industry called the green flower; and a kind of cake flower that, as the name implies, looks like a piece of cake, which is smoked with sulphur. The main process of [/color]
chrysanthemum processing is dehydration, which is to remove the moisture from the chrysanthemum. In order to save costs, the traditional chrysanthemum manufacturing process is through sulfur fumigation, destroy the surface wax, and play a drying role. But since 2005, the Chinese Pharmacopoeia has no longer allowed the use of sulfur fumigation. The reason is that the [color=#FF0000] sulfur fumigated chrysanthemum medicine will become acid, resulting in the loss of main components and the effect of clinical efficacy, while remaining sulfur dioxide, causing toxic superimposition of [/color]. The boss of Yanmar Town, a chrysanthemum business, said that the chrysanthemum processing plant in Yanmar town did not use chrysanthemum smoked with sulphur, but farmers are still in widespread use.
processing plant owners: large processing plants no longer used, the people themselves at home. Without processing plants, flowers should be lifted and hit with sulfur.
reporter: why do you make sulphur?
processing factory owner: all factories have processed seven thousand pieces of coal for electric coal processing. As long as a little sulfur is spent with sulphur, there is no other cost. If it is not pleasant to hear, it will cost 4 or 5 thousand tons for the cost of sulphur removal.
a lot of people are doing chrysanthemum business with the town of Yanmar, which is adjacent to the town of Yanmar. The boss of a chrysanthemum processing factory in the town of tijuyong told reporters that the price of the sulphur smoked chrysanthemum is not a bit lower than the normal dehydration, because no one has been tested.
with sulfur fumigated chrysanthemum cake flower (China Guangzhou network reporter Zhou Yi / photo)
boss: this year with sulphur, the flower of our whole chrysanthemum is only 200 tons, and the market is not sold enough.
reporter: but the cost is there.
boss: things are scarce, and things are scarce. Do you know?
reporter: but the quality of the smoked flowers must be a little worse.
boss: This is a good market. This is the price. I think you run, too.
reporter: is sulphur smoked not detecting sulfur?
boss: pharmaceutical companies do not carry sulphur, and sulfur is also used. The owner of
special town said he had about 17 tons of chrysanthemum fumigated in his hand, and the market was tight.
reporter: where is the 170 ton sold?
processing plant owner: sold to Qingping market in Guangdong and Guangzhou.
reporter: is there anyone else who wants sulfur flowers?
processing factory owner: Sulphur smoked now sells (MAD), at Yanmar. I just sent 500 kilograms to Guangzhou a few days ago, 50 yuan, 53 yuan a kilogram, this is the cake that has been beaten with sulfur.
reporter: what do they do after they arrive?
boss of processing plant: make chrysanthemum tea. It is sold to Yunnan and Guizhou.
reporter: isn't it better to kill blue and white flowers?
processing factory owner: people over there adapt and love this kind of flower.
reporter: what is the taste of tea made from sulphur smoked flowers?
processing factory owner: have you not drunk?
reporter: I have drunk chrysanthemum tea, but I can not drink which is smoked with sulfur.
processing plant owner: of course you can't drink it. (laughter)
processing factory owner: I tell you, we do business is 2 or 3 million, I said half a sentence is false.
reporter: where are the main cakes sold like sulphur smoked cakes?
farmers: there are more Zhejiang. And go to Guangzhou.
reporter: how do they use it over there?
farmers: some may go to a pharmaceutical factory. Some are used for bathing.
reporter: can users feel sulfur inside?
farmers: generally no, because at that time (for a long time) evaporated in the air.
reporter: is Sulphur Fumigation low cost?
farmers: one is easy to do, and the other is not easy to fail. There are two advantages.
reporter: is sulphur smoked by farmers themselves?
farmers: own home.
reporter: who does it accept?
farmers: they grow in their own homes and make their own products.
the reporter sent the cake flowers from the hands of the farmers to the China Commercial Federation of agricultural and vice - merchant (production) quality supervision and testing center, the result is 2.3 grams of sulfur dioxide per kilogram. According to the national standard, according to the national standard, the standard content is 0.1 grams per kilogram of sulfur dioxide in accordance with the national standard, according to the national standard, which is equal to 23 times the content of sulfur dioxide.
Quality Inspector: according to the national standard, it is unqualified. The national standard should be 0.1 grams per kilogram. As long as it exceeds this standard, it is not qualified.
however, from the local management department, the regulation of chrysanthemum is a thorny problem.
first, in Sheyang County, Jiangsu, the local Quality Supervision Bureau can only supervise the formal registration of the manufacturers in the industrial and commercial bureau, which is beyond the distance of the scattered and concealed family workshops.
on the other hand, the Sheyang County Quality Supervision Bureau said that the current standard for detecting sulfur content is only for the various enterprises that have been put on record by the Quality Supervision Bureau. And when the reporters further inquire how much the standard is, the staff of the Quality Supervision Bureau are evasive.
all are enterprise standards, and the national standards are not There is a reference value.
reporter: how many milligrams do we set for the enterprises we record here?
staff: not seen, do not need to check, they sent all the enterprises are qualified.
in addition, according to the experts' introduction, sulfur in the process of fumigation will combine with oxygen to produce sulfur dioxide, sulfur dioxide is a harmful substance to the human body. Long-term contact can cause variation in mucous membrane cells, have serious damage to the mucous membrane of the human body and the digestive tract, and direct the function of the liver and kidney. Influence。