, said the thin meat stuffing was added "sunset yellow" and turned into red after making balls. Turn to the new Beijing News. newspaper (reporter Lin Azhen). Mr. Hu, the citizen, bought a box of thin meat stuffing at the Sanlitun store of Hualian boutique supermarket (BHG). When he went home to make a meatball soup, he found that the whole soup and balls were turned red. He suspected that the meat was added with dye to make the raw meat look fresh.
yesterday, the manager of the supermarket admitted that employees had added "sunset yellow" to the thin meat stuffing, initially finding that the "sunset yellow" was taken into the supermarket in October 18th and was added to fresh meat on the 19 day. Sunset yellow is a food additive approved by China. It is a coloring agent but is not allowed to add to fresh meat.
[b] meatballs made soup into a pot of red soup [/b]
Mr. Hu said Mr. Hu, at 4 p.m. the day before, he bought a thin meat stuffing with a price of 39.8 yuan / kg at the Sanlitun boutique (BHG) store. The price of the box is about 10 yuan, and the thin red meat looks very fresh.
Mr. Hu went home and made a meatball tofu soup with thin meat. "The good soup turned into a pot of red soup." Mr. Hu said at first he thought soy sauce was too much, but after eating a few mouthfuls, he found that even the balls became red, and even the tofu in the pot was dyed red. "Something must be added." Mr. Hu then packaged some meatballs soup and asked them to the supermarket.
[b] customer refuses "fake ten penalty" compensation [/b]
"the supermarket manager admitted that the meat was additive." Mr. Hu said he asked the supermarket manager to produce a bottle of orange red powder, which was added to the meat. The manager offered to compensate Mr. Hu with "one penalty ten", and Mr. Hu refused to accept it. "The key is to figure out what is added to it, whether it is harmful to the human body and how much quantity it has added."
the night before, Mr. Hu bought a thin meat stuffing at the supermarket, "it looks red," and Mr. Hu left the lean meat filling in the refrigerator for evidence.
at the same time, he kept some balls soup as evidence and kept it in the fridge. Yesterday, Mr. Hu retained the ball soup, the ball has become a small round ball, tofu is also partly dyed red.
[b] supermarket called "knife hand" adding dyeing agent [/b]
yesterday, the Sanlitun boutique supermarket (BHG) pork stall, Mr. Hu's fresh pork stuffing is no longer seen, the pig meat is being sold, and the color is much lighter than Mr. Hu's purchase.
the manager of the supermarket and the white manager of the food department confirmed the addition of an additive called "sunset yellow" to Mr. Hu's lean meat stuffing and said "sunset yellow" was joined by employees in the supermarket. "It's our supermarket's violation. It's not allowed." Manager Zhu said.
preliminary survey, "sunset yellow" was brought to the supermarket by employees in October 18th, and was added to lean meat stuffing in October 19th. "It's (pork stall) knife," the employee worked in the shop for several months. White manager said he did not do well in management and staff training as food manager.
as for whether the supermarket has added "sunset yellow" in fresh meat before, two managers have said "no, otherwise consumers would have discovered it".
but Mr. Hu did not believe this. He thought the employee who added "sunset yellow" might be a novice.
[b], experts claim that [/b]
[b] fresh meat added to "sunset yellow" is a violation of [/b]
China's "Hygienic standard for the use of food additives". The scope of "sunset yellow" is limited to modulating milk, modulated condensed milk, frozen drinks, canned watermelon sauce, cocoa and acrylic products, confectionery and batter. Shrimp, paste, cereals and starch desserts, pastries, fruit flavoring syrup, beverage, wine, jelly, puffed food and so on, and have the corresponding maximum use. For example, the maximum usage of sunset yellow is 0.05 grams per kilogram of milk. In this regulation, the range of "sunset yellow" is not included in raw meat, fresh meat and cooked meat products.
Fan Zhihong, an associate professor of nutrition and food safety at the China Agricultural University's [url=http://weibo.com/cau1905? Zw=finance:29xqxxra][color=#000099] (micro-blog) [/color][/url:29xqxxra] Food Institute, and PhD in food science, said that, outside the use of additives, they are illegal use of additives.