Recently, the media during its secret visit found that Laixi rotten apple was sent to Haisheng Fruit Company to process fruit juice. When inspected by relevant departments, a large number of rotten apples were found through the picking line. According to the standards posted by the company, almost all of these apples are not up to standard. Fruit juice is mainly used for export, the company said.
A catty of rotten apples of 0.2 Yuan were processed to juice for exports. Seeing this news, many netizens actually shouted "conscience enterprises", juice is not the kind of blending products on the market, but the solid apples squeezed out. Without harming domestic people, they also provided a way to increase income for fruit farmers.
But if domestic consumers don't think the rotten apples are in their mouths, they overestimate enterprises’ conscience. Initially interviewed, the head of Haisheng Fruit Company made it clear that 95% was used for exports, that is to say, the remaining 5% was domestic.
When the Food and Drug Inspectors took a spot check, the "honest" chief suddenly changed his tune and said that all the apples were exported; and for those rotten and blackened apples, he even flickered and said, "I feel these apples are picked." However, ironically, the words after the chief changing, believe it or not, the local Food and Drug Supervision Department anyway believe it, so the media can not help but say that they can not control.
Indeed, the export of food is regulated by local inspection and quarantine authorities. However, even the specific direction of the products has not been investigated clearly, on the grounds of not being able to control exports, let this important clue go, there is a suspicion of shirking responsibility.
Furthermore, Chapter 6 of the Food Safety Law requires that food producers should ensure that their food for exports meet the standards or contract requirements of the importing country (region). Which country's food safety standards will allow rotten apples for making juice?
In the meantime, even if there is no standard in the place where the juice is imported, the Measures for the Administration of Import and Export Food Safety also mention that if the importing country (region) has no relevant standard and the contract has no requirement, the export food should be guaranteed to meet the national food safety standards of China. Specifically to the production of concentrated juice, China's national standard is that apples should be ripe, clean, landless fruit, rotten rate is less than 5%.
Few apples meet this standard, according to the survey video, but they all pass through the sorting line of the enterprise smoothly, enter the juicing process, and use the juice residue as feed.
Enterprises are buying rotten apples in full swing. The Department of Food and Drug Administration can not control them. This is how a "conscientious enterprise" made by real materials and specialized in harming foreign friends.
It is worth mentioning that, according to public reports, Haisheng Fruit Company, headquartered in Shanxi Province, has an annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of juice, which the local media once nicknamed "a legend of Chinese fruit industry". The exposure of Qingdao Haisheng Fruit is a branch, if using rotten apple to make juice can also achieve "legend", it is undoubtedly a satirical spectacle.
In the sense of responsible for the image of China's food safety and responsible for Chinese consumers, we must thoroughly investigate the flow of products. In addition, whether this astonishing juice production model is just the tip of the iceberg has to be clearly stated.
