Harbin: beef water injection is beyond defense

Introduction: on November 20, Harbin, xinhuanet.com (reporter Cao Jiyang), one catty of beef can buy back three or two water If the designated slaughterhouse refuses to inject water, there will be no cattle to kill Recently, there are more and more water injected beef in Harbin market In order to make a profit, the black hearted industry has injected glue and architectural coating into the beef, which greatly endangers the health of consumers Experts pointed out that this is the safety alarm of meat products market again after the problems of water injection pork, water injection chicken and water injection duck were exposed Waterflood beef: the market is always on the defensive Recently, the industrial and Commercial Office of animal slaughtering and trading of Harbin Municipal Bureau of industry and Commerce received a report that some people brought waterflood beef from Shuangcheng City At about 4 a.m., the reporter rushed to the scene with the law enforcement officers of industry and Commerce and public security, and intercepted the black a03324 agricultural vehicle The reporter saw that the UN quarantined water injected beef was piled up in the back compartment of the car, which was gray and disgusting When you press it with your hand, water will seep out Soon, it will be all wet According to Yu Hongbo, the owner, he slaughtered four or five cattle every day since the Spring Festival this year, and sold them to Harbin after water injection The beef is either processed into a meat filling product or rolled into a meat roll to enter the market The industrial and commercial personnel asked Yu Hongbo to show the quarantine bill, and Yu's answer was surprising: "when slaughtering, the quarantine officer didn't arrive at the scene at all, and my bill was bought at the price of 13 yuan per piece." It is understood that due to the limitation of human resources, the water injected beef that can be cut off is only a small part of it, and the rest has entered the market through various channels LAN Dongbin, director of Harbin livestock and poultry slaughtering and trading Institute, said that at present, the problem of beef water injection in Harbin market is very prominent Illegal operators usually use small pumps or syringes to inject water into beef Due to the rich fiber structure of beef, it is better to "eat" water About 150 kg of beef can be watered with 25-50 kg water According to the current market price estimate, each cow can make an illegal profit of 200-500 yuan What's worse, law enforcement officers have found in past inspections that some illegal operators are reluctant to use clear water and pour rainwater, dirty water and livestock drinking water into beef Others found that water was easy to seep out, and even gelatin and cellulose (a building coating that can produce stickiness when mixed with water) were injected into beef It is said that this kind of beef looks fresh and tender, but it is easier for customers to mistake it as good beef According to Lujiang, a staff member of Heilongjiang Provincial Health Supervision Institute, this behavior seriously violates the food hygiene law If the sewage is injected, people are more likely to be infected with bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc., causing intestinal diseases Sewage often contains a large number of heavy metals, aromatic tinctures and hydroxyl compounds, which have chronic carcinogenic effects, while chemical coatings will cause damage to human brain tissue Designated slaughtering enterprises: if you refuse to inject water, you have to close down The reporter learned from the Harbin Municipal Commission of commerce that in order to ensure that the citizens can eat beef at ease, the Harbin municipal government and enterprises raised more than 2 million yuan By the end of last year, the only halbin cattle and sheep meat processing factory in the city was built At that time, the design capacity was 500 heads per day At the beginning, the enterprise also ambitious to win with high-quality service and production of reassuring beef, but the requirement of the cattle dealer is that the more water is injected into the beef, the better The manufacturer turned down the unreasonable request after thinking Because without water injection, the quantity of slaughtered beef will not go up, and the sale of meat will not make a lot of money As a result, the cattle sellers are not willing to slaughter cattle here, and the factory will be shut down in less than half a year Now, more than 500 square meters of factory buildings are cold and clean, and modern slaughtering equipment is all idle Zhang Wenxue, deputy manager of the factory, said that at the beginning of the factory's opening, it also set up three chain stores of reassuring meat to play a quality reputation card But without water, the price will be high The common people don't understand the reason They don't want to buy it because of saving money on the surface of the picture At last, these shops have to be changed into cold drink shops He also said with a heavy heart, "as an experienced professional, when you see some citizens who have been in the dark buying water beef and are happy, you don't feel very sad Sometimes I even think, if it's tap water, but once it's dirty water, smelly water, or paint, how harmful it will be to people's health! " Another member of the slaughterhouse's staff was even more indignant: "a conscientious enterprise can't compete with a unscrupulous entrepreneur, why?" Wang Jiqun, director of the non food department of the Harbin Municipal Commission of Commerce, said that the phenomenon of beef water injection is quite common in Harbin, because the illegal operators are driven by interests By water injection, they can achieve the purpose of short weight, small weight and huge profits Now, there is a saying among the illegal operators: more water injection, more money, less water injection, less money, no water injection, no money The fresh and tender color of the beef injected with water or glue is good, which is easier for consumers to be cheated Relevant people further pointed out that the deep reason lies in the lack of laws and regulations Harbin has issued regulations requiring live pigs to be slaughtered at designated points in the city, but there are no similar rigid regulations for beef, mutton, etc As a result, some businesses took a cart of cattle or sheep to the morning market to slaughter and sell them The masses were still fresh, but they did not ask whether they passed the quarantine inspection The defect of the system brings about the difficulty of law enforcement "Consumers need to improve their awareness of self-protection," said director LAN Dongbin "At present, some citizens have prejudice against law enforcement departments, which interferes with our normal work When we inspect the meat stall in the market, not only the operators do not cooperate, but sometimes even the citizens do not understand Some people even say, "it's not good that beef is cheap Do you want to eat meat for nothing?" In fact, the harm is not to say that the price of beef is higher than that of beef without water injection Affected by various factors, the industrial and commercial personnel have to focus on the transportation of beef, and the difficulty is also conceivable Short comment: do we really have no way? Harbin, Nov 20 (Xinhua) -- a reporter who collected and wrote the report of "water injected beef" sighed to me: "I used to trace the slaughter of pork, toxic rice and pesticide residue vegetables This time, I traced the water injected beef I really don't know what the next target will be Ah - "this sigh also shows the disappointment and confusion of consumers: why is harmful food banned repeatedly? In the face of the growing chaos in the food market, are we really unable to rectify it? Judging from the phenomenon of water injected beef in Harbin, there are still some ways, but we haven't made up our mind to use it or put it in place First of all, poor law enforcement provides fertile soil for the breeding and spread of harmful food As this report shows, the quarantine officers were not at the scene when the live cattle were slaughtered What's the use of such "Quarantine" if you have more quarantine personnel and advanced quarantine equipment? Secondly, the lack of relevant laws and regulations also gives lawbreakers an opportunity Water injected beef is so rampant, but the relevant departments have yet to make rigid regulations on live cattle and live sheep to be slaughtered at designated points in the city In order to control the chaos, we need to pay more attention In order to eradicate harmful food, the urgent task is to improve laws and regulations, strengthen law enforcement and punishment, punish those who are "unethical" to lose their property, put the lawbreakers in jail, and resolutely investigate the responsibility of the malfeasants At the same time, we should learn to standardize the market according to market rules It is very important to regulate the market to protect "regulated enterprises" We should support and encourage the development and growth of "regular enterprises" through financial support, cultivation of famous brands, market facilitation and other measures, instead of watching the designated slaughtering enterprises like Harbin cattle and sheep meat processing factory stop production and close down When the "regulated enterprises" fully occupy the market, that is, when the illegal owners die out by themselves It is also in Harbin In recent years, the government has basically solved the problem of "rest assured pork" by supporting key live pig slaughtering enterprises that abide by the law Since live pigs can be cured, what other reason can't we clean up the cattle that are far heavier than live pigs?!