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Starbucks, a world-renowned coffee brand, has more than 5,100 directly operated stores in China. Starbucks made a commitment on its official website: "Based on the highest industry standards, develop and strictly implement Starbucks gold food safety standards." "But recently, during the undercover investigation of the Beijing News reporter, it overturned!
The Beijing News reporter recently undercover investigation in two Starbucks stores in Wuxi Found that under the so-called "gold standard", some stores touched the red line of food safety: the ingredients continued to be used after expiration, and they were sold as a number of best-selling drinks; the supervisor and the clerk "taught by example" to tamper with the shelf life, and some ingredients were "extended" for a week; the pastries that promised to "not stay overnight after opening" were secretly put on the shelves the next day. The reporter went undercover for many days and found that the above chaos is not accidental, driven by interests and regulatory omissions, some stores follow the "unspoken rules" of food safety.
A Starbucks clerk told reporters that every half a month, the store's superior management department will go to the store to inspect. During the undercover of the Starbucks Zhenze Road store, the reporter witnessed such an inspection. But to the reporter's surprise, the clerk was not nervous when he saw the inspectors coming to the door. The reporter saw that after the inspectors arrived at the store, the store duty supervisor signaled a clerk to clean the bar in time, and let him check the shelf life of the ingredients in advance. With only one inspector, the clerk can dispose of expired ingredients or quickly replace them with new shelf life labels as they inspect other items. Sometimes, in order to avoid accidents, the clerk will tear off the old label in advance to hide the true shelf life. Unsurprisingly, in the end, the inspector found small, innocuous problems.
Why not scrap expired ingredients in a timely manner? A Starbucks employee explained to reporters that the company has to assess the turnover and profit margin of the store, and if the cost of ingredients is too high, these data will not look good. He admitted that although Starbucks' regulations are strict, there are still problems in implementation. The old employees in the early days developed a bad habit, "the master takes the apprentice, basically the people who teach it, generation after generation are like this, and they don't care about the rules." Read more >>>
On the morning of the 13th, a reporter from the Beijing News called the Food Business Office of the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Xinwu District, Wuxi City. A staff member said that they have been investigating and collecting evidence at the site of the Starbucks Zhenze Road store, and will next announce the details of the investigation according to the situation; the Wuxi Economic Development Zone Market Supervision and Administration Bureau also told reporters that the staff has rushed to the Starbucks Changxing Building store for on-site investigation. Read the full >>>
On the same day, Starbucks China responded to the matter:
We have followed the reports about two Starbucks stores in Wuxi. We are deeply shocked by the food safety issues covered in the report. We are highly concerned about this incident, and have closed these two stores at the first time and immediately launched an in-depth investigation.
In the 22 years since entering the Chinese market, we have been committed to implementing strict food safety standards and adopting a resolute zero-tolerance attitude towards food safety issues. We welcome the public and the media to conduct continuous supervision of us. Read the full >>>
Looking around on the Internet, the style of the comment area about starbucks investigation is a little strange, and many people have helped Starbucks find excuses. Recently, from the world chain brands with a long history to the emerging Internet celebrity brands, many brands have been punished and rectified for food safety problems during inspections. China has always adhered to the bottom line of food safety, which has nothing to do with the brand "is the soil is foreign", regardless of brand ownership, as long as there are loopholes in food safety, overturning is inevitable.
In any case, the most appropriate relationship between consumers and merchants is always that consumers pay the corresponding price and merchants provide qualified goods. If there is a problem with the product, then consumers should urge the merchant to rectify or even compensate. As for consumers helping merchants "find excuses", there is no need. Read the full >>>
This year marks the 84th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. Today is the 8th National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council solemnly held a ceremony for the victims of the 2021 Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing on the morning of the 13th.
At 10 o'clock, the ceremony began, and the audience sang the "National Anthem of the People's Republic of China". After the national anthem was sung, the audience held a moment of silence to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, the Nanjing City sounded the air defense siren, the car stopped driving and honked, and the pedestrians observed silence on the spot. After a moment of silence, in the melody of the "National Sacrifice Dedication Song" played by the PLA Military Band, 16 salute soldiers of the PLA Honor Guard Brigade raised 8 wreaths and offered them on the public altar.
After that, Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, delivered a speech saying: Today we solemnly hold a state ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, to deeply remember the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, to remember all the compatriots who died by the Japanese aggressors, to remember the revolutionary martyrs and national heroes who gave their lives for the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan, to declare the solemn stand of the Chinese people to learn from history and open up the future, and to express their lofty desire to unswervingly take the road of peaceful development. Read the full >>>
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded China and caused the Nanjing Massacre. In six weeks, more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed, with an average of one compatriot dying every 12 seconds. The 300,000 victims meant that it was more than the total number of deaths in Britain and France during World War II, and the handles could be seen in rows from Nanjing to Hangzhou.
As the 1984 years passed, as of press time, there were only 61 surviving survivors registered by the Victims' Assistance Association of the Japanese Army invading China in Nanjing. Read the full >>>
The smoke of that year has dissipated, and our ability to create a better life is unprecedented, but the problems facing mankind have not disappeared. Today, we are in the midst of major changes unprecedented in a century, the world is undergoing new major adjustments and changes, and non-traditional security threats such as terrorism, cybersecurity, major infectious diseases, and climate change continue to spread and threaten the world.
But wherever the future goes, peace and development should also be eternal themes. Today, we have summed up lessons from history, stood at the height of history, and cherished the well-being of mankind, and have made a responsible choice. On China's National Day of Commemoration, this question is also worth pondering for the world. Read the full >>>
It is no secret that CNKI's remuneration is "meager". The 89-year-old retired old professor defended his rights for 8 years, and finally waited for CNKI to admit his mistake. This time, it is still a long-criticized payment model.
"They didn't notify me, they posted my articles online, and I had to charge for downloading them myself." Zhao Dexin insisted on going to court, "it is the hegemony of the anti-academic platform." They use intellectual articles without giving money, but they sell them for money, making more than a billion yuan a year. Such a "crusade" is not unfamiliar to CNKI. In 2019, the actor Zhai Tianlin's academic misconduct incident has been fermented several times, and together with it is CNKI that has come to the spotlight - higher gross profit margins than peers, monopoly position in academia and high fees have once again caused controversy, and some scholars have even publicly denounced CNKI's paper "monopoly business".
The reporter saw from the NOTICE OFC dissertation remuneration that after review by the magazine, the right to produce the accepted dissertation is protected by law, and after the dissertation is published in a Chinese academic journal, the author can continuously receive the manuscript fee from the magazine. Although the billing method is clear, CNKI pays the author a cumbersome process and requires the author to take the initiative to fill out the information form. The homepage of the official website of CNKI has set up a "Notice of Remuneration for Dissertations", which says, "You confirm that the authors of published dissertations will contact our company to receive remuneration".
However, Liu Yuchuan, a chemistry teacher at Guangxi University, told reporters that the school signed a contract with CNKI, as long as the campus network is used to log on to CNKI, there is no charge for downloading papers, check and pay separately, and finally the graduation thesis is uploaded by the school to CNKI, and students will not get paid. The reporter learned that there is a similar situation among teachers and students in multiple schools.
Zhao Dexin said that more than 160 of his articles were included in CNKI without authorization, and he never received the notification of inclusion and the fee, so he decided to sue for rights protection. The reporter noted that in one of the judgments, Zhao Dexin found that "China Zhi" was good at providing the public with the services of reading and downloading his own books. In this regard, the court held that, based on the signature and publication of the works involved in the case, in the case of contrary evidence, this court may determine that the plaintiff is the author who enjoys the right to disseminate information about the works involved in the case. The defendant published the plaintiff's work involved in the case on the "jizhi" software it operated and allowed the internet to download it, so that the public could obtain the work at a selected time and place, which has constituted an infringement on the plaintiff's right to disseminate information on the Internet.
On December 10, CNKI issued a note expressing its apology to Professor Zhao Dexin, while comprehensively inspecting the copyright protection and use authorization methods under the Internet format, and carefully analyzing the work deficiencies and flaws in each link of the copyright authorization chain. Read the full >>>
2021 is coming to an end, the New Year's Day Spring Festival holiday is coming, and many places have issued notices to advocate the local New Year. How to implement the "local New Year" to balance people's emotions and reality?
After experiencing the special situation of the Spring Festival in 2020 and the general local New Year of the Spring Festival in 2021, in the Spring Festival of 2022, when advocating the Local New Year, it is necessary to take into account the needs of epidemic prevention and the needs of the reunion of thousands of families more scientifically and humanely.
On the one hand, it is necessary to take into account the ability of social psychology to withstand as the epidemic prevention front continues to lengthen. As the most important traditional festival, the Spring Festival is also an opportunity to heal emotions and relieve stress in the context of the epidemic. On the other hand, after experiencing the epidemic prevention test of the peak of personnel flow such as the "Eleventh" holiday, whether it is the normalization of the epidemic prevention mechanism or the awareness of personal epidemic prevention, all localities have accumulated a lot of experience in doing a good job in "dynamic epidemic prevention" during the Spring Festival. In addition, the increase in vaccination rate has also added a layer of protection for epidemic prevention and safety during the Spring Festival in 2022.
In the final analysis, in the context of the normalization of scientific epidemic prevention, all localities should be prepared for policy changes that may be brought about by changes in the epidemic situation, formulate plans in advance, and provide clear Spring Festival travel information reference for personnel abroad to the greatest extent; at the same time, they must also combine the local prevention and control situation, scientifically and carefully do various guarantees and prevention and control arrangements, and the public must also fulfill the responsibility of the "first responsible person" for scientific epidemic prevention.
For some high-risk areas, or areas with greater epidemic prevention pressure and more complicated situations such as border crossings, it is undoubtedly more necessary to advocate the local New Year. In addition, some areas that carry out major activities should also have stricter standards for epidemic prevention during the Spring Festival. For most low-risk areas, although it is also possible to advocate "local New Year's Eve without necessary circumstances", the normal need for mobility and return to new year should not be ignored. Read the full >>>
Edited by Jia Congcong, Li Jiarong, proofread by Li Lijun