Recently, the Public Security Organs of Hangzhou Municipality organized the "Loyalty No. 5" operation, together with the Hangzhou Municipal Market Supervision and other departments, in Yuhang, Xiaoshan and Huzhou Deqing and other places to carry out centralized collection of the production and sale of toxic and harmful food (illegal processing of cattle blinds) cases, arrested a total of 27 people involved in the case, destroyed 7 gangs, destroyed 7 illegal processing and storage dens, 2 tons of offal products, seized a batch of non-edible substances used for processing soaked tripe, beef blinds, beef tendons, pig ears formaldehyde, hanging white blocks and other non-edible substances, and completely cut off a production and sale." Illegal processing of animal offal" black industrial chain. At present, 18 of the people involved in the case have been taken compulsory measures in accordance with law.
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The black-hearted business of unscrupulous traders
The Hangzhou police have always attached great importance to food safety issues such as "rice bags", "vegetable baskets" and "fruit plates" for the people.
Since the beginning of this year, the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau's Environmental Food and Drug Department, together with the market supervision department, has started from the work of epidemic prevention and control to crack down on smuggled frozen products, aimed at the "cow blind leaf", which is an animal offal ingredient that the public concerns, gave full play to the advantages of the public security organs' position control, and found through the work that some illegal wholesalers in Hangzhou used non-edible substances such as formaldehyde and hanging white blocks to soak and increase weight and bleach beef tripe and cattle blind leaf in order to increase sales and enhance visual effects, and in Yuhang Gouzhuang, Xiaoshan Xinnongdu and Xiasha Jiuqiao and other farmers' market stalls are sold to the outside world. After sampling and testing, all the ingredients that the state explicitly prohibited from adding were detected.
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According to the clues obtained by the preliminary investigation, the Hangzhou police immediately set up a special team to carry out further investigation and found that these illegal and criminal gangs were well organized and had a clear division of labor, and that the three links of raw material procurement, soaking processing, and wholesale sales were all responsible.
After purchasing animal offal frozen products from frozen product markets and other places, the criminal suspects first thawed the frozen animals in hidden locations such as some agricultural settlements in Deqing, Yuhang, and Xiaoshan, and then stewed them with boiling water, and then used non-edible substances such as formaldehyde and hanging white blocks to soak and increase weight and bleach beef belly and cattle blinds, and sold them to the outside world in the early morning of the next day. At present, the case is still under further investigation, the food involved in the case has been removed from the shelves and sealed, and the food business units involved in the case are investigating and handling.
Police prompt
Hangzhou police remind the general public: the use of formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, caustic soda and other chemical substances to soak in processing tripe, beef louver is an illegal act of adding non-edible substances in the food processing process, suspected of food safety criminal offenses.
If consumers find similar illegal acts, they can call the complaint and reporting telephone number 12345 to the public security and market supervision departments.
When buying ingredients such as tripe, beef blinds, and chicken feet, please try to purchase from regular markets, supermarkets and other channels, do not buy from unlicensed vendors such as roadside stalls, and do not covet cheaper ingredients that are too low prices. Avoid picking products with abnormal colors and irritating odors.
Source: Zhejiang Public Security
Source: Zhejiang Online