"Spicy carob, additive-free, freshly made every day" "Handmade mung bean powder skin, 78-year-old grandmother did a lifetime of craftsmanship"...
On short videos and online shopping platforms, Internet celebrity foods with labels such as "handmade", "soil law", "farmhouse" and "earthy taste" are popular.
What is the quality of influencer food? Through a number of live broadcasts, short videos and other online shopping platforms, the reporter purchased 6 copies of net red food, sent to Beijing and Ruixiangtong Detection Technology Co., Ltd. for inspection, the results of 6 products are three no products, and 2 of them have serious problems with pollutants and additives.
And Rui Xiangtong is conducting inspection and analysis of net red food.
Inspection report of spicy squeezed vegetables.
There are no labels on the packaging of spicy squeezed vegetables.
The label of mung bean flour skin is not qualified.
wrap
Net red food mainly "handmade"
"Our family's sausages can be eaten, and although we pay attention to taste, we pay more attention to quality. Don't believe you taste it, there is a quality problem directly returned. Hurry up and tap the little yellow car at the bottom of the screen. In the short video, a seller speaking in a strong dialect is selling his own handmade sausages.
"It's flour skin made at home, drying. Grandma rode an electric tricycle and pulled it home. In the short video, a family is busy in the yard, making mung bean flour skin.
"Secret handmade chili sauce, in the process of packaging." In the short video, someone is filling a glass bottle with a spoon with chili sauce.
Such short videos are familiar to many consumers. In the picture, the environment is a small farm yard, the equipment is household appliances, and the personnel are relatives and friends. Coupled with melodious Chinese style music, the atmosphere is very simple. In this era of industrialization and assembly line, this kind of net red food related to "handicraft", "soil method", "farmhouse" and "earthy taste" is easy to attract some consumers who pursue earthy taste.
In the comments of the short video, you can see such comments: "I haven't tasted this handmade food for a long time", "It's the taste of childhood" and "I drooled when I looked at it".
Sellers pay great attention to the prominent expression of "handicraft", but the description of the added ingredients and hygiene conditions is almost never seen in the video.
Doorway
Add a little "soil law" to double the value
Emphasizing "handicraft", in addition to catering to consumers' pursuit of "earthy taste", there is actually a pursuit of interests.
A 500-gram "handmade spicy sausage" sells for 65.6 yuan. The best-selling "spicy sausages" on the online shopping platform do not have the word "handmade", and the price per 500 grams is about 40 yuan, and it can be cheaper when encountering preferential activities.
A 500-gram "handmade dried white potato" sells for 21.9 yuan. On the online shopping platform, every 500 grams of non-handmade dried white potatoes and dried sweet potatoes generally sell for about 10 yuan.
A 20-sheet "handmade mung bean flour skin" sells for 49.98 yuan. On the online shopping platform, a 50-sheet non-handmade mung bean powder skin only sells for 26.8 yuan.
Some consumers questioned in short video comments that a hot sauce sold more expensive than the average hot sauce. The seller responded: "They are made by machine, I am pure hand to be precious, I do not believe that you can make a few bottles to try." ”
In addition, the purchase of "earthy" products on short video platforms may also face relatively large freight costs. Some sellers do not have free shipping. The two bottles of hot sauce and two packs of radish strips purchased by the reporter are priced at a total of 50 yuan, and the courier fee has to be charged an additional 40 yuan.
Inspection
6 servings of "handmade food" are all "three noes"
In order to test whether the "handmade" net red food is safe, the reporter purchased 6 products from four sellers on multiple platforms. They are: spicy sausage, spicy squeezed vegetables (called "carob" when advertised), dried sweet potatoes, mung bean flour skin, chili sauce, radish strips.
On March 8, the reporter entrusted Beijing heruixiangtong testing technology co., ltd. to conduct food safety-related inspections on these 6 foods. Just after opening the express packaging of these foods, Wang Zefeng, the technical leader of Ruixiangtong Laboratory, found a problem, "First of all, the packaging labels of these 6 samples sent for inspection do not meet the requirements of laws and regulations, and belong to the category of prohibited sales." ”
Wang Zefeng introduced that these 6 foods all belong to the commonly known "three no products". Among them, the packaging of spicy squeezed vegetables and radish strips does not have any labels, and the packaging labels of spicy sausages, dried sweet potatoes, mung bean powder skins, and chili sauce are unqualified.
Because of the limited time, the laboratory has formulated highly targeted inspection projects, mainly including food additive indicators, pollutant indicators, and health indicators. Additive indicators include: preservatives mainly detect sorbic acid, benzoic acid, dehydroacetic acid; sweeteners detect sodium saccharin and cyclamate; stabilizers and leavening agents detect potassium aluminum sulfate (alum); color protectors detect sodium nitrite (potassium). The pollutant index test item is lead. Hygiene indicators detect coliform bacteria (only prepackaged foods are detected). On March 10, the report was released – 2 out of 6 foods were detected with food safety problems.
"The failure rate is already very high." Wang Zefeng explained that when the general national quality inspection department samples, hundreds of batches of food samples are sampled each time, and the unqualified ones are about 10 batches.
Mung bean flour skin lead content exceeded the standard 52%
The National Standard for Food Safety stipulates that the maximum limit value of lead in soy products (except soy milk), starch products and other food categories is 0.5 mg/kg.
The report given by Herui Xiangtong shows that the lead content of the mung bean powder skin sample sent for inspection by Wang's mung bean powder shop was 0.76 mg/kg, exceeding the standard by 52%. It belongs to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 34 of the Food Safety Law as "pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, biotoxins, heavy metals and other polluting substances, as well as other substances harmful to human health content exceeding the limit of food safety standards", and production and operation are prohibited.
Wang Zefeng introduced that lead is a metal element that is harmful to the human body, which can enter the body through the digestive tract and respiratory tract, and is a chronic and cumulative poison. After entering the human body, a small part will be excreted with the body's metabolism, and most of it will be deposited in the body, endangering human health. Heavy metal contamination can occur in the process of food production, crop planting, animal rearing, processing, packaging, storage to transportation, sale, and even consumption, or brought in by environmental pollution. According to his analysis, the raw materials and production equipment of mung bean flour skin may be subject to lead pollution.
The content of expeller citric acid exceeded the standard by 183%
The National Standard for Food Safety The Standard for the Use of Food Additives clearly stipulates that the maximum use of benzoic acid and its sodium salt (in terms of benzoic acid) of pickled vegetables is 1.0 g/kg.
The report given by Herui Xiangtong shows that the sample of Sichuan Meizi spicy squeezed vegetables (carob) sent for testing has a benzoic acid content of 2.83 g/kg, exceeding the standard by 183%. Food that falls under the fourth paragraph of Article 34 of the Food Safety Law and "uses food additives beyond the scope and limit" is prohibited from production and operation.
Wang Zefeng introduced that sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate are the two most widely used food preservatives in China, and are widely used by food enterprises due to the cheap price of sodium benzoate. "Food Safety National Standards Food Additives Use Standards" food additives, in the prescribed amount of use within the use of safe, if exceeding the prescribed safety limits and regulations, then harmless food additives will also become toxic substances, causing great harm to human health. If the amount of sweetener added exceeds the standard, it may cause cancer.
Excessive consumption of sodium benzoate will have an impact on the liver and kidneys of the human body, excessive intake will cause poisoning phenomena such as cramps, and will also lead to intestinal flora disorders. According to his analysis, the purpose of adding sodium benzoate is generally to extend the shelf life.
suggestion
Buy foods with regular labels
Recently, the relevant person in charge of the Supreme People's Procuratorate said that the Supreme People's Procuratorate has taken new online sales formats such as "internet celebrity endorsement" and "live streaming with goods" as key supervision areas involving food safety and regulatory loopholes in the three-year special supervision activities.
As a professional inspector, Wang Zefeng gave consumers advice on buying net red food: "We must buy regular manufacturers and foods with regular labels. Even if something goes wrong, there are channels to trace it. Like a few of the tests this time, some of the packaging has no labels on them, and they can't find the manufacturer if they want to trace it. ”
He introduced that in regular food production enterprises, the source of raw materials, production equipment, production environment, etc. are guaranteed. The use of food additives must also comply with the norms. However, small workshops are difficult to do. "Now you can easily buy food additives online, and small workshops add them, but they are also more casual based on experience, and it is easy to exceed the standard." The Evening News 3.15 reported on the group of articles and photographed together
Source: Beijing Evening News