In recent days, blue-ringed octopus has frequently appeared on major platforms, and just yesterday (January 17), some netizens posted that their family bought aquatic products containing highly toxic blue-ringed octopus in Sam.
To know that the blue ring octopus is deeply poisonous, once bitten or accidentally eaten, it will definitely cause human life, quite serious, for a time, the "Shenzhen Sam blue ring octopus incident" circulated on the Internet.
On January 18, Sam issued an official response to this matter, Sam issued a note saying: The frozen octopus produced by the company, the raw materials from the factory processing, to the finished product factory sales, each process is strictly screened to ensure that there is no blue ring octopus.
In addition, Sam also said that the company's octopus raw materials are caught from Chinese waters, and blue-ringed octopuses rarely appear in mainland waters. After the raw materials enter the factory, the octopus raw materials will enter the factory for processing and production after being accepted by the quality controller.
The production process of frozen octopus: raw material acceptance, pre-treatment (removal of internal organs, ink sacs), cleaning, grading, selection, re-acceptance, weighing and plating, quick freezing, packaging, metal detection, warehousing and refrigeration and other processes.
Every stage of the company's octopus processing is staffed by specially trained blue-ringed octopus selection staff. Selected personnel should undergo training on related poisonous octopus species such as blue-ringed octopus before taking up their posts, and pass the assessment before they can take up their posts.
In view of the company's strict selection of blue-ringed octopus in the processing process of frozen octopus, the company made the following explanation: there is no blue-ringed octopus in the frozen octopus produced by the company, and all batches produced by our company have not been mixed with blue-ringed octopus.
It is worth noting that after the Sam Blue Ring Octopus incident was exposed, the blogger who first disclosed the news also explained the relevant doubts of "creating public opinion", saying that he initially left a message to the human customer service on Sam's App, but he never got a reply, so he sent a Weibo to ask for the identification of the natural history magazine.
The museum magazine also replied to the netizen, saying: This is fresher, the ring is bluer and more obvious, it is easy to see. After turning over countless octopus questions a day, this friend "won", it can be seen that the probability is not high, you can keep an eye on it, but don't panic too much.