Source: Jiangsu News
Using half a bamboo tube to fill milk tea, ice cream and other foods, and then affixing local place name labels, it immediately became the so-called "bamboo drink" and "bamboo tube ice cream", since this spring, this new and unique so-called "bamboo tube milk tea" has been popular in tourist attractions and restaurants all over the country. Are these bamboo tubes as containers hygienic? Is there a hidden danger of consumption behind it? Recently, according to clues, reporters from Jiangsu Radio, Television and Financial Media News Center, together with the market supervision and public security departments of Qinhuai District of Nanjing, conducted a 20-day overt inspection and covert visit to the bamboo tube milk tea market in the scenic area of Fuzimiao.
Question 1:
Pick it up in the trash and clean it up Where did these bamboo tubes go?
Recently, investigators visited the Confucius Temple area in Nanjing and found that some people went to garbage cans and other places to pick up bamboo tubes discarded by tourists after drinking drinks.
On April 17, dozens of bamboo tubes with obvious signs of use were stacked on tables in front of the bungalow in the Yaojia Lane neighborhood near Nanjing's Confucius Temple area, a phenomenon that immediately attracted the attention of investigators.
On the night of April 18, two to three hundred bamboo tubes were densely placed on the ground in front of the bungalow, and although these bamboo tubes looked relatively clean, the inner walls of the tubes were basically attached to dirt and attracted flies and mosquitoes. In the pool at the door, there are bamboo tubes that are obviously moldy. From time to time, people claiming to be cleaners bring used bamboo tubes here. They said that the men who lived in this house specially collected old bamboo tubes.
"There are 3 corners of the bamboo tube, he collected 5 jiao before, and the more people who sent him will be 3 jiao. He washed and processed 5 dimes a piece, and the fellow came to wash him, and he didn't know how to use it. I picked up two in the market, a dozen in total. The cleaner said.
When asked where the bamboo tube was picked up, a cleaner said, "There are many garbage cans, and people throw them in the garbage cans." ”
Reporter: "Isn't the inside of the trash can dirty?" ”
Cleaner: "It's dirty, wash it, he processes and sells it." ”
Reporter: "To whom to sell?" ”
Cleaner: "I don't know, he said to sell to the field." ”
Reporter: "What is inside this bamboo tube?" ”
Cleaner: "People drink ice cream, milk tea, and boil it with boiling water, so that they can be washed very well." ”
Near midnight, the door opened, and the reporter saw the man recycling the bamboo tube. He said he had washed the bamboo tubes on the ground and dried them outside so that they could be packed and sold out after drying, but he denied that they would end up in the food market.
Man recycling bamboo tubes: "Sell them for bonsai." ”
Reporter: "How much does it cost to sell?" ”
The man who recycles the bamboo tube: "It's about two yuan a piece." ”
Through nearly half a month's observation, investigators found that this bungalow stored bamboo tubes almost every day, and there were constantly freshly washed bamboo tubes, but they couldn't see the shipment. Some cleaners said with great certainty that these bamboo tubes are definitely not sold to others to make bonsai.
Reporter: "How much can he collect every day?" ”
Cleaner: "Sometimes hundreds a day, sometimes dozens a day, not necessarily." ”
Question 2:
Simple to clean and not sterilized Is this "cutlery" safe?
After a long visit, investigators also found that the second floor of this "Jiangnan Snack City" located on Dashiba Street in the Confucius Temple Scenic Area was also a bamboo tube cleaning point. On April 29, in a room on the second floor, four or five workers were cleaning bamboo tubes in plastic containers with black water.
The on-site personnel said that they have a drink shop in the scenic area, and these bamboo tubes will be sent to the store for disinfection after simple cleaning, and only after disinfection will they be used by customers.
On-site cleaning staff: "Take it to the store and disinfect it with a disinfection cabinet." We washed it, washed it twice, rinsed it again, took it away, took it to the store and put it in the disinfection cabinet. ”
Reporter: "Are you all new bamboo tubes?" See for yourself, dirty to death. ”
On-site cleaning staff: "It's brand new. Because the outside of Hsinchu is not all dirt. ”
Judging by the senses and the large number of cardboard boxes stacked on site, it is indeed a new bamboo tube washed here, but the hygiene situation is worrying. Because the business of the drink shop in front of it is so good, almost every few moments, someone urges them to quickly send the washed bamboo tubes to the store. The person in charge of the cleaning point said: "Usually 10 boxes a day. 70 in a box, today there are more than a dozen boxes. ”
Investigators found that the bamboo tubes washed here were basically delivered to the two beverage shops "Brown Jiangnan" and "Nanjing Taste" in Gongyuan Street of Confucius Temple. Although both beverage shops have disinfection cabinets, the bamboo tubes delivered are not sterilized and are directly labeled for customers to use.
Reporter: "It stands to reason that you have to disinfect to give it to customers, why don't you disinfect?" ”
"Brown Jiangnan" beverage shop staff: "There is a problem with the operation, it is a problem with the operation on my side." ”
The person in charge of the "Nanjing Taste" drink shop: "This is freshly washed. ”
Reporter: "It's cold, no disinfection?" ”
The person in charge of the "Nanjing Taste" drink shop: "Stop, until the temperature equipment stops." ”
Raids
Moldy recycled bamboo tubes are sent to foreign milk tea shops
After many days of inspection and evidence collection, on May 12, the market supervision and public security departments of Qinhuai District jointly conducted a surprise investigation of the above-mentioned places.
In this bungalow in the Yaojiaxiang community, the man who recycles the bamboo tubes admitted that his bamboo tubes were collected by the cleaners in the scenic area and sold to him. But he denied selling the bamboo tubes to hold food, saying they were used to make bonsai.
But express delivery records show that the man sold recycled and washed bamboo tubes to milk tea shops in Hebei and other places. In the chat record, the buyer has also repeatedly reported that the bamboo tube is broken or moldy.
In the face of evidence, the man had to admit that the recycled bamboo tubes were resold to the food industry, "This person in Langfang, Hebei Province, bought it from the Internet and ordered it online." I sold him one or two dollars a piece, and he went back to make bamboo milk tea, and I don't know if there was a shop later, he said he was going to use it. ”
Zhang Xin, head of the product quality and measurement certification and accreditation supervision section of the Nanjing Qinhuai District Market Supervision Bureau, said: "In view of the current situation, the bamboo tubes he recovered are mainly sold online and sold to these places in Hebei. In the next step, we will file a case for investigation of the illegal operators and transfer the relevant illegal clues to the market supervision departments in Hebei and other places. ”
Regulatory authorities
Order to immediately stop non-compliant behavior, and strictly investigate "new tableware"
At the washing point on Dashiba Street in the Confucius Temple Scenic Area, the person in charge said that after repeated publicity and education by the market supervision department, he had standardized the cleaning method and added disinfection facilities. However, law enforcement officers found that the room used for this washing point was actually the washing room of the restaurant downstairs, and could not be used for other purposes at all. It is also not in line with the regulations for beverage shops to place washing points elsewhere without obtaining additional permits.
Wang Zhihao, head of the food safety supervision section of the Nanjing Qinhuai District Market Supervision Bureau, explained: "As a food business unit, the registered address is in Wendeqiao, then it should be cleaned there, it is obviously not possible to do it here, and this place is not permitted." In addition, this operation room is the operation room of the hotel downstairs, and they also have to rectify it. ”
Law enforcement officers found that the "Tea Jiangnan" drink shop was owned by the person in charge of the washing point, and that he sold some of the bamboo tubes he cleaned to the "Nanjing Taste" drink shop, which also did not comply with the regulations. Wang Zhihao said: "The person in charge rented a house there and then sold bamboo tubes to the 'Nanjing Taste' beverage store, and there was an unlicensed operation." ”
At present, the law enforcement authorities have asked the "Tea Jiangnan" beverage store to stop cleaning bamboo tubes in non-compliant places, strictly implement cleaning and disinfection procedures, and will further investigate and deal with the two beverage stores "Brown Jiangnan" and "Nanjing Taste".
The market supervision department said that through market sampling and visit investigation, it can be determined that most of the dozens of bamboo tube milk tea shops in the Confucius Temple Scenic Area are legal and compliant operations, and non-compliance occurs from time to time due to factors such as the size and scale of the venue.
Wang Zhihao said: "In the next step, we will focus on new and novel tableware in the whole region, especially focusing on some on-site production and sales units, because the area of the venue is relatively small, and the special inspection of cleaning, disinfection and cleaning of tableware." For some on-site manufacturing and sales units that do not have the conditions for cleaning, disinfection and cleaning, we will require that the use of non-disposable food-related products be stopped and replaced with disposable products in accordance with the law to ensure that the relevant food products for direct consumption meet food safety standards. ”
The food industry is a project of conscience, and the bottom line of safety cannot be broken. We will remain concerned about the final handling of the above behavior.