A few days ago, a vocational and technical college in Jiangxi Province broke out a "rat head duck neck" food safety incident, which was widely spread on the Internet and aroused social concern. According to the latest news, the party to the incident, Jiangxi Zhongkuai Logistics Service Co., Ltd. and its related responsible persons have been severely punished, with a total fine of 7.06 million yuan.
Among them, Jiangxi Zhongkuai Company was fined 100,000 yuan and ordered to confiscate more than 13,000 yuan of illegal gains; Zhu Moumou, the legal representative of the company, was fined 10 times last year's annual income, that is, 2.84 million yuan; Tao Moumou, the company's food safety director, was fined 8 times last year's annual income, that is, 1.85 million yuan; Yi Moumou, the person in charge of the first canteen, was fined 9 times his annual income last year, that is, 2.26 million yuan.
This incident stemmed from the repeated occurrence of problematic foods such as "rat head rice" and "duck neck vegetables" in the school cafeteria, which led to repeated complaints from students. According to the disclosure, on June 1, when a student ordered food in the school's first cafeteria, a foreign object suspected to be a rat's head was found in the meal; On June 8, a student buys groceries at the fast food window of the same cafeteria.
There was a green worm mixed in it; On June 13, a student also found black bugs in the bibime noodles he bought at the No. 1 cafeteria. As these problems occurred in a short period of time and spread rapidly through the Internet, the reputation of the school has been seriously damaged. As the contractor of the canteen, Jiangxi Zhongkuai Company is to blame and has also become the focus of public criticism. This time, he was severely punished and punished for being primarily responsible.
Judging from the punishment results, Jiangxi Zhongkuai Logistics Service Co., Ltd., as a canteen contractor, failed to achieve "safety on the tip of the tongue" and bears the primary responsibility that cannot be shirked.
The company's legal representative Zhu Moumou, food safety director Tao Moumou, and Yi Moumou, the first person responsible for operation and management, as the direct responsible persons for their respective positions, should also bear the consequences caused by this. Their negligence directly led to this serious food safety liability accident and should be punished by law.
This is not the first time that the "rat head duck neck" problem has been exposed. As early as 2022, the appearance of "rat head rice" and "duck neck vegetables" in a school canteen in Nanchang has aroused social concern.
At that time, some media reported that a number of students were eating in the cafeteria of Nanchang Hangkong University when they found foreign objects suspected to be rat carcasses in their meals. The incident also spread on the Internet, raising concerns about campus food safety from all walks of life.
Food safety issues are directly related to the health of consumers, and more importantly, to people's livelihood and well-being. At present, the mainland is in a stage where the food safety situation is still severe, and there is still a long way to go.
It can be seen from the frequent occurrence of "rat head and duck neck" incidents in Nanchang that there are food safety management loopholes in both school canteens and various catering providers. The regulatory authorities need to strengthen the constraints from the management system and urge all kinds of catering service providers to implement the main responsibility.
This time, Jiangxi Zhongkuai Logistics Service Co., Ltd. was heavily fined, and the executives of the enterprises who were directly responsible were also severely punished, which can be said to be a warning to the industry. However, if we only rely on the punishment of the responsible subjects, and ignore the strengthening of system construction and supervision, it will be difficult to fundamentally eradicate such incidents.
Food safety work requires the participation of regulatory departments, industry associations, catering enterprises, consumers and other parties to form a joint force, so that people can truly eat at ease.
At present, with the development of the Internet and the speed of public opinion, once food safety issues appear, they will quickly arouse strong social concern. Therefore, all kinds of catering service enterprises must give priority to food quality and safety, and truly enhance quality awareness and responsibility awareness. The relevant person in charge should also establish the concept of "one post and two responsibilities", and should not only be responsible for defending the land, but also responsible for food.
Regulatory departments at all levels should increase the intensity of irregular inspections, focusing on the supervision of special groups of people such as schools and hospitals, and strictly prevent the occurrence of such problems. Only by forming a systematic and linked regulatory pattern and making everyone responsible for food safety can the masses eat at ease.