Recently, the official website of the Hong Kong Consumers Association released a news quoting the 21st Century Business Herald, which claimed that Harbin McDonnell Douglas was a poisonous beer, and the report also put forward the test results of Harbin McDonnell Douglas beer, claiming that the beer has relatively high biogenic amine content and DON content, and long-term consumption of this beer will cause harm to consumers' health.
As soon as the news was reported, the Hong Kong side that bought Harbin McDonnell Douglas beer in stores and took samples from the wine was refuted by Harbin Beer, claiming that their products did not flow into the Hong Kong market and that the beer was sold in Chinese mainland.
He did not stand up and say that there was no problem with his products, nor did he test his own products, and threw out the report to show consumers, but overtook in a corner and said that his products were not sold in Hong Kong.
Turning around the corner to prove that there is no problem, why not directly test the product, netizens have said that Harbin beer is really throwing the pot, and there is no silver three hundred taels here.
It is not difficult to understand why netizens don't trust Harbin Beer, after all, Harbin Beer is just a domestic brand with a name, and it has now become a product of a foreign company wearing domestic skin.
Now Harbin Beer is a joint-stock company, and its parent company is AB InBev, which is a proper foreign-funded enterprise, in fact, Harbin Beer is not controlled by foreign companies at the beginning.
Harbin Beer (hereinafter referred to as Harbin Beer), he was founded in 1900, was the first to be run by Russian businessmen, 8 years later the brewery was renamed, saying that the Gurosia Brewery was run by the Russian Uvatv, more than 20 years later, the factory was renamed Harbin Brewery, this time jointly operated by Chinese Li Zhuchen and Czech Gavrek.
In 1937, the Japanese established the Harbin Beer Branch, and in 1950, the Soviet Red Army handed over the factory to the Chinese government and appointed Chinese as the director.
In 1956, the Harbin Brewery, which had been formed in all eras, was merged into the Harbin Brewery, and three years later the factory used corn instead of rice to produce beer.
This process made the Harbin factory an instant hit, the business mode and production process have changed, Harbin beer sales are getting better and better, in 1998 it was able to rank seventh in the national beer industry, the strength can be seen.
Originally, everyone thought that the factory would continue to be prosperous like this, but in 2004, the American brewer Anheuser, acquired 99.66% of the shares of Harbin Beer.
From this time on, the nature of the company changed, and Budweiser's parent company acquired so many shares of Harbin Beer that the company was privatized, and in a sense it was not a state-owned enterprise but a foreign company.
Consumers were first willing to pay for Harbin Beer, that is, for his name, for him to be a national enterprise, and when it was later acquired by an American company, people began to be reluctant to believe Harbin Beer, and his credibility became less and less, so after the accident, people will be more inclined to the facts, rather than favoring a certain company.
What's more, this time the Hong Kong Consumers' Association also came up with evidence, and the Hong Kong Consumer Council purchased 30 beers from local stores and took samples for testing.
According to the test results, all 30 samples were found to be biogenic amines and DON as deoxynivalenol, a toxin known as vomitoxin, which is produced by viruses that can attack grains such as wheat, oats, corn, etc.
For example, when sake brewing is made, corn and other grains are used as raw materials, which means that if a sake brewer uses raw materials that produce toxins after disease, the quality of the sake will also be affected.
According to the rules set by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, these 30 beers that were detected as problematic all contained these toxic and harmful substances and were substandard products.
If the intake of DON exceeds the daily tolerable intake, it will cause people to have toxic reactions, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and diarrhea and other symptoms, and will find innocent consumers who have drunk inferior wine, and these toxic and harmful substances hidden in the wine will attack the consumer's digestive system and nervous system.
Products that can pose a huge threat to consumers' health should not continue to be traded in the market, the Hong Kong Consumer Council exposed the incident, and the reporter also contacted the Harbin Brewery.
However, Harbin Brewery said that they did not sell alcohol in Hong Kong, and for the time being, it is not said whether the feedback given by Harbin Beer is real, but just looking at the logical development of this matter, when an organization or association questions a certain company and gives evidence to prove that some of their products have problems.
What organizations or associations and consumers care about, it is obviously the quality of the product, and the relevant reports and test certificates of the products given by the manufacturers involved are the most powerful responses to consumers and certain organizations or associations.
Examining the authenticity of the samples provided by the Hong Kong Consumer Council on the premise of proving that there is no problem with the quality of their products seems to be more in line with some people's search ideas, but Harbin Brewery did not do this.
However, it is precisely because Harbin Beer has denied the product itself that some people have noticed the related products of Harbin Beer submitted for inspection by the Hong Kong Consumer Council, according to reports, the products submitted for inspection are 500ml canned products.
After the 21st Century Business Herald reporter called the Harbin Beer flagship store, the customer service of the flagship store said that the flagship store did not sell the beer sent by the Hong Kong Consumer Council for inspection.
At present, both the Hong Kong Consumer Council and the Harbin Brewery have their own opinions, and it is not yet possible to confirm whether the products submitted by the Hong Kong side for inspection are produced by the Harbin Brewery.
However, it can be affirmed that if the products submitted by the Hong Kong side for inspection are really produced by Harbin Beer, then the products that are detected as problematic must be dealt with in accordance with the law, and the beer that endangers human health cannot continue to circulate in the market.
Source: The Paper - Harbin Brewery Responds to Detection of Vomitoxin: The Detected Ones Are Only Produced and Sold in the Mainland