In 11 years, the black-hearted roast duck gang was arrested, the cost was less than 3 yuan, and 50,000 were sold every month: I didn't dare to eat it

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When it comes to Beijing, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is Beijing's famous delicacy - Peking duck.

However, for such a delicacy, the attitude of the public is not at all as eager as in previous years, but a little disgusted.

It's no wonder, after all, whoever watched the black-hearted roast duck in 2011 will refresh their perception of roast duck.

What's going on?

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«——【Black-hearted Roast Duck Incident·】——»

The cause of this incident has to start with the experience of a foreign tourist who was miserable.

At that time, a tourist spent a high price at a Beijing specialty shop and bought a bag of vacuum roast duck souvenirs called "Quanjude".

The good fellow went home and was dumbfounded when he opened it - what a whole duck, there was only some meat scrap mixed with bone sticks, and the worst thing was that there was a rancid smell of rotten eggs!

What's even more annoying is that the amount has shrunk severely, and the packaging is clearly printed with "net content 2 kg", and as a result, even the belt sauce is weighed on the scale, and it is less than a pound and a half!

Angry tourists posted complaints on the Internet, but they did not expect to resonate with a large number of netizens, and many shared their experiences of buying something similar to "rotten meat roast duck".

Some people bought the roast duck "as red as bloody, coagulated mud", some people found that the production date on the packaging bag was actually a future date, and some netizens even ate maggots in the roast duck.

For a time, topics such as "Beijing Roast Duck Pit People" and "Black-hearted Specialties" swept the Internet, and the reputation of time-honored brands such as Quanjude suffered a heavy blow, and Beijing's tourism industry was also pushed to the forefront.

Seeing that public opinion was fermenting more and more fiercely, the Beijing police quickly intervened in the investigation.

Following the clues on the vacuum packaging bag, the law enforcement officers traced it all the way to Nanyi Village, Boye County, Hebei Province.

As for this village, which is famous for its "boiled chicken street", it is actually the source of the production of "black-hearted roast duck".

When the police saw the production environment of the roast duck, the rice almost vomited.

I saw that the sanitary condition in the workshop was extremely poor, which can be said to be a typical representative of dirty and messy.

On the ground, where sewage flows, thawed duck racks are piled up haphazardly, flies hover over carrion, and the smell of rot fills the air.

As for the production process, it is even more "simple and crude".

They buy the cheapest duck racks from the market, and the quality of these duck racks is worrying, and many of them have gone bad, smelly and even have maggots.

After investigation, the cost of each of these ducks is less than 3 yuan, and some even cost less than 3 yuan.

The duck racks are then simply washed and steamed, then thickly wrapped in flour and coated with sweet paste, honey and additives such as red yeast rice and syrup to give it a golden colour, like a carefully roasted Peking duck.

And to add weight, they add a lot of low-quality sweet noodle sauce to the package.

It can be said that the whole process of roasting duck does not have any formal roasting process at all, and there is no attention to hygienic conditions.

Workers do not wear gloves and masks, and directly stir the sauce with their hands; The cooked duck rack is not sterilized and goes directly to the vacuum packaging process.

What is even more ironic is that these so-called "roast ducks" are never roasted, but are steamed, colored, and packaged in three steps, which do not even meet basic hygiene standards.

But don't underestimate this low-cost black-hearted roast duck, which is quite profitable.

According to the investigation, the gang sells about 50,000 black-hearted roast ducks a month, and they wholesale the roast ducks to distributors or agents at very low prices, and these middlemen sell them to consumers at prices ranging from 15 to 30 yuan.

As a result, the profit margin for each roast duck is huge, and the whole gang makes huge profits from it.

Based on the average price of 20 yuan per roast duck, the monthly sales are as high as 1 million yuan, while the cost is less than 150,000 yuan, and the net profit is very amazing.

Moreover, in order to obtain more profits, these black-hearted traders also made the packaging of roast duck very exquisite, imitating the packaging of well-known brands such as "Quanjude", making it difficult for consumers to distinguish the real from the fake.

They even falsified food safety inspection reports to deceive dealers and consumers, so that these inferior roast ducks entered the market in a grand manner, deceiving many tourists and consumers.

After the incident was exposed, the police tested the low-quality roast duck.

The results found that the total number of colonies of these roast ducks exceeded the standard by more than 1,100 times, the group of E. coli exceeded the standard by dozens of times, and some samples were even detected with spoilage bacteria and parasites.

In court, the confessions of the main culprits Kong Lingye, Yuan Jichang and others were chilling: "I know that this thing is not clean, and I never dare to eat it." ”

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Yuefeng even admitted that they only dared to sell "roast duck" to outsiders because "locals would be more serious."

In the end, the five defendants were sentenced to 3-6 years in prison for the crime of producing and selling fake and shoddy products, and the factory involved in the case had their licenses revoked and fined 200,000 yuan.

Seeing this, are many people reluctant to eat roast duck?

Actually, there is no need to be so afraid, so I will tell you how to buy roast duck.

Time-honored brands like Quanjude and Dadong, although the price is more expensive, they have their own breeding bases and standardized production lines, and the ducks have a strict quality inspection process from hatching to serving.

If you don't have time to go to a physical store, online platforms such as JD.com's self-operated and brand official websites are also relatively reliable, at least to ensure that the packaging and logistics meet hygiene standards.

The packaging of regular roast duck is bright but not dazzling, for example, the vacuum packaging of Quanjude is red and yellow, the printing is clear, and there will be no blurry ghosting.

The production date on the bag is inkjet printed in uneven font size, while fakes are often hot-pressed and coded, and the numbers are neatly arranged.

An authentic Beijing duck is reared for 90 days, costs at least 40 yuan, and with the cost of roasting and packaging, a roast duck with a retail price of less than 80 yuan has to be suspected of using inferior raw materials.

If you see a "special roast duck" for 15 yuan, you can basically conclude that it is made of frozen white-striped duck or even duck rack, this kind of duck has a growth period of only 30 days, not to mention the dry meat quality, and may also use hormones and preservatives.

Remember, you get what you pay for, and true delicacy is never so cheap that you can't believe it.

Finally, if you are unfortunate enough to buy black-hearted roast duck, don't consider yourself unlucky.

You can call 12315 or 12331 to complain, keep the proof of purchase and photos and videos of the problematic products, and the relevant departments will intervene in the investigation.