Recently, it happened in a city in Guangdong
Because consumers eat puffer fish at restaurants
Triggers an incident of food poisoning
To avoid similar events
Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau
Post food safety risk alerts
Puffer fish
The scientific name pufferfish, because it contains tetrodotoxin, is easy to be poisoned after eating and leads to nerve paralysis, and then dizziness, vomiting, numbness of lips and fingers, general weakness and other symptoms, serious life-threatening. There are currently no specific antidotes and treatments.
Puffer fish although highly toxic
But there are still some consumers
He likes to fish and process it himself
Or entrust the catering service unit to process and eat
This happens every year
Food poisoning caused by the consumption of puffer fish
Prevention and control of puffer fish poisoning
In recent years, in order to prevent and control puffer fish poisoning accidents and ensure the safety of consumers, the former Ministry of Agriculture and the State Food and Drug Administration have conditionally liberalized the processing and operation of farmed redfin oriental pufferfish and farmed dark-striped oriental pufferfish. According to the relevant documents, the breeding of puffer fish should be processed by qualified agricultural product processing enterprises in accordance with the relevant standards and inspected before it can be sold, and the pufferfish of the processing enterprises should originate from the river pufferfish source base filed by the agricultural department. Puffer fish processing products shall be packaged, with traceable two-dimensional codes attached to the packaging, and indicate the product name, implementation standards, raw material bases and processing enterprise names and filing numbers, processing dates, shelf life, preservation conditions, inspection qualification information, etc. Puffer fish processing products should use a uniform product inspection certificate.
The operation of farmed live puffer fish and whole unprocessed puffer fish is prohibited;
Food business units should earnestly perform the main responsibility of food safety, and the sales and processing of pufferfish products must be processed and inspected by qualified agricultural product processing enterprises in accordance with relevant standards, and must inspect and retain product inspection certificates and related tickets. Therefore, the legally farmed and edible puffer fish that can be purchased on the market are not live fish, but slaughtered fish skins or fish meat products, and all the puffer fish in circulation have traceable QR codes on the outer packaging.
Consumers must remember not to buy, do not catch and eat wild puffer fish, do not buy and do not eat whole puffer fish processed by agricultural product processing enterprises that have not been approved by the state. The processing and production of live puffer fish and wild puffer fish by catering service units is an illegal act and will be punished by law.
Remind consumers
Prohibit the consumption of wild animals under national key protection and other terrestrial wild animals, including artificially bred and artificially raised terrestrial wild animals, as well as other wild animals prohibited from being consumed by relevant laws;
Prohibition of the consumption of wild animals in the name of livestock and poultry;
It is forbidden to eat "Wild Fish of the Yangtze River", "White Fish of the Yangtze River", "Catfish of the Yangtze River" and other fish caughts prohibited from being caught in the Yangtze River, so as to jointly protect the Mother River of the Yangtze River.
Special tips
Be mindful of food poisoning characterization
Nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea occur
When fever and other uncomfortable symptoms
Consumption of suspicious foods should be stopped immediately
Seek medical attention as soon as possible and keep suspicious foods
If it is found that the food business is illegal and illegal
Please call the complaint reporting telephone number in time
“12345”、“12315”
Transferred from: Guangdong market supervision
Source: Southern News Network