A few days ago, the Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau conducted a special sampling inspection of popular drinks such as "Thai tea", and in 20 batches of products in 20 catering units, 15 batches of samples were added beyond the range of food additives sunset yellow, and the merchants involved have been investigated.
The popularity of some products is really inexplicable. "Forgive the green", "hand scumbag scumbag" lemon tea... Drinks such as green-based drinks explode almost overnight, simply because green makes people feel refreshed in the summer? For the merchants involved, the sampling results and investigation of the Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Bureau have cooled down some strange drinks with evil fire.
20 batches of sampling, 15 batches of "winning", 75% of the violation rate is shocking! Merchants who have added food additives in violation of the scope and their products have been investigated, which is also calling for basic consumer rationality. For some products that are so-called "green to make you panic", less blind pursuit, more vigilance and self-awareness, may be more of a self-protection.
Although this sampling inspection is only a local law enforcement act of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, due to the possible chain operation of some popular drinks and the national influence of topic products, consumer vigilance should probably not be limited to one city and one place. A little search is not difficult to find that this time the "forgive green", "hand scum male scum" lemon tea and many other keywords involved in the case, there are many posts on social platforms across the country to explore the store and promote.
It is worth noting that the sunset yellow ingredient was detected in many tea drinks this time, not exceeding the standard, but the addition of the merchant itself has been illegal. In the "National Standard for Food Safety and Standards for the Use of Food Additives", sunset yellow, amaranth red, and carmine are explicitly not allowed to be added to tea drinks.
In order to have a stronger stimulation of consumers' senses, they do not hesitate to add ingredients that are not allowed to be added by the national standards, and the professional ethics and product credit of the 15 tea drinking units involved in this case have undoubtedly been greatly reduced. Although it is still in the stage of case filing and investigation, there are still some legal procedures to be followed for the law enforcement of the merchants involved in the case, but for the products and merchants who have passed the preliminary sampling inspection, it is also a matter of course to have a detailed publicity, even if it is only for the purpose of "lightning protection" for consumers, not to mention the legal compliance quality of the 25% of the qualified merchants who have been sampled.
Then again, merchants often like to make a bronze medal to hang in the store, so is it necessary to urge it to have a minimum publicity? This is a kind of introspection for merchants, and it is more of a frank and respectful for consumers.
Just a few days ago, a hospital in Shenzhen truthfully hung up the bad reviews of various patients on the official micro, sincerely accepting criticism, such a reverse operation is not necessarily a negative impact. The results of the administrative punishment of the popular product "Zhong Xuegao" a few years ago were recently dug up, whether from the perspective of protecting consumers' right to know, or from the perspective of maintaining the normal order of the market, timely publicizing the investigation and punishment of merchants and products is obviously more in line with the social public interest.
According to the requirements of the Food Safety Law, the food safety supervision and management departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall conduct "regular or irregular sampling inspections" of food, and publish the inspection results in accordance with relevant regulations, and shall not be exempted from inspection. The Shenzhen market supervision department took the initiative to enforce the law this time, objectively reminding more consumers to have multiple eyes, and also looking forward to other functional departments to come up with "homework on the same topic" as soon as possible to better regulate market behavior and protect consumer rights and interests.