Unqualified sampling of ingredients on the side of the road: detected to contain banned artificial pigment carmine Push franchise model 4 years to open 1200 stores

According to the "Notice on the Failure of 10 Batches of Food Sampling" issued by the Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau a few days ago, the spicy beef slices sold by the spicy hot shop on the side of the road in Chengdu High-tech Zone were detected to contain a banned artificial pigment - carmine.

It is reported that carmine belongs to a kind of azo pigment in synthetic colorants, which has the characteristics of bright color, stable nature and low cost. The National Standard for Food Safety and the Standard for the Use of Food Additives (gb 2760-2014) stipulates that carmine cannot be added to quick-frozen meat products. In order to reduce costs, some unscrupulous manufacturers will add carmine to the meat when using raw meat that is not fresh, so that the appearance of the product becomes more rosy and looks fresher. However, experiments have found that azo dye pigments such as carmine can cause tumors and teratomas in animals, and may also cause ADHD in children, affecting the normal growth and development of the body.

According to the notice, the unqualified spicy beef slices sold by the spicy hot shop on the side of the road (production date 2020/10/27) are nominally produced by Santai County Shangkou Fresh Food Factory.

On April 17, the roadside spicy hot official micro issued a statement saying that the unqualified beef was purchased by the franchise store in violation of the law, which had seriously violated the relevant regulations of the company and seriously infringed on the company's reputation, and would pursue the corresponding legal responsibility for the spicy hot (Longhu store) on the side of the road in Pidu District. "The company has set up a food safety supervision group to investigate and dispose of the store, close the store and close the business, all ingredients are sent to the relevant departments for quarantine, and the quarantine report will be published in the follow-up."

At the same time, the roadside promised that it would comprehensively and thoroughly investigate the food safety and health situation of all stores across the country, and once any non-compliant behavior was found in the store, it would not be tolerated and dealt with severely.

In response to the above problems, the financial reporter of China Net called the curbside, and the person in charge of the brand said that after the incident, the store involved had been suspended for rectification and paid administrative fines in accordance with the requirements of the market supervision department, and the store had standardized the company's unified purchase channels and screened the food as required. Talking about how to pursue the legal responsibility of the store involved, the person in charge said that it has not yet been decided.

"The company has required stores to purchase necessary materials from headquarters, but some franchise stores have not done as required, making it difficult for us to monitor before." The above-mentioned person in charge told reporters that due to regulatory loopholes, some franchisees have mixed the procurement of materials purchased by the headquarters with illegal procurement, resulting in food safety hazards. To this end, the curbside has upgraded the cash register system of stores across the country since March this year, comprehensively monitoring the purchase volume and turnover of stores, thereby strengthening control. "At present, 80% of the store cashier system in the country has been upgraded."

But Chinese food industry analyst Zhu Danpeng is not optimistic, Zhu Danpeng believes that the management of catering franchise stores is relatively chaotic, so he has not been in favor of this model. "Because the values and world outlook of the Chinese people have not yet been fixed, the overall operation will be very chaotic, and the headquarters will turn a blind eye, and the entire internal control system is basically in a vacuum, so the chaos on the side of the road is inevitable."

According to public information, the spicy hot on the side of the road belongs to Chengdu Roadside Catering Management Co., Ltd. According to Tianyan, the company was established in January 2017 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan, and Guo Yifan served as a legal person and shareholder of the company, with a shareholding ratio of 31%.

According to the customer service on the official website of the roadside, the brand was actually established in 2016, and then opened the brand to join in 2017, and has opened more than 1,200 stores around the world so far.

(Editor-in-Charge: Guo Shuai)