Comment Jun said
To control the chaos of bird's nest, we must start from industry access and quality standards.
Simba's live broadcast of the "bird's nest" with goods was counterfeited by Wang Hai, and the incident is escalating step by step, and even caused the society to question the chaos of the entire bird's nest industry. At present, the Guangzhou Baiyun District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau has filed an investigation into Simba Company.
On November 19, Wang Hailiang, a professional counterfeiter, released a test report, saying that a certain bird's nest brought by Simba's team was "sugar water", and the test report showed that its sucrose content was as high as 4.8%. Simba also posted a test report saying: There is a bird's nest component here - sialic acid, not "sugar water". Wang Hai retorted that the test report showed that there was no protein and amino acids in the bird's nest at all, which was not bird's nest, and even said that this bird's nest was originally a "flavored drink". Careful netizens also found that the enterprise production standard implemented by this bird's nest was impressively written: Sialic acid can be added manually.
Up to 4.8% sucrose, no protein, sialic acid can be artificially added ... In an instant, the bird's nest on hand is not fragrant, and it exudes the cheap feeling of black tea drinks.
At present, The Simba team has promised to refund the compensation, and the current dispute is: whether to refund 1 compensation 10 according to the Food Safety Law, or 1 compensation 3 according to the Consumption Law?
However, the whole incident has been dug deeper and is shaking the credibility of bird's nest in the market. What is the difference between bird's nest and flavored drinks? Sialic acid, which is a natural bird's nest detection marker, if it can be added manually, then bird's nest has not become an "IQ tax"?
According to the general theory, bird's nest is a nest built by mixing saliva and down feathers of swiftlets and swallows of the same genus, which contains a variety of nutrients, including sialic acid, epidermal growth factor and colony stimulating factor, which is considered to be a traditional tonic and has a very large market share.
Regardless of the edible value of bird's nest itself, it is an indisputable fact that bird's nest products on the market are mixed, such as canned bird's nest, freeze-dried bird's nest, instant bird's nest, fresh stewed bird's nest, and food-brewed bird's nest... The first name is taller than the other, and the word "bird's nest" is added to the trade name to be worth a hundred times. According to reports, in terms of a 240ml bird's nest, its price is 6.8 yuan / can, nominally containing 10mg of bird's nest (that is, one percent of 1 gram), and according to the price of 11500 yuan per kilogram of imported bird's nest on the market, the price is less than 20 yuan per gram, so the bird's nest here is only worth 2 dimes!
Behind the huge profits and disorderly competition is that China currently has no national standard for bird's nest, which leads to a mixed bag of the entire industry. As a result, the entire industry has formed a situation of "bad money expelling good money". Moreover, the threshold of the bird's nest industry is also very low, with as many as 11,000 bird's nest-related enterprises in China, but 74% of the enterprises in the industry have a registered capital of less than 1 million yuan.
Fortunately, at present, the first draft of the national standard for bird's nest has been drafted by the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, and the relevant national standard has entered the stage of soliciting opinions, and I believe that the rules will soon be established.
This time, Simba's bird's nest door is only the tip of the iceberg that has exposed the problem, and the control of bird's nest chaos must start from industry access and quality standards. If you allow the artificial addition of sialic acid, added to the micro-bird's nest products can be hung up on the name of bird's nest, it will ruin the credibility of the entire industry.
※ Editor| Shen Bin
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