Author: Mu Tong
Remember farine, the popular French bakery in Shanghai in 2016?
Franck bistro, le petite franck, farine, grains, wiyf, rachel's a number of well-known Internet celebrity stores of the year.
Back then, if you wanted to eat some French dessert or authentic French bread in Shanghai, you would definitely run to "Farine" on Wukang Road.
Although the price is small, but the queue for more than half an hour, sitting by the window, ordering a mocha, and then eating a lemon passion fruit tart, a slow and leisurely afternoon is gone.
I didn't expect it to be long before "Farine" was gone.
In March 2017, farine's baker reported farine on Weibo, saying that the store had been using a large number of expired moldy flours for a long time and that the hygiene conditions were poor.
But a single Weibo report wasn't enough, and the next night he posted 3 videos of the store's kitchen on Weibo.
He also wrote: "I reported this to the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration on March 20, 2017... For some reason, farine is still operating normally. "
This weibo received more than 1 million likes and retweets in a short period of time, which attracted the attention of relevant departments.
Three days later, farine was shut down urgently.
Nearly 2,000 bags of expired flour were found in the store.
Later, seven employees in the store, including the French pastry chef Laurent fortin, were arrested by the police and criminally enforced.
Among them, Laurent Fortin and three other Chinese employees were indicted by prosecutors in Shanghai's Minhang district on suspicion of "using expired flour in food production" and detained for more than five months.
During this period, Fortin's family demanded that the Chinese side immediately release him, and also wrote a petition to Macron and the French foreign minister, hoping that the French government would rescue Fortin from prison.
However, the boss behind the scenes, the owner of "Farine", and frank pecol, who is also a Frenchman, fled abroad to avoid Chinese censorship after the accident.
Two years later, on February 22, 2019, the Shanghai No. 3 Intermediate People's Court rendered a fair judgment on the units and personnel involved in the case.
Faxiang and Faxin were fined 1.8 million yuan and 800,000 yuan respectively for the crime of producing and selling counterfeit and shoddy products, and the 8 Chinese competent and directly responsible personnel defendants were all subject to criminal punishment to varying degrees.
For the boss, the Frenchman Frank will do another case.
The whistleblower, the baker "1987 Jin Bao" after being repeatedly slandered, received a reward of 120,000 yuan for reporting.
He said he didn't regret what he had done, "Justice may be late, but it will never be absent." But he has now given up on the ideal of opening a bakery.
Is French food really as unsafe as farine?
Of course not!
The hygiene standards of the French restaurant industry are notoriously strict, arguably the strictest in the European Union.
Once a mistake is discovered, it can range from high fines to outright shutting down.
I don't know if you remember last year's variety show "Chinese Restaurant Season 2".
A group of celebrities opened a Chinese restaurant in Colmar, France.
Friends who have seen it must have a fresh memory of checking some series of French restaurant standards and training before opening the restaurant.
Shu Qi received training in the opening of local restaurants, "garbage sorting, freezing should be between 4-5 degrees Celsius, gloves should be changed once every time different dishes are cut, a certain layer of the refrigerator can only be fixed to put one type of thing can not be skewered, to use professional disinfectant and workbench ..."
Roughly summarized, basically:
1. The purchased ingredients should be fresh
2, storage requirements: things in the refrigerator can not be mixed, if the first layer of meat can only put meat, can not put meat today tomorrow put vegetables; temperature also has requirements.
3, the processing of ingredients has requirements: to use special ingredients to deal with the workbench (stainless steel table), and the ingredients can only be processed on the workbench; cut different dishes to change different gloves.
4. Kitchen waste should also be classified.
I heard that during the opening of "Chinese Restaurant", Wang Junkai forgot to wear gloves because he was too busy making boiled meat slices, and this scene was directly fined 450 euros, which is equivalent to about 3500 yuan, because this scene was seen by the French health bureau.
In fact, in addition to what is mentioned in the program, France has other dazzling food hygiene standards.
For example, to apply for a liquor license, the restaurant licensee must be trained by a designated agency.
To comply with safety regulations, such as cooking utensils and heating equipment in restaurants, lighting and circuits, smoke extraction, etc., they must comply with the standards.
In terms of hygiene, the temperature of the food must be observed, equipped with sufficient facilities to hang clothes, handwashing equipment should be connected to hot and cold water, and restaurants should be equipped with handwashing and drying facilities.
Toilets should have flushing equipment, and the handwashing equipment should not be directly connected to the place where food is prepared.
If there is an open-air seat, whether it is closed or open, it must be applied for in advance and the relevant taxes and fees are paid every year.
Under such strict food hygiene standards, it is absolutely possible to eat in France with great peace of mind;
I hope that in the future, I will have the opportunity to eat authentic and more reliable French pastries in China.
ref：
https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2019_02_23_491196.shtml
https://www.toutiaoabc.com/index.php?app=news&act=view&nid=673306
https://bowenpress.com/news/bowen_182534.html
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