Knowing how bacon is made will stop worrying about food safety

Majoring in food science, I had the privilege of working for a meat food processing company for a year after graduating from university. In life, we often hear some remarks about food safety, such as "*** food has additives to eat is not good for the body", "*** ham is full of starch without a little meat", "*** food is made of corner meat spliced with unhealthy nutrition", these remarks make many people who do not understand food believe that it is true, for a while full of doubts about industrial food, but also sensitive to the word "food additives" to the extreme. So I'll take you through what I saw in food processing plants.

Take bacon slices as an example: the pork needed to produce bacon is all quarantined pork, and there will be a special testing agency to test the meat, and the pork is also transported from the slaughterhouse to the meat processing plant using a cold chain. Pork that has passed the inspection should be selected and cut (cut off excess fat) to select a good quality of the whole piece of spine meat for the next injection operation, the first with the injection (spices, preservatives, pigments, salts mixed with water after colloidal grinding to obtain the liquid), the spices here can be understood as the ginger, star anise and other spices we usually add when cooking powder, pigments are mostly red yeast red, carmine red and other natural, preservatives are also within the scope of national standards (additives in the range are harmless to the human body, Any excessive addition can not be concealed from the food and drug administration, please believe that the state attaches great importance to people's food safety). The meat that reaches the injection rate will be rolled and kneaded with a rolling machine at a low temperature for 12-36 hours, so that the meat can be completely marinated into the flavor, and the meat out of the machine will be placed in a square mold and then put in the cooking room to be steamed to achieve the purpose of sterilization, maturation, molding, and then the worker will pull the mold out of the cooking room to cool down to 25 ° C after demoulding, and the de-molded meat will be neatly placed on the shelf to cool in the cooling chamber (while opening the ozone generator sterilization) The cooled meat will be placed on the freezer to freeze, Finally store it in the -18 ° C cold storage, when it is necessary to go out of the warehouse, it will be cut into pieces with a cutting machine in the packaging room, and then the packaging machine will be packaged, the packaged bacon will be sent into the sterilization room for secondary sterilization, cooled and then put into the low temperature of the semi-finished product inventory, after the order is pulled into the stock room as needed, the packaged bacon will be wrapped in turn through the metal detector, while the quality inspector will also test whether the packaging has leaks, qualified products will be marked with the production date of the inkjet printer, and finally packed and shipped as needed, and the cold chain is transported to the major supermarkets. Store in a low-temperature preservation cabinet, be selected by the customer and take it home and put it in the refrigerator for consumption.

At the same time, I described the factory situation I saw: the factory production staff do nucleic acid testing once a week, hold a health certificate, enter the workshop personnel need to wear overalls, wear masks, work clothes every day after work have someone to clean and dry, masks one person two a day, put on the overalls after the whole person is wrapped up without worrying about health problems, the factory workshop work state for a long time and low temperature, every day someone will check the health and disinfection.

The people take food as the sky, and food takes safety as the first. The food industry is an ethical industry. I hope that everyone can rest assured of food safety, but also pay attention to food safety, learn to identify fake and shoddy food, do not buy and do not eat three no food, actively report black factories (food factories without production qualifications), and jointly build a safe and harmonious society.