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Huaxia Jingwei Comprehensive Report] The New Year is approaching, and the meat market is in urgent demand, but there is a lot of trouble about the sugar relief dolphin plum meat containing clenbuterol cibuterol cimbuterol, veterinary experts said that the toxicity is nearly 1,000 times higher than ractopamine, and it is banned internationally, but it was found in Taiwanese pork.
According to reports, Taichung City food safety management personnel went to the Taichung Welfare Station under the Welfare Management Office of the Taiwan Authorities' Defense Department on January 15 to sample and inspect the safe pork and plum blossom slices produced by Taiwan Sugar. The test results were announced on February 2 and found to contain clenbuterol "sibuterol", which is prohibited in Taiwan's food safety regulations. The batch of meat was packaged and produced on December 11, 2023, with an expiration date of June 10, 2024, with a total of 2,730 packets of 819kg, and all of them were sold.
Removed from the shelves in many places
On the evening of February 2, the Kaohsiung Municipal Health Department seized 20 packs of goods with the same batch number in 16 Quanlian supermarkets under its jurisdiction and urgently removed them from the shelves.
Tainan City also requires the industry to remove related products from the shelves.
Taipei City Health Bureau confirmed that there are a total of 5 downstream in Taipei City, and there is no product with the same batch number on the shelf, Taipei Mayor Jiang Wanan pointed out today that in order to ensure food safety, the Municipal Health Bureau has been asked to preventively remove the same item plum blossom pork products from the shelves, and only after the inspection results are qualified can they be put on the shelves. The Taipei Municipal Health Bureau explained that it has contacted 5 downstream places to remove the same meat from the shelves, and there is no sale on the shelves of Quanlian Center, Beinong and Honey Neighborhood Xinglong stores.
In addition to the immediate start of the inspection yesterday according to the supply flow of manufacturers, the Hsinchu County Health Bureau continued to conduct preventive off-the-shelf inspections on the 4th, with a total of 114 products in 11 stores preventively removed from the shelves.
On the 3rd, the Kinmen County Health Bureau urgently dispatched personnel to inspect the three food vendors in the county, such as Quanlian stores, Carrefour and Juntong stores, and the Health Bureau said that after investigation, none of the products with the same batch number were purchased or sold, and the problematic meat did not flow into Kinmen, so please rest assured.
Taiwan Sugar responded
According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network", Taiwan Sugar said on the 5th that it independently sent the same batch of plum blossom meat to SGS Taipei Laboratory for testing on the 3rd, and according to the laboratory's test report on February 4, 21 B receptors such as sibuterol are still undetected; At present, in addition to the "animal husbandry association" test, there is no detection in the private SGS laboratory.
Taiwan Sugar solemnly stated that Taiwan Sugar has never imported pork from abroad; As for the slaughtering and slitting operations of the slaughterhouses concerned, on-site inspections by the relevant departments found that there were no abnormalities and cross-contamination. The beta receptor hormone that caused controversy this time is also not the clenbuterol used in farming.
Zhang Jiajun, a representative of the Kuomintang public opinion, questioned the inspection mechanism of the Taiwan authorities, called on the agricultural departments and health and welfare departments in the Taiwan region to come forward to make it clear, and stressed that the Taiwan authorities and local governments must strengthen the sampling of pork products on the market in order to show public trust.
In response to Taiwan's health and welfare department's remarks yesterday that "the detection value of Taichung City is the limit of the machine" and "sibutro is rare", and asked the reporter to ask "the reason why the Taichung City Government is in a hurry to announce it", Yang Qiongying, deputy mayor of Qiantaizhong City and representative of the Kuomintang public opinion, criticized, as if actively helping the people to check and investigate and publish information, this kind of thing seems to have done something wrong in the eyes of the health and welfare department? Ask Chen Jianren's team, should we be strict or lenient in food safety incidents?
Liao Weixiang, a public opinion representative of the Kuomintang, said that the health and welfare department said that the quantitative limit LO was 0001ppm, but this time the detection is 0002ppm, which obviously violates the standard, not to mention that the third article of the "Animal Drug Residue Standard" stipulates that "shall not be detected", that is, even 0001ppm can't have it, and Wang Bisheng, deputy director of the health and welfare department, actually said 0The test value of 002ppm is very low, and it even requires the Taichung City Government to carefully investigate and wait for 15 days before it is announced. Liao Weixiang asked, if it was announced after 15 days, the same batch of goods would have been eaten a long time ago, so what is the difference between announcing and not announcing?
Kuomintang public opinion representative Xu Yuzhen said that the Tsai authorities not only did not praise Taichung City's active work, but also intimidated Mayor Lu Xiuyan's team. A thorn in one's flesh? Don't get rid of it and then be happy? "The administration doesn't want to lay eggs, do a bunch of! ”
The credibility of the authorities has collapsed
According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network", Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the Taiwan authorities, listed the "five rings of food safety" as an important political opinion when she took office, but in recent years, from the "Lai pig" issue, the controversy over the import of eggs from Brazil, to the outbreak of clenbuterol in Taiwanese sugar pork, all of them have put a big question mark on the food safety control of the Taiwan authorities in the society on the island. As the year approaches, the demand for meat increases, and the pork products of public institutions that boast strict inspections at all levels have problems, and the credibility of the Cai authorities has collapsed.
Tsai Ing-wen proposed that the "five rings of food safety" include five aspects: source control, rebuilding production management, strengthening inspection, increasing the responsibility of black-hearted manufacturers, and national supervision of food safety. This time, Taiwan Sugar Safe Dolphin is out of the bag, at least it is certain that there is a big problem with the source control, and how much has the policy been implemented since Tsai Ing-wen came to power for more than 7 years?
According to the profile of Taiwan Sugar, the pigs of Anxin Dolphin are only cultivated, raised, slaughtered, and cut by Taiwan Sugar itself, and have a CAS certified processing plant, and then through the CAS certified operating environment and process, the source of feed, pigs and slaughtering processes have been checked. The introduction also emphasizes that the Anxin Dolphin brand vows to fulfill its social responsibility as a global citizen on the basis of peace of mind, which now looks particularly ironic.
Since it is clarified that pork ** is not imported, but self-produced, the problem is more serious, everyone knows that clenbuterol is banned on the island, so in which link is it mixed? Taiwan Sugar wanted to blame the problem on the slaughterhouse for pollution, but it was impossible to be slapped in the face by the industry immediately, and it was also pointed out that it was a problem in the breeding process.
Taiwan's food concept is constantly improving, consumers pay attention to buying with peace of mind and eating healthy, and the Tsai authorities cater to the change of consumption habits, launching a variety of resumes and certifications, when the more product certifications, the higher the price, the public also dare to pay. However, if it is found that these certifications are just false stories, or even that the certification seal is no longer tracked after it is issued, it will be a fatal disaster for the entire market.
The lack of concrete policy measures and the emergence of food safety issues in the Tsai administration's claim to have strengthened the regulatory system has raised questions about whether the Tsai authorities really care about food safety or are simply acting in response to societal pressure. For the strengthening of the inspection and sampling system, we should not only do superficial efforts, and relevant units should be more deeply involved in every link of food production and processing, so as to have the opportunity to treat the symptoms and root causes.