In the afternoon of November 21, 2012, the State Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection (AQSIQ) notified the Hunan Provincial Commodity Quality Supervision and Inspection Institute of the test results of a 50-degree sample of alcoholic beverages, with the highest detected value of DBP (phthalate esters, commonly known as plasticizers) at 1.04mg/kg. At 23:00pm the same evening, the official microblogging website of alcoholic beverages released a statement, saying that it "sincerely apologizes for the confusion and misunderstanding caused by the so-called 'plasticizer' overload incident". The official microblogging statement said, "I sincerely apologize for the confusion and misunderstanding caused by the 'plasticizer' exceeding the standard", but the statement still insisted that there is no so-called "exceeding the standard", and that consumers can rest assured that they can use the product.
Fan Zhen, deputy general manager of Ghost Liquor, described his reaction to learning about the incident as confused, saying that the test was authoritative enough, and that even the test was not about Ghost Liquor, which was a question mark for the company.
Fan Zhen: We are also in contact with them to clarify the situation, and now we are also confused. This report he provided the test basis of this organization, he is not our country's authoritative inspection agency, the inspection agency to provide the inspection report, we have taken a photo, the inspection report only write white wine No. 1, No. 2, there are a number of numbers, which does not indicate that it is alcoholic liquor inspection report, we are not good enough to certify that it must be a sample of alcoholic liquor products.
By the impact of this matter, liquor ghost liquor November 19, 2012 onwards suspension, the company's securities department staff said, the enterprise is self-checking the relevant processes.
Securities staff: It is expected that this report will certainly have a greater impact on the entire stock, in order to avoid abnormal trading and so on, damage to the interests of investors, we applied for a suspension of trading, production and packaging are in the self-check of their own entire process, the quality inspection department also took our samples to carry out the test.
November 21, 2012, 23:58, liquor liquor in the Sina official authentication microblogging issued a statement, said liquor liquor Co. It also "sincerely apologizes for the confusion and misunderstanding caused by the recent incident of the so-called 'plasticizer' exceeding the standard for alcoholic beverages".
Drunkard's statement cited the AQSIQ's previous statement and emphasized that "no artificial addition of 'plasticizer' has been found" and that "there is no such thing as 'plasticizer' exceeding the standard. There is no so-called 'plasticizer'", "there is no so-called 'plasticizer' exceeding the standard" and other words. Reggae also said it was "safe to drink".
The authenticity of the statement remains to be confirmed, as the statement on the microblogging site was not stamped with the company's official seal. The National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (NCFSRA) said that according to the international common risk assessment methodology and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recommended tolerable intake of human beings, the DBP content of alcoholic beverages reported by the media is 1.08mg/kg, and according to the life expectancy of China's per capita, 1 catty per day, which will not cause harm to the health of the DBP. AQSIQ said that the quality inspection department has deployed further in-depth investigation of the national liquor production enterprises, requiring enterprises to seriously identify the reasons that may lead to the presence of phthalate esters in liquor, and urgently carry out rectification from the source, including the adjustment of process equipment, replacement of contact materials and product packaging and other measures, and to report to the regulatory authorities. Regulators adhere to strict supervision, found any illegal behavior, will be strictly investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law.
The Hunan Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision official website put up information that the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision attaches great importance to, has instructed Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Bureau of Quality Supervision to immediately carry out law enforcement inspections, etc., and resolutely investigate and deal with violations of the law strictly according to law.
And Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Quality Supervision Bureau also put up a notice on its official website saying that it has already begun to carry out investigation and verification of related issues. "I will be strictly in accordance with the standards and regulations, in line with rigorous, scientific and fair attitude, the media reflected the relevant products for inspection and testing, according to quality regulations to accurately deal with product quality issues, and the results will be notified in accordance with the protocol."
Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision said that daily supervision and sampling are in accordance with the national standards for alcohol products, and there is no testing requirement for plasticizer items in the standards. But Zhu Yi, an associate professor at China Agricultural University's School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, has said that the Ministry of Health has clear regulations on the amount of plasticizers that can migrate into food, which means that the alcohol industry can only draw on this standard, and even if it develops its own standards, it can't overstep the Ministry of Health's regulations, which can only be more stringent than this regulation.
Fu Liang, director of the Food Research Center at Jinan University, believes that the entire process of alcohol production may come into contact with plastics, and plasticizers are dissolved in alcohol, which may be contaminated by plasticizers. In addition, some alcohol will add spices, and some spices also contain plasticizers.
Mr. Huang, head of the distillery's technical department, believes that white wine mainly goes through several stages of grain fermentation, distillation, storage and canning, during which no additives are added, so the possibility of contamination by plasticizers is relatively small. He believes that if plasticizers are to be added within the liquor, the purpose may be to increase the taste and aroma. At the same time, he said, ordinary factories do not have the ability to detect plasticizers, the national standard is not mandatory for this project.
Chen Yongquan, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Food Additives Professional Committee, emphasized the need to treat the results of the survey with caution because, according to food safety management regulations, samples must be taken by a third-party agency for testing, and whether the sampling is scientific will also affect the results, "Sampling has its own science, for example, the same box of products should be dispersed to take samples, and can not rely on the same.
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