Industrial rosin is harmful to the human body, edible rosin is not harmful to the human body.

Industrial rosin contains lead and other heavy metals and toxic compounds, high temperature into the pores of the animal expansion, if consumed will cause harm to the human liver, kidneys, and even carcinogenic; asphalt contains a large number of benzopyrene, benzanthracene and other carcinogens, asphalt, industrial rosin plucking livestock and poultry hair, will make the toxic and harmful substances migrate to the meat of the livestock and poultry.

Industrial rosin hair removal has been explicitly banned by the state, the use of edible wax, edible rosin glycerides and other legal raw materials to remove livestock and poultry hair has gradually become the slaughtering industry **** knowledge.

Between July 2011 and July 2013, Ren Mou hired Li Mou and Hu Mou to open a goose slaughtering and processing plant and sell raw geese in an urban-rural interface in Wenzhou city. In order to reduce labor intensity, fast, convenient and clean de-feathering of geese, they secretly used liquefied industrial rosin to de-feather.

July 17, 2013, the slaughter of geese processing plant was seized by the police, the scene seized 39 slaughtered raw geese, a total of 76 kg. After identification, the liquefied industrial rosin samples extracted at the scene contained lead, chromium, cadmium, gong, arsenic and other toxic heavy metal substances. After investigation, Ren Mou processing sites using industrial rosin slaughter, sales of raw geese amount **** up to more than 450,000 yuan. Subsequently, Renmou and other three people were arrested by Wenzhou City police one after another.

The court heard that industrial rosin is harmful to humans and is expressly prohibited by the state. According to the May 4, 2013 from the implementation of the "on the handling of criminal cases of endangering food safety on the application of law a number of issues of interpretation" of the relevant provisions of the production, sales amount of 200,000 yuan or more than less than 500,000 yuan, is a serious situation. Committing the crime of producing and selling poisonous and harmful food, generally should be sentenced according to law to produce and sell more than two times the amount of fines.

Ren Mou and other three people in violation of national food management regulations, the use of toxic, harmful non-food raw materials and sales of food processing, involving more than 450,000 yuan, the circumstances are serious, their behavior has constituted the production and sale of poisonous, harmful food crime, should be severely punished. Li mou, hu mou is a hired hand, is *** with the crime of accessory, should be punished according to law, so make the above sentence.

The above content reference? People's Daily Online - on the ban on the use of asphalt, industrial rosin plucking livestock and poultry hair announcement

The above content reference? People's Daily Online - Wenzhou slaughtering businessman sentenced to 8 years in prison for using industrial rosin to remove goose feathers