Food safety incidents, in both the narrow and broad sense. The narrow sense refers to food safety incidents, meaning food poisoning, foodborne illness, food contamination and other accidents originating from food, which are or may be harmful to human health; the broad sense refers to a variety of news events related to food safety.
1. "Dyed Steamed Buns"
In early April 2011, CCTV reported that some supermarkets in Shanghai's Pudong district dyed steamed buns with randomly altered production dates, and that consuming too many of them would cause harm to the human body. Later, similar stained buns were found in Wenzhou and other places.
2. "Beef paste"
Beef paste has the natural flavor of beef, easily soluble in water, aqueous solution was light yellow. Some delis and noodle stores in the market use beef paste to turn pork into beef for profit, and in April 2011 there were reports of "beef paste" being sold in Nanjing.
3. "Poisoned Ginger"
The use of toxic chemical sulfur to smoke ginger makes the ginger, which is not beautiful enough under normal circumstances, yellow and tender.
April 15, 2011, Yichang City, Hubei Province, seized two dens of "poisoned ginger" fumigated with sulfur, and the dens were found to be "poisoned ginger" with sulfur. On April 15, 2011, Yichang City, Hubei Province, seized two dens using sulfur fumigation of "poisonous ginger", and nearly 1,000 kilograms of "poisonous ginger" were seized at the scene.
4. "Leptin"
Leptin is a class of animal drugs, such as ractopamine (Ractopamine) and clenbuterol (Clenbuterol). Adding leptin to the feed can increase the amount of lean meat in the animal. In March of this year, the media reported that pig farms in Mengzhou City, Henan Province, used the banned animal drug "leptin" to raise pigs, and the toxic pork flowed into Jiyuan Shuanghui Food Co.