March 15, 2012 14:46 Source: Peninsula Net - City Journal Many people have seen this advertisement: Twist, lick, take a dip, Oreo.
For many children, "Oreo" is a delicious brand-name food.
Are Oreos really that good? Will it also trick children like some foods? In order to let the children understand clearly, a reporter from the City Economic Times decided to visit on the spot to see if the "Oreo" could withstand the "twisting" and "dipping".
Oreo’s “parental home”-Kraft Foods Company is located in Suzhou Industrial Park.
This factory has a production workshop of nearly 30,000 square meters. Its main products include Oreo, Quduoduo, Taiping Soda, Lezhidanone biscuit series, Qurelax wafer biscuit series and other products.
Recently, a reporter successfully applied for a job as a workshop worker here and used undercover to uncover the truth about Oreo...
Recruitment
The agency said that "you can get in if you pay enough," and the basic salary is 1,140.
On February 22, the reporter came to an open-air talent exchange venue that was spontaneously formed in Suzhou Industrial Park. It was raining heavily that day in Suzhou. Light rain.
There are no less than ten vans parked in this talent exchange place, all of which are private vans used by employment agencies to transport applicants to various factories. Next to them are some workers waiting to be sent to the factory.
"Are you going to Nabisco (a wholly-owned food company of Kraft Foods)?" A person named Mr. Gong came to the reporter and asked.
After Mr. Gong finished shouting, there were about 20 or 30 workers gathered next to Mr. Gong. These workers all wanted to work at Kraft Foods.
"Can we go in?" a young man asked Mr. Gong.
"Give me the money now, and I will guarantee your entry 100%." ??Mr. Gong promised.
At this time, the young man took out 100 yuan from his pocket and handed it to Mr. Gong. Then Mr. Gong wrote the word "Excellent" in the talent source column on a form full of names. .
"I'll take you to Nabisco for an interview first." A staff member said.
After a while, several vans came to the scene and took everyone to No. 51 Baiyu Road. When they got off the bus, they saw "Kraft Foods (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." written here.
At this time, a large number of workers were already gathered at the entrance of Kraft Foods, ready to go in.
"You entered the factory as labor outsourcing workers. The basic salary is 1,140 yuan per month and you work 12 hours a day.
But 4 of them are considered overtime, and some For overtime pay, the company will provide you with free meals at noon every day, and you won’t need to eat anything at night. However, if you work for ten and a half hours every day, each person will receive a meal allowance of 5 yuan.
If you think it’s okay, that’s fine. Stay and go for a physical examination tomorrow and then come over for training," the female salesperson said expressionlessly.
"The wages are too low, but there's nothing we can do about it. Their requirements are relatively low and other factories can't get in. Let's try it first." A man in his 30s sitting next to the reporter asked his friend whispered.
"Do you accept people over 45 years old?" A middle-aged man with gray hair asked the female salesperson.
"As long as you can do the job, age doesn't matter." The female salesperson replied.
Hygiene doubts
Just go through the motions of washing hands and disinfecting without wearing masks and gloves
Go through the dressing room and go down to the first floor, which is the passage you must pass to enter the operation workshop—— Kraft Foods restrooms.
"Employees must go through hand washing and disinfection before entering the factory. It requires six steps. First wash hands with hot water, then apply hand sanitizer, then rinse the hand sanitizer with hot water, and then dry their hands. , then apply disinfectant on the hands, and finally dry them before entering the factory to work. "The salesman said this when the workers were participating in GMP (good operating and processing practices) training.
However, when the reporter entered the factory, he found that few people actually completed the hand-washing and disinfection procedures. They simplified the procedure in half: wash hands with hand sanitizer, dry them directly, apply disinfectant, and then go directly to the factory to work.
The reporter asked an old worker about this, and the worker smiled and said: "You are new here! Just wash it once."
The reporter noticed that in the wash and disinfection room Here, the company specially installed two cameras to monitor whether workers wash their hands.
According to the training personnel, these two cameras can see the workers washing their hands. "Whoever fails to wash their hands will be seen by the monitoring personnel and you will be fined!" During employee training, they Put it this way.
There is another question that puzzles the reporter. The employees working in the front section of the production line do not wear masks or gloves and directly put the biscuits into the packaging boxes with their bare hands.
The employees also joked and joked from time to time.
Occasionally there would be coughing sounds among the people putting biscuits into packaging bags.
On an assembly line that produces and packages Oreo chocolate sandwich biscuits, the reporter saw a female worker wiping the machine with a rag and then wiping her hands with it.
The rag was originally white, but after wiping the machine, it was covered with oil and almost turned black.
Then, without washing her hands, she put the stacked, unpackaged sandwich biscuits into the concave slot of the packaging machine with her bare hands.
On another line not far from the production and packaging line, a female worker placing chocolate sandwich cookies suddenly sneezed.
After that, she rubbed her nose with her hands, and then went to place the cookies again.
An employee stepped on his work clothes on the ground to change clothes
In the locker room, a sign stood sideways on the ground: "Work clothes must be washed once a day!" The reporter saw the actual situation However, employees can wash themselves if they want to.
Some employees’ white work clothes are almost turning into black.
After taking a shower, some employees even took out their work clothes and spread them on the ground, then stepped on the work clothes with wet feet to change clothes, and then picked up the work clothes on the ground. He stuffed it randomly into the locker with his work shoes and wore it next time.
Due to poor air circulation, the smell in the locker room is pungent. Although the lockers have two layers, most of the employees' work shoes, socks and work clothes are not placed separately, but are placed together haphazardly.
The reporter learned that some large domestic food production plants stipulate that employees are not allowed to wear work clothes to go to the toilet. If they want to go to the toilet, they must take off their work clothes; for workers in different production links, disinfection and hygiene requirements It is also different. For example, packers cannot enter or exit production areas that have direct contact with food at will. If they want to enter, they must implement high-level hygiene requirements.
When the reporter received training at Kraft Foods, he did not hear anything about whether employees could wear work clothes to the toilet.
The reporter saw in the factory that even employees in front-line production positions wore work clothes to go to the toilet.
The management is chaotic and important workshops can be entered casually
An old employee told reporters: "This work is very tiring. People often quit suddenly and there are many new employees." Because Workers are highly mobile, new faces appear from time to time, and many workers do not know each other.
This reporter had a deep understanding of this on the first day he entered the factory.
The first thing every day at work is for the squad leader to assign positions. The most common sentence reporters hear is: "You take him over there, and you take this little girl to pack." Even for The monitor couldn't even name the employees who had been at the factory for more than a week.
An employee told the reporter, "I have been here for more than a week, and I don't know the monitor."
The reporter once looked for the exit of the production workshop with two workers. By chance, we entered an important workshop where raw and auxiliary materials are stored. Non-hydrogenated shortening and other raw and auxiliary materials were piled here. A worker was counting the raw materials, but he did not stop our sudden intrusion.
When the reporter entered the ingredient room, bags of original chocolate granules, refined salt and other raw materials were placed on one side of the aisle, and the employees who were working did not stop them.
In production areas that are in direct contact with exposed food, porters and packers can enter and exit freely. There is no separation between production areas that require high cleanliness and non-clean areas, and there are no restrictions on personnel between areas. of cross-flow.
The reporter saw in the production workshop that some workers responsible for handling could freely shuttle between *** food production lines without being blocked, and did not implement higher cleaning standards.
Due to the high turnover of employees, it is not surprising that strange faces appear in the factory. Strange employees appear randomly walking around in important raw material storage rooms or ingredient rooms, and other employees will not come forward to ask or inquire. Prevent.