Guanshengyuan, this is an old story. Generally, people over 25 years old should have an impression. In 2000, the Guanshengyuan mooncake scandal caused Guanshengyuan's reputation to plummet, and Guanshengyuan had to file for bankruptcy. At that time, politics was included in the middle school examination questions as current affairs.

Guanshengyuan Mooncake Incident

Guanshengyuan, a famous food company in Nanjing, in a factory building along the street, has an entire floor of windows covered with paper To be honest, the reporter discovered that after the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2000, the mooncakes worth millions of yuan that had not been sold out by Guanshengyuan Food Factory were successively recovered from various places and transported into a restaurant with windows covered with paper. workshop. They will all go through several processes before being refrigerated and reused. On July 2, 2001, three full months before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Guanshengyuan officially started making new mooncakes. During the production process from morning to night, the door of the cold storage was opened, and the fillings that had been stored for nearly a year were quietly put to use. On the morning of July 3, 2001, 4 boxes of lotus paste stuffing were dragged directly from the cold storage into the production workshop; on the afternoon of July 23, 2001, 20 boxes of pineapple stuffing were dragged out of the cold storage. In the next few days, reporters successively took several shots of mooncake fillings being shipped out of the warehouse and put into production. Many of these fillings have become moldy and spoiled. According to witnesses at the time, it was covered with mold. There is also pineapple filling, and you can clearly see that the green part of it is the mold that has grown. There is also an explanation label on this box of filling, indicating that their original production date was September 2000. 9th. Sometimes the moldy fillings are reheated before being reused. On July 18, 2001, a batch of barreled bean paste filling was sent to the semi-finished product workshop for secondary reheating. Finally, all these fillings are sent to the production line to be processed into crescent moon cakes. In such a workshop, mooncakes are continuously produced with a production capacity of approximately 90,000 pieces per day. Sold everywhere. Subsequently, Guanshengyuan filed for bankruptcy protection.