Chapter 635: The Great Vortex

In fact, Yang Xing wanted to take this opportunity to use Xiyangyang Catering Company to expose his shortcomings to reveal the dark side of the food industry. In addition to cooperating with his early warnings, he was also chilling at the shocking food problems such as "melamine", "Sudan Red", and "leather milk" in his previous lives.

The repeated outbreaks of major food safety issues not only damaged the international image of China's exported food, but also made eating domestic products a "big adventure" for the Chinese people, making many parents rather purchase foreign milk powder at high prices than let their children eat domestic dairy products.

Even the international community directly links Chinese food to the impression of "toxicity". In the past two years, major countries that are close to South Korea and Japan have frequently attacked and created trade frictions. As a result, they have introduced a large number of low-priced agricultural products in China, while also criticizing China's agricultural products for their poor quality, which has affected their domestic agricultural products sales.

In the fundamental sense, this kind of thing is because the backbone of the domestic food industry is not hard, and a few are jealous of money and treat consumers as "chemical laboratory" scum for profit. A piece of mouse shit ruins a pot of soup, which brings shame to the entire industry.

Although there are many employees in the domestic food industry, up to more than 1 million, there are few large-scale enterprises, most of which are family businesses with decentralized operations and extremely low entry thresholds, among which black nests of counterfeiting and counterfeiting are widely present. Regulatory authorities often turn a blind eye to this, the punishment is relatively weak, and there are often fish that miss the net. Many times, many people find that the cost of counterfeiting is not high. Even if they are found to pay a fine, they can still make a comeback with a signboard. The unfortunate one is still the consumers.

In addition, domestic food supervision is a typical example. Many times, the domestic food production enterprises with geographically scattered and small scale require multiple departments to cooperate at the same time. The national food inspection can occasionally be effective, but without long-term dynamic persistence, it is impossible to catch up. Therefore, food safety issues often rekindle and new problems arise every once in a while. This is not only in the food industry. At present, there are similar problems in the domestic mining, transportation, fishing and other industries. This involves the construction of the national system and is a long-term problem.

But food safety involves the most basic needs of the people in the country for "food, clothing, housing and transportation". A country that cannot even guarantee the safety of their own citizens' food is really "big but not strong". For Yang Xing, who has always wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to rebirth to revitalize China, this is absolutely unbearable, so he would rather suffer losses from his own family and expose the dark side of the food industry first and warn the Chinese people that it is better than being scared by the constant emergence of "toxic" foods that everyone should carry chemical reagents with them even when buying vegetables and fruits. It is good to check the pesticide value of vegetables and fruits at any time.

The summer of 2002 was destined to be a day that made the food industry sad. The cause of the incident started when the leader of the domestic food industry, Xiyangyang Catering Group, was leaked a self-inspection report. It turned out that Xiyangyang Group was negotiating the acquisition with an old British biscuit manufacturer, a company listed in London. According to regulations, Xiyangyang Group must submit early warning information on major business events between the two parties. This report was originally a self-inspection in response to questions raised by British investors.

This report is provided by Xiyangyang Group's first comprehensive private food testing agency. It is said that Xiyangyang Group is preparing to enter the international market and dare not underestimate the most worrying food safety issues. It spared no expense to introduce the world's most advanced testing equipment and personnel and established the agency. This report not only inspects Xiyangyang's own products in detail, but also conducts sampling surveys on many domestic upstream ingredients that are raw materials for the product.

The result came to a sensational conclusion, that is, 80% of the random inspection products did not meet international standards, and the main reason was food materials. Some of the foods not only did not meet domestic standards, but were even suspected of using fake and toxic products!

These problematic foods involve almost all products of Xiyangyang Group - seafood, meat eggs, dairy products and edible oil. As soon as the news came out, the stocks of several listed companies under Xiyangyang Group fell sharply. He Guizhi, president of Xiyangyang Company, also made crisis public relations as soon as possible, and invited dozens of well-known domestic media to hold a press conference. At the meeting, she did not make any excuses or quibbling, and announced that she would immediately recall all problematic products and immediately investigate the issues mentioned in the report, ensuring that there would be no concealment. She also established a compensation fund to deal with possible claims. She also took the initiative to report the case to the police and hold the parties involved accountable. Even if He Guizhi herself was involved in this case, she would have to accept legal sanctions.

He Guizhi's low posture did not work at first, but she still gained a lot of criticism in China. After all, she is famous and most domestic families have passed by its products. It is reported that there are problems with the quality of food. What's wrong? Many people in the capital are unwilling to accept Yang Xing's behavior a while ago and are ready to take the opportunity to take the opportunity to add to the point.

Although Zhongxing Group is not easy to deal with, the Xiyangyang Group, which brought down Yang Xing's mother, was also considered anger. Unfortunately, the behind-the-scenes planner, Mr. Lu, clearly warned everyone that it would be better to keep his troops in motion. As a result, only a few anxious young masters jumped out, and their voices were much inferior, and their attacks on Xiyangyang were also done.

But things quickly turned around. When the Shanghai police were still worried about the various contradictory instructions issued by the superiors and did not know whether He Guizhi should be controlled, the news from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom attracted everyone's attention. It turned out that after receiving the report, the British food regulatory authorities attached great importance to it. Not only did they start an investigation, but they also sent faxes to the World Health Organization as required. The World Health Organization quickly activated the crisis warning mechanism and sent experts to investigate the matter.

In this way, the practice of covering up unfavorable news in China is obviously not working. In addition, the Internet and other new media, which the officials in charge of propaganda have never paid attention to before, launched a fresh "human flesh search" offensive, which was a big net for problematic food manufacturers and local officials involved in various places, quickly turning from a simple food detection storm into a whirlpool that stirs up the interests of all parties.

According to the survey conducted by experts from the UK and the World Health Organization, there is no big problem with the production and processing process of Xiyangyang Food. Even if there are small flaws in the middle, it is not the key to such a low pass rate in this self-examination. The main problem lies in the many ingredients used by Xiyangyang from all over the country.

For example, among many aquatic products purchased by Xiyangyang Group, "malachite green" and a large number of antibiotics that are strictly prohibited from being used internationally. The British Food Standards Bureau also specially announced news that malachite green is a green alkaline organic dye, generally used to dye silk, cotton, wool and other substances. Since 1933, it has been used as an insecticide, insecticide, and preservative in aquatic products. Later, it has been widely used to prevent and treat water mold diseases in various aquatic animals.

Since the 1990s, domestic and foreign scholars have successively discovered that malachite green and its metabolite colorless malachite green have side effects such as high toxins, high residues, high carcinogenicity, high teratogenicity, and mutations. Given the harm of malachite green, many countries have listed malachite green as a banned drug for aquaculture. Malachite green is a chemical preparation with great side effects on the human body. No fish is allowed to contain such substances. China just included malachite green in the "List of Veterinary Medicines and Its Compounds for Food Animals" in May 2002, and is prohibited from being used in all food animals.

At the same time, another chemical raw material that is as famous as it was found during the inspection. This time, not only did Xiyangyang Group get caught, but even international giants such as KFC and Heinz were also pulled down, which is the famous "Sultan Red"! Sudan Red (No. 1) is a red dye used to color solvents, oil, wax, gasoline, and luminous shoes, floors, etc. Relevant research shows that Sudan Red (No. 1) is carcinogenic, and both China and the EU prohibit it from using it for food production.

The foreign investigation team first found traces of "Sudan Red" in the foreign trade food produced by Xiyangyang Group. After investigation, the problem lies in the chili sauce used. This batch of chili sauce was actually provided by Heinz Group, an internationally renowned food company. Heinz Group did not dare to neglect it. After careful investigation, it was found that the chili powder supplier in the chili sauce was a Guangdong company.

The company also supplies foreign food companies such as KFC, and its main target is the UK. This result scared all parties. When trace amounts of Sudan Red were found in KFC roasted wings and roasted chicken leg burgers seasonings, the UK immediately announced that more than 500 foods were removed from the shelves. Several companies suspected of being contaminated by Sudan Red were forced to start recalling products on a large scale and start crisis public relations.

The news came out, and the domestic market was in an uproar. Has the food problem actually spread to multinational companies? So what brands can be believed? Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and other countries, which imported a large amount of mainland food, have also become frightened birds. Not only have they begun to investigate the quality of China's exported food, but they have also sent media to conduct in-depth reports.

Last year, South Korea and Japan fought a trade lawsuit with China for setting restrictions on China's imports of vegetables. Because China's tough attitude was threatened by increasing tariffs on imported Korean and Japanese electronic products and cars, it forced the two countries to bow their heads and relax the quarantine of imported food. Now China has self-destructed its shortcomings and has not taken the opportunity to follow up the report, exposing more amazing facts?

The democrats in Hong Kong also jumped up and down, asking the Hong Kong government to provide the best food test report in the mainland. Under pressure, the two major TV giants in Hong Kong, Wireless and Yahuang Taiwan, announced that they would join forces to send a mainland food interview team to expose the inside story of domestic food safety from the source. And the Taiwanese media, which was very unhappy with the mainland because of the issue, also enthusiastically sent media reporters who like to expose gossip to sneak into the mainland and join the melee that revealed the dark side.
Chapter completed!