CCTV News:Recently, a video of "Banana Soaking in Unknown Liquid" was circulated, and consumers were worried that the unknown liquid was toxic, and some netizens even said it was formaldehyde. So, what is the practice of soaking bananas in the video? What exactly is "unknown liquid"?
In this regard, the researcher of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences explained that bananas are very perishable, and the milky white liquid in the video is a preservative. It is internationally recognized that low toxicity sterilization and degradation are fast. After being registered by the competent authorities, it is allowed to be used in banana preservation, and the corresponding recommended dosage and residue limit standards are also formulated. So consumers don’t have to worry. Feel free to use it.
Food fraud is abhorrent, but there are always food safety rumors that poke your "pain point". With the rapid spread of the Internet, many people have seen food safety information with pictures and videos from their circle of friends, such as "So-and-so food is toxic and carcinogenic" and "Don’t eat XX". These seemingly vivid and lively food safety information are really the truth? After all, they exposed the clues in front of science and common sense, and finally ended up being rumored.
Multi-department joint action to defend "safety on the tip of the tongue"
In the past, food fraud was mainly based on "administrative law enforcement and insufficient judicial intervention". Now "food fraud is directly punished" is expected to change this situation.
Food and Drug Administration: Implementing the "Four Strictest" Food Safety Penalties to People
On January 18th, Comrade Jiao Hong, deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration, presided over an expert meeting, and held a special discussion and exchange on further implementing the "four strictest" requirements of the central government on food and drug safety, implementing the spirit of the instructions of "punishing people" for illegal activities in production and operation, and promoting the direct punishment of adulteration and forgery. Comrade Jiao Hong pointed out that to implement the "four strictest" requirements of the central government on food and drug safety and the spirit of the instructions to promote adulteration and counterfeiting to be directly punished and "punished to people", the Food and Drug Administration will further intensify its work, and combine the revision of the Drug Administration Law, the Regulations on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law and the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics to further improve the relevant systems for punishing natural persons, and actively promote the revision of the judicial interpretation of food and drug safety.
Ministry of Public Security: It will directly punish food fraud.
On March 17, the relevant person in charge of the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security said that in the next step, the public security organs will further intensify the criminal crackdown, actively work with relevant departments to promote the direct imprisonment of food fraud, improve the judicial interpretation of cracking down on food and drug crimes, and give full play to the deterrent effect of the criminal law. At the same time, make full use of the food safety law, impose administrative detention punishment on food safety violations that do not constitute crimes according to law, but are hated by the masses, resolutely punish people, and make criminals pay a high price.