Five cents snacks wholesale scare worried about safety

Low prices, strong flavors, and a pack of snacks made the students appetite. Low quality foods also tempted children's taste buds and threatened their children's safety. The school day is approaching. The reporter visited a food market in Yide Road and discovered that many small stores around the campus are in stock. They are even closer to wholesalers in Shanghai and Shenyang.

On August 26, the Guangzhou Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce announced the sampling results of meat products, instant noodles and other foods sold around the campus in the first quarter of 2013. Of the 517 batches of samples including brands including Master Kong, Kraft and Sizhou, there were 37 batches. Times failed. Many brands of instant noodles, dried beans, fillets, seaweed, dried fruit are all on the list.

What is the source of five cents snacks? Many reporters came to know that many of the snack shops around Guangzhou’s primary and secondary schools came from the Yide Road food wholesale market. Yesterday, the reporter went to a comprehensive wholesale market at No. 275, Yide Road, where all kinds of snacks were colorful and piled up in narrow compartments. Wholesale snack stalls were also connected in a row.

Guangzhou snacks are sold to the northeast

Near the beginning of the school year, a company named “Wuwu” has a hot business at wholesale stores. The boss said that the summer vacation was “flying” with flies, and now the old customers are back. It will be very hot just after school starts. In speaking, the boss walked around the narrow stalls and greeted the guests.

In this snack shop, the boss enthusiastically promotes a variety of snacks. The wholesale price ranges from 2 to 7 hairs. The reporter stated that he had opened a small snack shop near a primary school in Baiyun District. The location was relatively partial and the consumption level was not high, so the boss recommended several “cheap goods” to reporters. "This type of shrimp and fructose has a purchase price of 35 hairs and a sale price of 5 hairs and 1 yuan."

A wholesaler from Shanghai came to the consultation. The boss took out a large cartons of colorful sugar tablets for sale. He used a small can of bottles and 40 bottles of 11.2 yuan. Each bottle of 2.8 horns is generally sold to 5 pupils for primary school students. If it is a key primary school or high-end community primary school, the sale price will be mentioned as 1 yuan. "All Guangzhou can get goods here, depending on how you sell it."

The reporter stayed at the store for half an hour and saw many foreign wholesalers coming to pick up the goods. The goods would be sold to Shanghai and Shenyang. A wholesaler said that Guangzhou's goods are all in stock, and the logistics is unimpeded. They will start school soon and a large number of businesses will spring up. In the summer vacation, she has at least one batch of goods approved at a store.

"Yangwen" snacks are unknown

Visiting a number of food wholesalers, the reporter found that these snacks are more likely to attract primary school students’ attention through various animation patterns and novelty packaging of bright colors. What is more, some of the local snacks pretend to be “sea snacks.” Names to attract pupils to buy.

In a wholesale file, the reporter saw the image of a 35-gram spicy vegetarian hit TV drama hero as the packaging pattern. Another nominally named “Xingzai Brand” small buns, produced in a food factory in the town of Chaoan County, has a net content of 7 grams and is priced at a cent. Cartoon characters such as “young sheep” and “happy sheep” are printed on the bags. , indicating that the shelf life is 12 months, but the date of manufacture cannot be found on the packaging.

"These foods are imported products, each bag ranging from 1 yuan to 2 yuan." In the store, the reporter saw a lot of food in Korean, Japanese labels, the boss said "imported" snacks particularly easy to sell. The reporter asked, the boss said that many should be produced at the domestic factory, but the specific is unknown, "do not control so much, to make money on the line."

The reporter learned that according to the "Product Labeling Regulations," the text used for product labeling should be standardized Chinese, and Pinyin or foreign languages ​​can be used at the same time. Pinyin and foreign languages ​​should be smaller than the corresponding Chinese. On the shelves of this pile of foreign food, the reporter also saw so-called snacks from places such as Japan and Thailand. The packaging labels were written in the languages ​​of these countries.

A food containing 7 additives

The reporter found that most of the snacks rushed to a strong plastic taste as soon as they opened the tasting, and the transparent plastic bag of a packet of shrimps was too thin to leak. Reporters behind the colorful snack packs saw a variety of additives such as sodium cyclamate, sodium dehydroacetate, potassium sorbate, food flavors, chicken powder, green onion powder, and other additives. Reporters detailed the “spicy” additives. Up to 7 kinds.