The snail is quite a few families
However, have you ever thought that the "snail" you eat in your stomach may be a snail?
On the afternoon of the 28th
Issued by Hunan Hanshou County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau
Regarding the investigation and punishment of the use of Fushou snails by two enterprises in accordance with the law
Briefing on the sale of snail meat under false pretenses
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On June 28, the surging news reported that after the two enterprises of Hanshou County Xiangyuan Special Aquatic Products Co., Ltd. and Hongtai Food Factory used Fushou snails to pretend to be snail meat sales, Hanshou County attached great importance to it and acted quickly, and immediately set up a joint law enforcement team led by the County Market Supervision Bureau and composed of county public security, environmental protection and other departments rushed to the scene. Follow-up handling in accordance with laws and regulations will be promptly reported to the public.
Hanshou County will consciously accept the supervision of public opinion, learn lessons, draw inferences from one case, and immediately carry out a special action related to the illegal sales of Fushou snails in the county, comprehensively investigate hidden dangers, fill loopholes, severely crack down on violations of laws and regulations, further standardize the production and operation behavior of practitioners, and effectively ensure the food safety of the people.
Previously reported
According to The Paper, at a processing plant in Huanglushan Village, Yanwanghu Township, Hanshou County, Hunan Province, a fishy smell permeated the factory built of color steel tiles, and several female workers sat around to quickly sift through piles of snail meat on the table, some with pink soft body fragments. Workers shovel the sifted snail meat into plastic baskets, weigh it, and then send it to the cold storage, waiting for the manufacturer's truck to pull away the whole box.
Near the Peace Bridge in Hanshou County, the frozen meat of Fushou snails displayed by "snail dealers".
"Fushou snails, how many or how many you want. Ten tons, twenty tons, whatever you want. The person in charge of the processing plant said that in recent years, the number of snails has decreased, and there are more and more snails in wild waters, and the shelled snails are easy to see.
Some of the snail meat skewers sold in a spicy hot shop on Mercury Street in Changde City can be identified as suspected to be Fushou snails.
In early June, the surging news went to Hunan and other places to investigate and found that the price of Fushou snails caught from the wild is extremely low, and the price difference between snails and ring snails is several times.
The hazards of snails
Fushou snail is an alien species
Extremely reproductive
It has a destructive effect on the ecological environment
May ~ August every year
It is the peak period for spawning and hatching of snails
According to statistics
A snail contains parasites
There are as few as 3,000 and as many as 6,000
Expert Reminder:
Eating snails by mistake
This is especially true when the processing is not thorough enough
Parasites that have not been completely killed
It will drill all over the human body
It even has an effect on the brain
What is the parasite in the snail?
Angiostrongylus cantonensis!
Canton strongyloidiasis
It is a disease caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis
Also known as eosinophilic meningoencephalitis
It is usually due to raw or semi-raw food of snails, freshwater fish and shrimp
or eat raw water or lettuce contaminated with infected larvae
And infection
Occurs when a person is infected
fever, severe headache,
Nausea, vomiting,
Symptoms of meningoencephalitis such as nuchal rigidity
In severe cases, neurological abnormalities may occur
It can even cause coma and death
Fushou snails are similar in appearance to field snails
How to identify them?
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- Judging from the appearance, usually the size of the snail will be much larger than the snail, and the color is yellowish.
- The tail of the snail is relatively short and flat, and the shell is thin and brittle, while the tail of the snail is longer and pointed, and the shell is hard.
- The eggs of the snail are bright red or pink.
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Source | Nanfang Daily, CCTV, Red Net, The Paper, Guangzhou Health Commission, Guangdong CDC, Guangzhou CDC i Health
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