The snail is quite a few families
One of the most common delicacies at the dinner tableHowever, have you ever thought that the "snail" you eat in your stomach may be "Fushou snail......
On June 28, according to media exposure, Fushou snails were "disguised" as Narita snail meat and sold to consumers
According to reports, in Hunan, Chongqing and other places unannounced investigations, it was found that the price of Fushou snails caught from the wild is extremely low, and the price difference between the price of snails and ring snails is several times. At a processing plant in Huanglushan Village, Yanwanghu Township, Hanshou County, Hunan Province, a fishy smell fills the factory building with color steel tiles, and several female workers sit around a table that quickly sifts through piles of Fushou snail meat, some with pink soft fragments. At the door of the processing plant, there is a sign of "Hanshou County Senxiang Planting and Breeding Professional Cooperative". The reporter noticed that there was also a signboard of "Hanshou Xiangyuan Special Aquatic Products Co., Ltd." near the processing plant. The business scope includes: wholesale and retail of aquatic products. 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. The person in charge of the processing plant said that in recent years, the number of snails has decreased, there are more and more Fushou snails in wild waters, and the shelled Fushou snails are easy to see, in recent years, they mainly sell shelled Fushou snail frozen meat, with a sales volume of several hundred tons a year, mainly sold to some restaurants and prefabricated vegetable factories, in a local chain store called "Xiaobin Malatang" in Mercury Street, Wuling District, Changde City, the reporter found that there were snail meat skewers in the red oil pot, which tasted fishy and the meat was a little rotten, but some of them could still be identified as Fushou snails, but the clerks all said that they were selling snail meat. The backstreet of Changde College of Arts and Sciences is also a famous local food street. The reporter found that many snail skewers used in Malatang restaurants have Fushou snails, but the clerk also said that they were snail meat. Many consumers present said bluntly that they could not tell the difference between the two. Some consumers immediately searched for information about Fushou snails on the Internet after hearing about it. "If you have any doubts, don't eat, you don't have to eat on the Internet." A clerk at a Malatang restaurant said he had heard of Fushou snails, but the snail skewers used in the store were "Guo Shishi" brand snails, which "have been sold for many years and have not had any problems." According to industrial and commercial information, the "Guo Shifu" brand comes from Changsha Guo Shi Food Co., Ltd., which is a well-known frozen food processing enterprise founded in 2006, selling barbecue and fried products such as chicken skewers, gluten skewers, stinky tofu, etc., which are sold all over the country. According to the product information, the manufacturer of "Master Guo" snail skewers is "Hanshou County Hongtai Food Factory". Founded in 2009, the company's business scope includes the production and sales of baked pastries and quick-frozen foods. He has been punished by administrative and environmental protection for non-compliance with food labels. The reporter came to the company's registered address in Dayang Town, Chenyang Street, Hanshou County, and found that the factory only produces bakery products. The reporter called the person in charge of the food factory, who said that if necessary, it could be shipped directly, and he could not visit the site, "If you are not there, you can't see it." Netizens are hotly discussed
As soon as the incident was exposed, many netizens expressed their anger, "It's ridiculous" and "unscrupulous for money!" ”
Some netizens expressed concern that "the shelled ones can be distinguished, but after processing, it will be difficult to distinguish them", "It is recommended to eat the shelled snails"
Some netizens also put forward the idea of "keeping Fushou snails in captivity to avoid pollution and parasites, is it safe to eat"
Latest developments
On June 28, the Hanshou County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau issued a circular on the investigation and punishment of the use of Fushou snails by two enterprises to sell snail meat as snails in accordance with the law
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On June 28, after the media reported that 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, county public security, environmental protection and other departments rushed to the scene, and the joint law enforcement team has seized the enterprises involved, and sealed all finished products, semi-finished products and raw materials on the spot, and the public security organs have summoned the legal persons involved in the case in place. 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.
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The hazards of snails
Fushou snail is an alien species, with strong reproductive ability and destructive power to the ecological environment. According to statistics, there are 3,000 fewer parasites and more than 6,000 parasites in a snail.
If it is not fully cooked during cooking, the parasites will easily enter the human body after eating, which may damage nerve tissue, and in severe cases, it will lead to dementia and even death.
How to tell the difference
(1) In terms of appearance, usually the size of the snail will be much larger than that of the snail, and the color is yellowish;
(2) 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 sharper, and the shell is hard.
(3) The eggs of the snail are bright red or pink.
How to distinguish snail meat without a shell
And a routine for distinguishing the color of the shell: