A few days ago, the media exposed
#煤油车装食用油#事件
It has attracted widespread attention
On July 9, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued a news release saying that in response to the "chaos of tanker transportation of edible oil" reflected by the media, the Food Safety Office of the State Council attached great importance to it, and organized the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Transport, the State Administration of Market Supervision, the State Food and Reserves Administration and other departments to hold a special meeting to study, and set up a joint investigation team to thoroughly investigate the problems related to the transportation of edible oil tankers.
The Food Safety Office of the State Council said that illegal enterprises and relevant responsible persons will be severely punished in accordance with the law and will not be tolerated. At the same time, we should draw inferences from one case and organize a special investigation of edible oil risks and hidden dangers. The results of the investigation will be announced in a timely manner.
Previously reported
Recently, some media have investigated the chaos of tanker transportation and found that many domestic general tankers transport liquids that are not fixed, not only to undertake edible liquids such as syrup and soybean oil, but also to transport chemical liquids such as coal-to-liquid.
In order to save costs, many tankers do not clean the tank during the exchange and transportation process, and some edible oil manufacturers do not strictly check whether the tank is clean according to the regulations, resulting in the edible oil being polluted by residual chemical liquid.
According to the report, a tanker truck transporting coal-to-liquid from the Ningdong coal-to-liquid plant to Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, unloaded the oil, and drove to the production plant of Huifu Grain and Oil Group in Yanjiao Town, Sanhe City, Hebei Province, loaded with first-class soybean oil and drove out, during which the tanks were not washed.
Another tanker also transported coal-to-liquids from Ningxia to Hebei, unloaded the coal-to-liquids in Shijiazhuang and rushed to Tianjin, where it entered a factory called China Grain Storage Oil (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., and left with 35 tons of soybean oil without washing the tanks.
Some tanker drivers revealed that it is an open secret in the tanker transportation industry that food liquids and chemical liquids are mixed and not cleaned.
Coal-to-liquid
It is a chemical liquid processed from coal
Such as liquid wax, white oil, etc
Coal-to-liquid and edible oil are mixed
What are the dangers to the human body?
Liu Shaowei, a doctor of food safety and a member of the expert group of the Shanghai Food Safety Research Association, introduced that coal-to-liquid is a chemical product, containing heavy metals and benzene and other chemical raw materials, "loading chemical raw materials and then filling edible oil will inevitably have residues", long-term intake of edible oil containing these chemical residues may lead to human poisoning, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms, and even irreversible damage to the liver, kidneys and other organs, but it is difficult for consumers to distinguish.
Liu Shaowei pointed out that in June 2014, the implementation of the "edible vegetable oil bulk transportation specification" mentioned that the transportation of bulk edible oil should use professional vehicles, but the specification is only a recommended standard, and there is no mandatory standard, some enterprises may not pay attention to this, this should be strengthened supervision.
Two leading companies
China Grain Storage Oil (Tianjin) Co., Ltd
and Huifu Grains and Oils Group
caught in the whirlpool of public opinion
Let's take a look at the latest responses from multiple parties
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China Grain Reserves: The whole system has carried out in-depth special investigations
On July 6, China Grain Reserves Management Group Co., Ltd. issued a response saying that the company attaches great importance to and acts quickly, drawing inferences from one case and taking it as a warning, and on the basis of requiring its subordinate oil companies to carry out investigations on July 2, it will carry out in-depth special investigations in the whole system from July 5.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the National Food Safety Law, the Measures for the Supervision of Food Quality and Safety, the Specifications for the Bulk Transportation of Edible Vegetable Oil, and the Measures for the Quality and Safety Management of Central Grain Reserves of China Grain Reserves Group, the directly affiliated enterprises are required to comprehensively and strictly check whether the means of transport used in the warehousing and other links meet the requirements, whether the means of transport of the relevant transport carriers meet the food safety regulations, and whether the operation in the transportation process is standardized. For the transport units and carriers found to have violated the provisions of the inspection, the transportation cooperation shall be immediately terminated in accordance with the law and included in the "blacklist" of the group company's service procurement; Take the initiative to report to the relevant regulatory authorities on major problems found. For directly affiliated enterprises and employees who violate operating procedures and work discipline, they will be dealt with strictly, quickly and seriously.
China Grain Reserves Group requires all units in the whole system to strictly implement their responsibilities, strictly abide by work specifications, strictly prevent the risk of grain and oil pollution, and effectively ensure the safety of grain and oil food reserves.
02.
China Grain Storage Jinding edible oil resumed on the shelves
On the afternoon of July 8, some netizens found that the series of edible oils such as sunflower oil, corn germ oil, olive oil, sesame oil, etc., of Jinding Taobao flagship store of China Grain Storage, have been taken off the shelves.
Regarding the removal operation, the customer service of Jinding Taobao flagship store responded, "The warehouse has been closed recently, and it will be back on the shelves after a while." As for being asked whether Jinding's removal of edible oil from the shelves is related to the recent incident of mixing oil tanks transported by grain storage tankers, the customer service said that the specific reason is not clear.
▲Image source: Daily Economic News, Huashang Daily
On the evening of July 8, the reporter went to the Jingdong platform to search and found that the relevant edible oil products in the Jingdong self-operated flagship store of Jinding edible oil can still be purchased normally. As of press time, the reporter found that the Jinding flagship store on the Taobao platform has resumed selling related edible oil products.
03.
Huifu Grains and Oils: The investigation of relevant departments has been completed
In response to the incident of transporting edible oil directly mixed with edible oil after the transport tanker was not cleaned after transporting coal-to-liquid, on July 8, the reporter called the official website of Huifu Grain and Oil, one of the companies involved, and the relevant staff said that the company actively cooperated with the investigation, and the investigation of the company by the relevant regulatory authorities has ended, and everything is subject to the official notice after that.
The staff member told reporters that the company did not have a tanker, and the tanker involved in the report was "provided by the customer" and pulled the relevant edible oil from Huifu Grain and Oil. As for the relevant cooperative customers, the company will wait for the results of further investigation by the relevant departments before discussing whether to cooperate in the future.
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Tianjin Municipal Supervision Department and Hebei Langfang Municipal Supervision Bureau responded
The Publicity and Emergency Department of the Tianjin Municipal Commission for Market Regulation responded to reporters on the morning of July 9 that the investigation is currently underway and will be notified to the public in the near future.
The Langfang Municipal Administration for Market Regulation in Hebei Province responded to reporters on July 9 that the current incident (tanker chemical oil and edible oil mixed incident) is under investigation by the Sanhe municipal government, which will announce the final investigation results.
05.
Tanker trucks load cooking oil directly after unloading kerosene?
A number of listed companies responded: there is no such behavior
As an investor, the reporter called Daodaoquan and Xiwang Food respectively to ask whether there was a mixed phenomenon.
Daodaoquan said that the Yueyang factory is an integrated production and there is no transportation problem. The Chongqing plant does not have crushing capacity, and the soybean oil is transported to Chongqing for packaging by a dedicated vessel of Yangtze River Shipping, which is dedicated to transporting edible oil.
Xiwang Food said that the company's edible oil is integrated production, and there is no off-site transportation.
In addition, an investor asked Jingliang Holdings on the interactive platform: "Does the company's edible oil transport tanker have the situation of reloading edible oil after transporting coal-to-oil and other items as reported by the media?" ”
Jingliang Holdings responded that after the company found relevant information on the Internet, it organized relevant subsidiaries to carry out self-inspection as soon as possible, and after a comprehensive assessment, there was no such situation.
06.
Tanker drivers talk about mixed loading
In response to relevant reports, Zhong Shun, general manager of Beijing Century Yuefu, one of Huifu's grain and oil customers, told reporters: "This is a very rare phenomenon, China's soybean oil and other (edible) oils, if there is a problem, will not leave the factory." ”
Some food industry practitioners told reporters that some companies do not have their own tankers, they need to hire a third party, many tanker drivers are personal short-term work, there is no regularity, the quality of individual drivers needs to be improved, this situation is prone to problems.
The reporter contacted the drivers of tankers in many places, and the other party said that they were all dedicated to special vehicles and had not heard of the phenomenon of mixed tankers.
A tanker driver in Quanzhou said that there could be no such mixed loading, "it is all illegal". But he also said: "Unless there is a cleaning tank, if there is a cleaning certificate, that is fine." A tanker driver in Shandong told reporters: "I only pull gasoline and diesel, and I can't pull other goods." ”
Based on the current technical conditions, is it possible to realize real-time monitoring of tank trucks? In this regard, some companies that provide relevant traffic monitoring services said that they can theoretically install real-time monitoring equipment for all tankers, and then look at the data remotely, but they don't know how high the cost is.
07.
CCTV network commentary: Mixed use of grain storage tanker transportation tanks:
Such a grass platform team is the life of consumers
CCTV Network Commentary posted on July 8 that no one would have imagined that the tanker trucks at the gas stations on the street might also be filled with cooking oil for our stir-frying. Recently, the media exposed the mixed loading of chemical oil and edible oil in tankers, and some tankers not only undertake edible liquids such as syrup and soybean oil, but also transport chemical liquids such as coal-to-liquid, which has caused an uproar in public opinion.
What is surprising is that the Tianjin branch of a central enterprise such as China Grain Storage is actually one of the protagonists involved. Recently, China Grain Reserves Group publicly responded, saying that it would carry out a special investigation in the whole system. If the inspection finds that there are transport units and carriers that violate the regulations, the transportation cooperation shall be immediately terminated in accordance with the law and included in the "blacklist" of the group company's service procurement. The group requires the directly affiliated enterprises to comprehensively check whether the means of transport used in the warehousing and other links meet the requirements in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and regulations, whether the means of transport of the relevant transport carriers comply with the food safety regulations, and whether the operation in the transportation process is standardized.
At the same time, consumers still have a lot of confusion and confusion. Because the nature of this thing is completely different from ordinary gutter oil. Generally speaking, as long as we are not greedy for cheapness, choose big brands, and choose well-known manufacturers, we can avoid inferior edible oil. However, big brands will also have loopholes in the transportation process of mixed chemical oil and edible oil, which is obviously beyond most people's cognition. It's not just about cooking, it's about bread, chips, baking, cakes, and almost all snacks.
The mixing of food liquids and chemical liquids without cleaning has been an open secret in the tanker transportation industry for a long time. This shows that our "food safety is greater than the sky" is still just a vision. It is normal for a tanker with a capacity of dozens of tons to remain dozens of catties of chemical liquid. However, after mixing edible liquids, this is not an ordinary food accident, it is equivalent to poisoning. This kind of mixed packaging is not only a blatant provocation to the Food Safety Law, but also an extreme disregard for the lives and health of consumers.
Behind all unreasonable business practices are economic interests. For the transporter, in the end, it is a matter of money, many tankers do not clean the tank during the exchange of goods, in order to save hundreds of dollars in cleaning costs, the cost has come down and the competitiveness has gone up, and other transport vehicles have to follow the "volume". However, for the management of edible liquids in and out of the warehouse, especially the receiver with the prefix of the Chinese word, it is completely astonishing to insist that "the cans are not inspected because there is no way to distinguish them". I believe that this is not because of incompetence, but because of immorality and irresponsibility, which leads to aiding and abetting. The grass stage team on the stage is nothing more than a little worse in performance, and there is no big event, and such a grass stage team will kill consumers.
To say that the "Food Safety Law" and related regulatory departments have no norms for food transportation and do not conform to reality, the transportation management is strict, the sales link is strictly managed, the edible oil is no problem, and the transport vehicle itself is no problem, but when it comes to the key node of the connection, there is no one to manage, unwilling to manage the vacuum, resulting in edible oil into the mouth of consumers, which is a serious food safety problem, which shows that there are still loopholes in legal means to drill. It is reported that there is no mandatory national standard for edible oil transportation, and only a recommended specification mentions that special vehicles should be used for the transportation of bulk edible vegetable oil, and the binding rate is quite limited. Whether multi-department collaboration and technical means can make up for the shortcomings at this moment have become the doubts of many laymen, and experts in the industry are urgently needed to solve their doubts.
Thanks to the media that exposed this matter, we can see the problems in the food transportation industry. But what is sad is that for so many years, no one in the industry has come forward, but it has relied on reporters to get clues to track it down, and the media has done the work of supervision. Food safety is not only formalism. How can there be so many grass platform teams, and they are only afraid of the word "serious" in everything.
Edit | Yin Zhen Editor-in-charge|Zhang Xiuli
Review Publication | Li Nannan
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