A hotel in Sichuan sells Fushou snails as snails! On September 11, this incident topped Baidu's livelihood list......
According to the cover news report, some netizens posted that a special restaurant in Guang'an District, Guang'an City, "played side balls" on the menu, labeling spicy snails, but selling Fushou snails. As a time-honored restaurant in Guang'an, the restaurant belongs to a stop for outsiders to travel to Guang'an to check in, and a consensus has been formed in public opinion on the potential harmfulness of Fushou snails, and consumers without experience are easy to be misled, and hope that the relevant departments will supervise.
At present, the law enforcement officers of the Guang'an District Market Supervision Bureau have verified on the spot, and the sales of Fushou snails complained by netizens are indeed true, and the hotel has been investigated by the hotel. The relevant person in charge of the Guang'an District Market Supervision Bureau said that it is planned to investigate the restaurants in the jurisdiction, and invite experts from the Agricultural Bureau to cooperate in law enforcement to carry out the scientific identification of Fushou snails and field snails.
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It is not an isolated case that Fushou snails are sold as field snails.
On May 28 this year, according to media reports, some netizens reported on social platforms that the spicy snails ordered at the restaurant "Tao Ranju" in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province were actually Fushou snails. On the same day, the person in charge of the store involved explained that the store was a franchise store of the well-known Chongqing catering company "Tao Ranju", and the menu was written as "spicy snail" instead of snail. All Fushou snails are artificially bred and supplied by the Chongqing headquarters, and the qualifications are complete, and no complaints have been received before.
On June 28, some media broke the news that Fushou snails were "disguised" as Narita snail meat to make food and sell to consumers. According to media reports, unannounced investigations in Hunan, Chongqing and other places 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.
The picture shows Fushou snail meat according to China News Weekly
This incident of Fushou snails "camouflaging" snails has aroused heated discussions. According to reports, Zhang Jun (pseudonym), a "snail" dealer in Hanshou in Hunan, said that shelled Fushou snails sell for 5 cents per catty, while the price of snails is much more expensive, 3 yuan per catty with shells, and 10 yuan per catty of frozen meat.
Popular science knowledge
Why is it not recommended to eat Fushou snails
Fushou snail, also known as large bottle snail and apple snail, is native to the Amazon River basin in South America. In the early 80s of the 20th century, it was introduced as an aquatic economic organism in mainland Guangdong and other places, and became an invasive alien species with great harm because of its strong adaptability and rapid reproduction.
The snail is not only harmful to the environment, but also an intermediate host for Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Studies have proved that each Fushou snail contains as many as 3,000 to 6,000 larvae of Guangzhou Strongyloides, if it is not fully cooked during cooking, the parasites will easily enter the human body after eating, which may damage nerve tissue, resulting in severe headache, nausea, vomiting, fever, coma, mental abnormalities and other symptoms, and in severe cases, it will lead to dementia and even death.
Tan Minpu, an infectious disease doctor at Suining Central Hospital, said, "If you really want to eat Fushou snails, you should fully heat them during the cooking process to ensure that the ingredients are thoroughly cooked", and make sure that the Fushou snails you buy come from reliable sources and are not contaminated or infected by germs. At the same time, it is necessary to wash thoroughly when handling snails, otherwise it may cause foodborne illness.
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