"Fever, eczema, often patting his head."
Recently, Ms. Zhu in Yongxing County, Chenzhou, Hunan Province mentioned the daughter ’s physical condition to the media many times. According to her description, in the past two years, a 3-year-old daughter ate a solid beverage product called "Beminamine", which caused the body to develop "rickets symptoms".
Ms. Zhu said that in order to find a “hypoallergenic” milk powder for her daughter, she bought the above products as a staple food at the recommendation of a local mother and baby store, which caused her daughter to have abnormal health.
So far, five parents in Yongxing County have reported similar experiences. The merchant involved insisted that the quality of the product was not a problem, nor did it deceive consumers.
"Milk powder incident" caused concern. On the afternoon of May 13, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the head of the Propaganda Department of the Yongxing County Party Committee that at present, the county is targeting the "deception of consumers by selling baby milk powder with protein solid beverages as infants and young children in the Aiyingfang mother and baby store" A special class investigation has been organized, and relevant personnel have also rushed to the product manufacturer for investigation. In addition, the local will arrange 5 involved children to go to the hospital for examination, and organize experts to demonstrate.
Tonight, the State Administration of Market Supervision also released news in response to the matter, instructing the market supervision department of Hunan Province to conduct a thorough investigation of the merchants involved, strictly punish them in accordance with the law, and announce the investigation results to the society in a timely manner.
"Drinking 89 cans of desensitized milk powder in two years, the child suffers from rickets"
Things have to start in 2017. Ms. Zhu of Yongxing County, Chenzhou City took her 6-month-old daughter Niuniu to the hospital for an allergy test. The test results given by Chenzhou Children's Hospital show that her daughter is allergic to milk and eggs, and her milk allergy is up to 3+. "At that time, the doctor recommended that children drink amino acid formula milk powder, which can be bought in maternal and infant stores."
Ms. Zhu said that in Yongxing County, Aiyingfang is the most well-known mother-infant chain store, "5 stores, 3 franchisees, each street has."
After returning home, she purchased the amino acid formula milk powder in the baby-friendly store of BBK supermarket, and the clerk recommended this product to her called "Beminamine". "The salesperson said that children who have allergies must drink this milk powder. When they are promoted, the salesperson always introduces the milk powder."
The packaging of this product is no different from ordinary milk powder. She did not even notice that the bottom right corner of the product can is marked as a protein solid beverage. The product is a deep-hydrolyzed whey protein imported from France.
The price of Bemin is not cheap, 400 grams per barrel, priced at 298 yuan, "more than twice as expensive as usual milk powder, but for the sake of children, also willing to spend money."
Ms. Zhu told reporters that later, this "milk powder" became her daughter's staple food. Over the next two years, her daughter ate 89 cans.
Ms. Zhu recalled that during this period, the child always coughed, had eczema on her body, and often patted her head.
"I never thought it would be a problem with milk powder." Until November 2019, Ms. Zhu saw news reports that the doctors of Chenzhou Children's Hospital had promoted milk powder for allergic babies, but the prescribed milk powder was a solid drink, which caused the baby Problems occur after consumption.
Therefore, Ms. Zhu began to suspect that her child also had an abnormality because of eating "milk powder".
According to her description, her 3-year-old daughter this year weighs less than 30 pounds. In addition to being thinner than children of the same age, her daughter's hair also turned yellow.
With doubts, Ms. Zhu led her daughter to the hospital for examination. "The doctor said that the child lacks vitamin B and vitamin A. The habit of starting is rickets symptoms."
Ms. Zhu did not provide the reporter with a medical diagnosis of the child. But her husband Mr. Guo also said, "When a daughter drinks this milk powder, she always has several fevers a month, and it is difficult to get rid of fever. After she quit the milk powder, she had a fever once a year."
Merchants call solid milk records as "milk powder" is the usual habit
In fact, there are other families in the local area have similar situations.
According to the person in charge of the Propaganda Department of Yongxing County Party Committee, five parents have complained to the county market supervision department. When consulting with parents of babies who are allergic to ordinary milk powder, the salesperson recommends this "bemine sensitive" protein solid beverage product for their babies to eat.
Ms. Zhu believes that she was misled by the salesman of the baby-friendly shop, and took the product as a special medical milk powder for children to take as a staple food. She hoped that Baby Friendly would take responsibility and make compensation. "They said that this was milk powder for allergic children, but later they did not admit it, saying that they sold nutritious powder instead of milk powder."
In response, Mr. Liao, the person in charge of Yongxing County Aiyingfang, retorted that his chain store has been open in Yongxing County for 15 years, and there are 5 stores. "For so many years, there has never been an accident. The products in our store are all Conforms to national standards. "
A reporter from the Beijing News found that this protein solid beverage named "Beminamine" is a product of Hunan Weile Health Industry Co., Ltd., and is sold under the brand of "Grow Sun".
The company is located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, with a registered capital of 2 million yuan. Its business scope includes sales of milk-containing beverages and vegetable protein beverages, foods, infant formula milk powder, special medical formula foods, solid beverages, special dietary foods, and health foods.
An immunologist who did not want to be named said that solid beverage is a kind of food, it can not guarantee the ingredients needed for the baby's growth, and long-term eating will lead to uneven nutrition.
In China, for infant formula, a management system similar to medicines is adopted, and supervision is relatively strong. "It is necessary to ensure the balance of various nutrients required by infants and young children, and has strict requirements for the nutrition required for infants' growth and development."
Chen Shangwu, a professor at the School of Food Science and Nutrition Engineering at China Agricultural University, told reporters at the Beijing News that special medical foods are mainly aimed at people with genetic diseases and metabolic disorders. If the child does not have a genetic disease, it is not recommended to eat special medical food. "The phenomenon of big heads in children may be caused by long-term protein deficiency."
Mr. Liao said that he was directly buying from Sungrowing. "The salesman came in and said that this product can supplement the nutrition needed by children and is suitable for children with allergies. We think this product is good and there is a quality inspection report, so it was only purchased."
A total of 47 boxes of Betamine were sold in his five stores, each weighing two catties and twelve cans, all sold out by October 2019.
Mr. Liao believes that there is no quality problem with the product of Bemin, and it is not called "milk powder" by its own salesperson when it is promoted. "Our marketing message is that this product is for children with allergies and can supplement nutrients, not saying that this is milk powder."
However, the reporter noticed that there were media reports that the salesperson's record directly described the product as milk powder, and Mr. Liao explained that this kind of record is just the usual habit.
Manufacturers without milk powder related business
A test report of amine-sensitive protein solid beverage issued by the partner of Aixingfang in Yongxing County to the reporter of Beijing News showed that the product name was amine-sensitive protein solid beverage. Its food name, ingredient list, producer and distributor information, food production license number, product standard code, etc. all meet the standards.
In addition, the reporter noticed that in the column of allergenic substances, it was marked as none. In the nutrient composition table, its protein content is 11g per 100g, accounting for 18%.
In another inspection report issued by the Guangdong Quality Supervision Food Inspection Station, the inspection conclusion of the "Beminamine" product was qualified.
However, the reporter noticed that the actual producer of "Beminamine" was Tianjin Deheng Technology Co., Ltd. Zhangjiawo Processing Plant (now Tianjin Deheng Technology Co., Ltd. Manufacturing Center), and its parent company was Tianjin Deheng Technology. Limited company. Its business scope is: solid beverages, food additives: compound nutrition fortifiers, milk beverage stabilizer production, technology development, consulting, services, etc. There is no milk powder related business.
Mr. Liao told reporters that after receiving complaints from five parents, at the end of April this year, a group of people went to the Industry and Commerce Bureau for coordination and the Market Supervision Administration also participated in the communication.
"Mediated twice, but the parents of the child demanded huge compensation. We are doing legal business and it is impossible to give it." Mr. Liao said that during this period, some parents came to the store, once locked the store door, and once called someone to the store to make trouble He called the police six times for this.
Mr. Liao questioned that the child's condition was not as exaggerated as the parents said. "I have seen Ms. Zhu's children. They are beautiful and lively."
Mr. Guo did not deny the claim for compensation from the mother and baby store. He claimed that the amount of compensation was calculated based on 10 times the cost of the product purchased by him. Regarding the child's physical condition, he described, "One of our five families drank this product for a few months, and the skull protruded more seriously. My daughter had a large head at first, and it slowly improved after she stopped using it."
But he also thinks that whether the children take this solid drink will cause the appearance of large heads and rickets symptoms still need professional medical identification.
On the afternoon of May 13, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the Yongxing County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau that at present, five children have been organized to go to the hospital for examination and to find experts to conduct an argument.
Industry insiders: Solid beverages are more profitable than milk powder, and some merchants are "pretending" to sell
The reporter noticed that in Chenzhou, there have been cases where solid beverages were sold as milk powder for special doctors.
According to previous surging news reports, in 2019, the two mothers in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, according to the "prescription" prescribed by the doctors of the First People's Hospital of Chenzhou, Hunan, the milk powder purchased from the hospital is also a solid beverage. powder".
Subsequently, Hunan Chenzhou First People's Hospital issued an open letter saying that in the actual sales process, the salesperson promoted Shu Ermen as a food for special medical purposes and also privately printed "Chenzhou First People's Hospital Prescription Paper" 1. The note paper for "Public Pharmacy" and the content of Shuer's various formula powders will be distributed to the clinics of the hospital. To this end, the hospital conducted a written inspection, disciplinary treatment, critical education, and ordered public review of six people in the hospital's pharmacy department, child care department, and children's gastroenterology department on the grounds of "poor performance of duties and job failure." At the same time, the convenience pharmacy of the hospital has also been closed.
In an interview with a reporter from the Beijing News, Mr. Liao, the person in charge of Yongxing County ’s Aiyingfang, said that he did not cooperate with the hospital and that he did not “pretend to be a special doctor ’s milk powder” when selling.
In this regard, an industry source revealed to the Beijing News reporter that it is not uncommon for mothers and infants to obtain better profits in order to obtain better profits.
Li Jia (pseudonym) is the head of the marketing department of a well-known mother and baby franchise company in China. He told the Beijing News that there are many types of special medical milk powder in mother and baby stores, but many unprofessional mother and baby stores will be sub-optimal. , Selling low-cost, poorly nutritional solid beverages as milk powder to deceive consumers.
Li Jia revealed that the purchase price of milk powder for special doctors is cheap, only 40% off the market price of ordinary milk powder. Maternal and child stores can also sell their own prices when selling, and the profit is very high. "In comparison, the market price of solid beverages is similar to that of specialty milk powder, but the purchase price is lower. So some mother and baby stores will use low-cost solid beverages as specialty milk powder in order to obtain higher profits."
For example, Li Jia said that the profit of a can of special medical milk powder is about 120 yuan, more than double that of ordinary milk powder. Based on this calculation, the profit of 564 cans of solid beverages sold by Ai Ying Fang in Yongxing County is at least 67,000 yuan.
On May 13, the person in charge of the Yongxing County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau told the reporter of the Beijing News that the county has established a special working group composed of the county market supervision and administration bureau, the county health and health bureau and other relevant functional departments. The Fang Maternal and Infant Store conducts a comprehensive investigation in accordance with law and regulations, and the results of the investigation will be announced to the public in a timely manner. At the same time, the county arranged for the county people's hospital to conduct free medical examinations for infants and young children who purchased solid benamine protein drinks, and conducted clinical medical diagnosis and treatment of symptomatic infants and young children, and invited nutrition experts to guide auxiliary treatment.
In addition, the county also launched a one-month special rectification of food safety, especially food safety for infants and young children, and the county's discipline inspection and supervision agency also paid close attention to the handling of the incident.
Beijing News reporter Wang Ruiwen intern Ma Jieying