"Unsmoked sulfur is sold abroad", sulfur octagonal pits Chinese people?
Talk about Fengsheng
"Individual unscrupulous merchants cut corners and materials to reduce costs-regulatory failure-inferior products occupy the market-consumers lose their right to choose", so far the sulphur smoked anise "perfectly performs" a scene of bad money driving out good money.
According to the Beijing News, as the main octagonal production area, Santang Town, Nanning City, Guangxi will usher in the peak shipping season every August.
As the largest local octagonal trading market, the peak natural fragrance logistics center (hereinafter referred to as the peak market), the daily shipment volume is as high as 300 tons.
However, a reporter from the Beijing News recently found that in the peak market, in order to shorten working hours and reduce costs, most businesses use sulfur to smoke anise, while wholesalers also purchase sulfur anise and sell it to restaurants, Canteen etc.
What's more shocking is that as early as 2012, a well-known media once exposed such chaos under the title "Guangxi uses sulfur to smoke star anise to make unsulphurized star anise sold abroad".
After a lapse of eight years, the reality that "Sulfur-free star anise is only sold abroad and one can be found in the domestic market" is sad.
The latest news shows that on the morning of September 22, under the on-site guidance of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Market Supervision Bureau, the Nanning City and Xingning District two-level market supervision departments acted quickly to operate the 13 “Guangxi Peak Natural Spice Logistics Center”. Households conducted inspections and a total of 18 batches of star anise samples were sampled, and about 141 tons of star anise were seized on site.
The supervision of public opinion has played an effect, but there must be some reflection.
Judging from reports, the reason why this "sulphur octagonal game" has been "unfailing" has a lot to do with the slack supervision of local authorities.
It is precisely in the environment where merchants "have countermeasures in their chests", the market "greets in advance", and supervision "opens only one eye and closes one eye" that the "sulfur" moving octagonal can flourish.
Regrettably, after being exposed by the media in 2012, the special rectification action that followed the supervision of public opinion did let the sulphur anise fade out for a period of time, but its breeding soil has never been eradicated.
Whether it is reflecting on the failure of the previous special rectification actions or examining the almost naked supervision, the local functional departments are already owed too much.
China’s octagonal view of Guangxi and Guangxi’s octagonal view of Nanning. From a macro perspective, in view of the unspoken rules of the industry that have been raging for many years, the first thing the local must do is to break the local protectionist thinking, get rid of the lazy political inertia, and recreate a green and healthy root , A healthy octagonal market.
Based on the star anise planting industry, "star anise is picked and dried by individuals, and produced in mountainous areas." The relevant department's "difficult to obtain evidence and difficult to manage" is not entirely an excuse.
However, this cannot be an excuse for the absence of supervision.
Local functional departments may wish to strictly follow the relevant national standards, explore effective detection methods, strengthen daily random inspections, and extend the regulatory tentacles downwards, severely penalize illegal businesses in accordance with laws and regulations, increase illegal costs, strengthen information disclosure, and make full use of The characteristic of large-scale planting in the local octagonal township has turned “bad money out of good money” into a herd effect of “encouraging leaders”.
After all, although the octagon is small, safety matters.
Only by building a strong line of defense can the people regain their freedom of choice and "safety on the tip of the tongue."
□Heguang (media person)