A store in Xiaolongkan produced and sold 2 tons of drainage oil for two years, and the hotpot restaurant used oil to "thunder"
China Judgment Network released a criminal judgment of Yuyang District People's Court in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province recently, which revealed that Xiaolongkan, a well-known hot pot brand, had made hot pot pot bottoms in a franchised store in Yulin for two years and sold them to customers for consumption. More than 2 tons involved. In the first instance, the court sentenced the five people involved in the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food, and all received penalties.
On July 15, a reporter from the Beijing News called the 24-hour general manager's hotline for food safety set up by Xiaolongkan. The staff said that Xiaolongkan had terminated cooperation with this store. Chengdu Xiaolongkan Food & Beverage Management Co., Ltd. also issued a statement apologizing, saying that it has cooperated with the local authorities to deal with such incidents in 2019.
The Beijing News reporter further sorted out and found that the problem of the use of drain oil in the hot pot industry has been "thunderbolt" in recent years, and multiple cases have been found. The legal person pointed out that the drainage oil has extremely high concealment of illegality, and driven by the interests, the merchants repeatedly take risks to take risks. Many drain oils are not done by one person, and all participants in the entire chain must be severely cracked down.
The boss instructs the purchase and the chef to make and sell the gutter oil
The Xiaolongkan Hotpot restaurant involved is located on the second floor of Huiyou Times Constellation, Yuyang Middle Road, Yuyang District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. According to the first-instance criminal judgment issued by the China Judgment Documents Network recently, the defendant Su Moutao leased and opened the "Xiaolongkan Old Hotpot Restaurant in Yuyang District, Yulin City" in November 2016, starting on February 24, 2017 Business.
From May to July 2017, Su Moutao instructed the in-store buyers and chefs to use the oil-water separator in the kitchen of the hot pot restaurant to separate the waste fat from the bottom of the hot pot after the customer's meal. After heating at high temperature, add auxiliary materials to make red oil (Ditch oil), the chef in charge of making the pot will make the processed red oil into the bottom of the hot pot, and then sell it to customers.
According to the judgment, from May to July 2017, Su Moutao ordered the procurement of Su Moufei to participate in the production of 600 kg of gutter oil, and chefs Liu Dongyue and Feng Mouming participated in the production of 400 kg of gutter oil, which was processed into hot pot bottoms and sold to customers. From August 14th, 2018 to April 26th, 2019, Su Moutao ordered the purchase of Su Moufei and chef Su Mouqiang to process 3963 jin of grout oil and process it into a hot pot bottom. This also means that in less than two years, the shop produced and sold over 2 tons of drain oil.
In April of this year, the court of Yuyang District, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province held that the first trial of Su Moutao and other five people involved in the production and sale of toxic and harmful non-food raw materials, which violated the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China and constituted a toxic production and sale. 3. The crime of harmful food, sentenced to 10 months to 2 years and 4 months, and fined 20,000 to 170,000 yuan. Among them, the legal representative of the hot pot restaurant, the boss Su Moutao was sentenced to two years and four months in prison with a fine of 170,000 yuan.
Xiaolongkan headquarters apologized, saying it has terminated cooperation with the store
This disclosed drain oil case directly exposed Xiaolongkan, a well-known hot pot brand. On July 13, Chengdu Xiaolongkan Food & Beverage Management Co., Ltd. issued a statement on its official Weibo, saying that it "deeply blames and sincerely apologizes for the food safety problems that have occurred in the restaurant." Xiaolongkan has cooperated with the local authorities in 2019 to deal with such incidents, and said that the management of franchise chain franchise chains is long and difficult.
The statement also mentioned that before October 1 this year, Xiaolongkan nationwide stores launched the "Xiaolongkan Hot" applet, which enforces strong supervision on the import, sales, and inventory systems. Once it is verified that there is a risk of oil and food safety in the store, the authorization is cancelled directly, the cooperation is terminated, and the regulatory department is immediately alerted. At the same time, the 24-hour special line for general manager of food safety was also announced.
Subsequently, a reporter from the Beijing News called the 24-hour general manager's hotline for food safety. A man answered that Xiaolongkan had terminated cooperation with this store in Yulin since the incident. Since the release of the hotline on July 13, no complaints have been received regarding food safety.
It is worth noting that this is not the first time Xiaolongkan has been exposed to the problem of drain oil. In 2018, it was exposed online that Xiaolongkan brought leftovers back to the kitchen in three stores in Jilin, Harbin, and Jiangxi, used big barrels to collect base oil, and had problems such as the meat is about to expire and the tableware is not sterilized. On May 28, 2018, Xiaolongkan issued a statement on the official Weibo, saying that all stores should be strengthened. "Once it is verified that there are food safety issues in the above stores, we will never condone."
Hot pot restaurants use chaotic oil frequently
In fact, the problem of drain oil has been "thunderbolt" many times in the hot pot industry.
From May 2018 to January 2019, the ancient hot pot restaurant in Qianwei County, Sichuan Province used waste oil to make hot pot base oil, selling 14142 pots of clear oil red pot and clear oil mandarin pot, with a sales amount of 447,824 yuan. On April 23, 2020, the Qianwei County People’s Court of Leshan City, Sichuan Province sentenced the owner Lei Mou to 7 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 yuan for the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. All were sentenced.
On November 17, 2017, Wang Mou, who opened the Xiongjulin Chongqing Old Hot Pot Restaurant in Bozhou District, Zunyi City, Guizhou, processed waste oil into edible oil, and then added it to the hot pot soup stock for customers to eat until it was supervised and managed by the Zunyi City Bozhou District Market. Bureau investigation. The hotpot restaurant has been in operation from November 25, 2017 until the incident, and has been operating for more than 8 months.
In March 2017, the owner of two “net red” hotpot restaurants in Chuji, Zhejiang, Chuanpu Chuanchuanxiang, and Yaomei hotpot restaurant were arrested by the local procuratorate for illegal use of drain oil. The two bosses and one employee involved in the case were both sentenced to fines and fined.
In June 2016, a drain oil incident broke out in a hot pot restaurant in Dalongyi, Wenzhou. Yumou provided the waste oil of the hot pot consumed by the guests of the shop to Tang, refined it into a drain oil, and then sold it to Dalongyi hotpot restaurant for sale. Give it to guests. Yu was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison with a fine of 100,000 yuan; Tang was sentenced to 2 years in prison with a fine of 50,000 yuan.
In 2016, the Ruian Food Safety Office reported that Yuwei Xiaoyu Hotpot, Qikou Hotpot Chengdu Hotpot, Qianjiaobaiwei Hotpot, Chongqing Famous General Hotpot Restaurant, Ayun Chongqing Old Hotpot, Tangxia Chongqing Bawang Chuanxiang Hotpot, Tangxia Chaotian Eight hot pot restaurants in Men Hot Pot and Chongqing Old Hot Pot (Xinyu Hot Pot) in Tangxia were suspected of illegally using drain oil, and 24 persons involved were taken criminally by the police.
Cracking down on drain oil requires severe punishment throughout
How serious is the production and sale of drain oil? On July 15, Chang Liang, the executive director of Beijing Jiashan Law Firm, told the reporter of the Beijing News that the fat in the hot pot soup stock left by the customer was inedible greasy oil, and the illegal person would reprocess it into a hot pot base The sale to customers for consumption belongs to the act of producing and selling toxic and harmful food, which violates the criminal law and constitutes the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food.
Chang Liang introduced that according to the "Notice on Severe Punishment of "Ditch Oil" Criminal Activities According to Law" issued jointly by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security in 2012, the conviction and sentencing of sewage oil crimes requires an accurate grasp of the criminal policy of combining leniency and strictness Application in the field of food safety. Criminals with recidivism, prior convictions, principal offenders of joint crimes, and the principal elements of group crimes, as well as criminals with huge amounts of crime, bad circumstances, and serious harm, and strong public response, have caused heavy losses to the interests of the country and the people, and severely punished them according to law. When sentenced to death, the death penalty shall be resolutely sentenced according to law. For example, in 2014, the Intermediate People’s Court of Jinan sentenced the accused to a suspended oil production and sale case, deprived him of his political rights for life, and confiscated all his personal property.
However, even in the case of judicial severe punishment of gutter oil, such acts are still repeatedly prohibited. Chang Liang believes that the root cause is that bad businesses are driven by interests. "Ditch oil is not as easy to detect as ordinary food additives, and its appearance and ingredients are highly illegal and concealed. Driven by interests, some businesses will take risks. Relevant regulatory authorities should increase supervision and strict investigation, conditional catering Enterprises can also build their own harmless treatment facilities to carry out harmless treatment of sewage oil."
The industry also believes that many gutter oil incidents are not done by one person, and must be cracked down by the entire chain. Participants should be severely punished. Awe and self-discipline are formed within the industry in order to fundamentally prevent gutter oil from returning to the table.
Food safety professionals also remind consumers to pay attention to the identification of drain oil during meals. First look at the transparency of the oil. The pure vegetable oil is transparent. When the oil is mixed with alkali fat, wax, impurities, etc. during the refining process, the transparency will decrease. Also look at the deposits, you need to be vigilant when you see the deposits in the bottom of the hot pot or the hot pot. In addition, the greasy oil smells and smells strange.
Beijing News reporter Wang Ping