In response to the arrival of “315 International Consumer Day”, yesterday (14)GuangdongTV station once once more exposed “Shantou workers stepped on pickled vegetables”food safetyAs a result, many well-known pickle companies were seized.
According to a Guangdong TV report, the production process and environment of some pickle factories in Shantou City are very harsh. Some pickle factory workers cut pickles while smoking, and the pickles that fell on the ground were directly thrown into boxes.
Among them, the workers of Shantou Mutongyuan Food Co., Ltd. directly stepped on the galangal with bare feet when making pickles. These galangals will be used to increase the flavor of sour pickles. When asked if they would have “spicy feet”, the worker said without hesitation: “Spicy, hot feet, I won’t be spicy if I get used to it.”
Another well-known sour pickle manufacturer in Chaoshan, Waisha Jingui Fruit and Vegetable Pickling Factory in Longhu District, Shantou City, workers wore water shoes and stepped back and forth in the mud and pickling pits without any cleaning and disinfection. There are also workers who kick the scattered mustard greens like balls back into the pickling pit. There are also pickling workers standing on wooden boards holding cigarettes in their hands and spitting white unidentified objects into the pickling pit.
Vegetables were soaked in puddles full of white foam, and the hygienic environment was disgusting. In addition to pickled vegetables, there are also olive vegetables produced by Shantou Yulei. The mustard greens, the raw material, are moldy and spoiled like garbage piled on the side of the road, with flies and mosquitoes flying on them.
According to Observer.com, the exposed companies include Shantou Mutongyuan Food Co., Ltd., Waisha Jingui Fruit and Vegetable Pickling Factory in Longhu District, Shantou City, and Shantou Yulei Food Industry Co., Ltd., which were established in January 2022 and July 2011 respectively. In November and November 1978, the business scope included food production.
After the hygiene problem of pickled vegetables was exposed, the market supervision and management department of Shantou City took action overnight to thoroughly investigate the factories involved and seized the problematic products, and comprehensively checked the production and circulation of pickled vegetables to prevent problematic products from entering the market. shelf.
