China News Network Guangzhou, March 3 (Reporter Sun Qiuxia) Guangdong media exposed on the 15th that Shantou Yulei Food Industrial Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yulei Food") olive vegetable production environment is dirty and poor, black and rancid vegetable leaves are used as raw materials for Chaoshan delicious "olive vegetables", the production environment is shocking. At about 14 o'clock that night, the Shantou Market Supervision Bureau and the Shantou Longhu District Market Supervision Administration rushed to the enterprises involved to carry out on-site law enforcement.
According to public information, Yulei Food is located in Nanshe Industrial Zone, Waisha Town, Longhu District, Shantou City, formerly known as Chenghai County Waisha Sideline Food Factory founded in 1978, and changed to its current name in 2001, is a large-scale agricultural and sideline products research and development and processing enterprise in eastern Guangdong. The registered capital of the enterprise is 240.<> million yuan, and the legal representative is Wang Xiaodong.
Olive cuisine is a Chaoshan regional style side dish, which belongs to the Teochew cuisine of Cantonese cuisine. As a Chaoshan specialty, olive dishes are one of the favorite salty dishes on the table of Chaoshan people, and have a unique Chaoshan flavor. It is understood that Yulei Food took the lead in standardizing the production of Chaoshan miscellaneous salts in the Chaoshan area. In 2003, the company's "Chaoshan Tribute Cuisine" and "Chaoshan Olive Cuisine" were listed as "National Geographical Indication Protected Products" by AQSIQ.
It is worth noting that on July 2020, 7, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province issued the "Guangdong Province Food Safety Local Standard Olive Vegetables", which clearly requires that raw mustard greens should be fresh and free of mildew and rot, and Yulei Food is one of the drafting units of this standard.
Deng Qianqiu, a lawyer at Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm, said in an interview with Chinanews.com that if the olive vegetables produced and sold by manufacturers do not meet food safety standards and are sufficient to cause serious food poisoning accidents or other serious foodborne diseases, they may constitute the crime of "producing and selling food that does not meet safety standards" under the criminal law, and those responsible must be fined at least fined, sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than three years or criminal detention, and if there are serious circumstances or cause particularly serious consequences, the punishment will be more severe.
Deng Qianqiu pointed out that even if it does not constitute a crime, according to the Food Safety Law, if the production and operation of food and food additives that are corrupt, rancid, mildew, filthy, mixed with foreign substances, adulterated or have abnormal sensory properties, they should still be punished with administrative penalties of confiscation of production tools, fines or even revocation of production and business licenses.
The reporter searched on Taobao, Jingdong, Pinduoduo and other platforms and found that at present, the products of Yulei Food flagship store have been removed, and at the same time, searching for keywords such as "Yulei olive vegetables" has been unable to find the products involved.
Chen Tongzheng, the first-level host of the Shantou Longhu District Market Supervision Administration, said in an interview with the media that Yulei Food will be subject to law enforcement supervision in accordance with the provisions of the Food Safety Law, and a third party will be invited to conduct random inspections on the basis of preliminary understanding of the situation, and then investigation, case filing, sealing and seizure will be carried out in accordance with the procedures. (End)