"Stabilizer, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, potassium sorbate, cyclamate..." Various additives + two tons of purified water + walnut flavor = this "walnut" that is a hot seller on the market peanut". Yesterday was the International Consumer Rights Day. This product exposed at the CCTV "3·15" party did not add walnuts or peanuts. The taste of walnuts relied on walnut essence. One can of juice can produce 8,000 bottles. Walnuts and peanuts”. Some practitioners told reporters that these imitated products are mainly sold to some third- and fourth-tier cities and rural markets.

Some companies imitate a certain brand of Wangzai milk to produce a flavored drink called Wanghao Cowboy. If you don’t look carefully, you really can’t tell the difference between the two

The copycat “Liu? Walnut” is produced using peanut butter and walnut essence (video screenshot)

The disinfection equipment in the production workshop has become a decoration

However, the reporter’s investigation found that there is actually another mystery behind these products.

Jinshunyuan Food Co., Ltd. is one of the many beverage processing factories in Zaozhuang, Shandong. Manager Xu, the person in charge of the company, told reporters that the walnut and peanut being produced is their flagship product during the Spring Festival.

Before entering the company's deployment workshop, the reporter saw a pool. Manager Xu said that this was supposed to be used to disinfect work boots. Manager Xu told reporters: "When you take at least two steps, both feet must be smeared with disinfectant, and the bacteria on your feet will be gone. You have to have it if it's not useful. If you don't have it, it's not qualified. You don't have to use it, but you have to have it. "The disinfection pool has become a decoration, and the air purification equipment in the filling workshop has also become a decoration. Manager Xu said: "This workshop must have four air purifiers. Two of the four are fake, and the other two really don't work."

It's not just the disinfection pool that fails to meet the requirements. and air purifier. According to regulations, the mixing workshop should be sealed and relatively isolated from the outside world, but in fact this is not possible. "They are all sealed and isolated when applying for certificates, but they must be removed once they are produced." Manager Xu said.

In fact, my country's "Hygienic Code for Beverage Production" has detailed regulations on disinfection and air purification during the beverage production process. However, at Jinshunyuan Food Co., Ltd., some of the facilities that must be equipped according to regulations have become decorations to cope with inspections.

Various additives are mixed into a can of drink

What are the raw materials of this walnut and peanut? When making ingredients, Manager Xu weighed various additives while giving a detailed introduction to reporters. "Stabilizer, this is acesulfame potassium to increase sweetness, aspartame also increases sweetness, potassium sorbate, cyclamate."

According to corporate standards, white sugar should also be added at this time. Sugar to increase sweetness. Manager Xu told reporters that in order to save costs, no white sugar was actually added. "You need to add two bags of sugar to this pot, and the two bags cost 670 yuan and 680 yuan." "This thing is cheap. A tank of this sauce only costs 400 yuan."

The mixture will be ready. The sweetener and sour agent are poured into a mixing tank and mixed with two tons of purified water. Manager Xu told reporters that the last important step is to add walnut flavor. "The main thing to enhance the flavor is the flavor. Add walnut flavor and also flavor. Add it when you are about to mix the ingredients."

After adding the flavor and stirring, the sauce in the jar has turned milky white. , transported to the filling workshop through pipelines, packaged and packaged, and then ready for sale.

The reporter was very surprised. This product called Walnut Peanut did not add walnuts or peanuts during the production process, but the outer packaging of the product clearly said "Walnut Peanut" and also printed the words "Walnut Peanut". Picture of walnuts and peanuts. Manager Xu also admitted that there are no walnuts added to the product. The flavor of walnuts relies on walnut essence. One can of juice can produce 8,000 bottles of walnuts and peanuts. The cost of such a product is actually very low.

In addition to using various additives to prepare walnut juice, the reporter found during investigation that some companies produce walnut juice that is prepared with peanut butter. The reason why peanut butter is used instead of walnut butter is because the price of peanut butter is much lower than that of walnut butter.

Latest developments

The company involved initiated a product recall

Many companies in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, mass-produce drinks such as fake walnut dew, and some even imitate brand-name companies. For example, "Wangzai" milk has transformed into "Wanghao Cowboy", and some copycat versions of "Xiaoming Classmate", "Red Bull Drink" and "Coconut Milk Drink" are flooding the rural market.

According to statistics, CCTV *** exposed Zaozhuang Chukang Food Co., Ltd., Zaozhuang Jinshunyuan Food Co., Ltd., Zaozhuang Yixiangyuan Food Technology Co., Ltd., Zaozhuang Xuri Food and Beverage Co., Ltd. and other companies.

On the evening of March 15, the official website of the Shandong Provincial Food and Drug Administration announced that the Zaozhuang Kangyuan Food Co., Ltd. and Zaozhuang Jinshunyuan Food Co., Ltd. involved in the incident have initiated product recalls. Relevant departments have filed cases against three companies, ordered them to recall the products involved, and transferred illegal activities such as false labeling, passing off fakes as genuine and trademark infringement to the market supervision department for investigation; two companies suspected of criminal conduct were transferred to the public security department for processing. The legal representatives of the two companies were controlled by the public security department.

In addition, Zaozhuang organized special food safety rectification actions. This includes rectifying product appearance and packaging, standardizing beverage product labels, standardizing the filing of corporate standards, strictly controlling excessive and out-of-range use of additives, strengthening production process control, and severely cracking down on illegal activities.

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Water pipes use "recycled materials" to pass off as national standards

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More than half of the toothbrushes imported from Japan and South Korea do not meet the national standards

The Liaoning Inspection and Quarantine Bureau conducted a sampling inspection on 20 types of Japanese and Korean toothbrushes sold in the Dalian market, and found serious problems with these toothbrushes under a microscope. A large number of imported toothbrushes have sharp angles and burrs on the top of the toothbrush filaments that can easily damage oral soft tissue, and do not meet our country's toothbrush product standards. my country's national standards for toothbrush products stipulate that toothbrush bristles should remove sharp edges and be free of burrs, which can easily lead to gum bleeding and gum sensitivity during use. After discovering these problems, the Liaoning Bureau immediately organized 20 branches to conduct special inspections of 100 batches of Japanese and Korean toothbrushes. The test results are that more than 60% of the toothbrushes are unqualified. Comprehensive CCTV and other reports