No more “salt” can be sprinkled on food-safe wounds

The case of illegal production and sale of "pesticide residue salt" by a Jiangsu company was recently heard in the People's Court of Qiquan District, Fuyang City, Anhui Province. The defendant illegally produced and sold 14,000 tons of “pesticide waste residue salt” and flowed into the salt market in 12 provinces and municipalities across the country. Some of the “pesticide waste residue salt” flows into the dining table as salt.

The use of cooking oil and blending vinegar to bring food safety to people has not yet been clarified. Pesticide salt has once again reached the people's table. With the relaxation of supervision, people's three meals a day can only rely on the conscience of the operators. In and out of restaurants, to meet the appetite of the appetite, to get some minor problems, it is a normal procedure for "sick from the mouth."

This kind of virus called "food safety" has already made people sick. Together with the upsurge of food safety incidents, just like a mine that cannot be banned, there is always a kind of numbness that makes people speechless. Like the "pesticide residue salt" suddenly exposed this time, you can not say that it is more shocking than the waste oil, but it can never say that he is completely able to survive the pesticide salt. Just look at the chain of interests that sell drugs and sell fakes, and look at those intricate processes and places. Whether it's remote rural areas, suburban junctures, or small food processing companies, as long as your body still needs salt, you may In food insecure nets.

If we say that the “false salt” investigated and dealt with in the past was mostly industrial salt in a general sense, it was processed without the exclusive use of food franchises. Then the “pesticide residue salt” investigated here is directly washed and dried from pesticide residues. The harm of pesticides to the body needless to say, and this case of the manufacture and sale of poisonous salts as a chemical melting pot, is it just the tip of the iceberg selling poisonous salt?

Behind every food safety accident, there is bound to be a chain of interests. According to the investigation of the case, the "pesticide residue salt" industry chain produced a 100% or higher profit rate at each link. Not only that, because the circulation channels of the industrial salt and salt markets were opened, many industrial salt companies with small scale and low management confusion were derived. Because there is a salt franchise system, the entire market has attractive profits, a large amount of industrial salt, and even this kind of pesticide residue salt, through various channels to the salt market, to extract huge profits, and endanger public health.

In the face of poisonous salt, strengthening supervision and raising the illegal cost of drug dealers is certainly one aspect. However, the greed for the sale of fakes is rooted in the monopoly of the salt industry. Should this also allow us to consider more about the current salt industry? On the issue of salt, which has always represented rights and taxes, we need to look at the safety of salt, not only the evil side of human nature, but also need to be sorted out at the institutional level. Otherwise, the "toxic salt" that now flows into 12 provinces and cities in the country is only to sprinkle "salt" again on the wounds of food safety.