Water injection has been popular in the society for more than 10 years. If the relevant department manages strictly, it has converged, and a slight relaxation will soon rise up. According to market research before the Spring Festival, it has been confirmed that there are quite a lot of farmers' markets in many areas where water injection meat is present, and it has become “legitimate†and universal, and consumers have no alternative.
Although the current water injection meat does not cause poisoning accidents as large quantities of people as "lean meat" or "problem milk powder", water injection meat has become stubborn social cancer. If it is not completely eradicated, major safety accidents or major outbreaks will occur sooner or later. ACCIDENT. Because the injection of water has led to the outbreak of violence by a few lawless elements, and the vast number of consumers have suffered from it, the entire society has suffered from it. Its potential threats are difficult to estimate. The determination of protein content in water-injected meat is usually measured using an automated Kjeldahl determination instrument or a crude protein analyzer, which is convenient and quick.
1 New manifestations of the current water injection
1. 1 Note that meat is flooding most markets
According to field research, most farmers' markets, including a considerable portion of supermarkets, are currently selling water-injected meat. Including pork, beef and mutton, it is difficult to find completely unfilled pork at the farmer's market before the Spring Festival. When asked whether the stall owner meat is a waterflood, some said: "The meat with water is cheaper, and the price without water is more expensive, and it will be bought with you." Others say: "Latin meat, for example, was mostly transferred from Inner Mongolia. If you do not fetch water, you will not die when you arrive."
1. 2 "legal" sales of water injections
According to the survey, almost all of the water-injection meats come from the designated slaughter plants (spots), and they all hold various bills and seals from the designated slaughter plants (sites). In other words, these meats come from the main channel and are legal, and they can be sold in all markets within the jurisdiction. In the meat wholesale market, so-called "small pork" can sometimes be seen. It is estimated that most of the live pigs weigh between 25 and 35 kg. In terms of tidy saw cuts, the mechanization at the designated slaughterhouse (dot) is considered. Processing, but most of them did not have the bills and quarantine certificates at the designated slaughter plant (spot).
At present, these water-injected meats from the main channels are flooded with most of the farmers' markets and supermarkets and have been sold to consumers for many years without supervision and accountability.
2 The serious harm of water injection
2. 1 Formation of Toxic Substances in Water
The lawless elements treated the live pigs in the gastrointestinal tract and slaughtered them with mechanical or physical methods to inject water or water into the pig's arteries to force the water content of the meat to exceed the national standard. This kind of meat is called "waterflooding meat." Simply put, "waterflooding meat" is a meat product slaughtered and processed by live pigs forcibly filled with water.
When a large number of live pigs are filled with water, the body is in a state of suffocation and poisoning itself, and toxic substances that decompose in the gastrointestinal tract spread throughout the body muscles. If it is injected with sewage, washed blood in slaughter, etc. itself contains a large number of bacteria, viruses, it can rapidly multiply in meat products and cause rapid deterioration, the formation of dangerous harmful meat.
2. 2 The serious harm to human body caused by water injection
The water-injection meat not only greatly reduces the nutritional value, but also causes serious pollution in the water injection equipment of most individual slaughter households. The bacterial content is high, causing the meat to be contaminated and easily spoiled and deteriorated. People can easily cause food poisoning after eating.
In addition to sewage and drowning water, the injected water is added with washing powder, gelatin, etc., resulting in heavy metals, pesticides and other toxic, harmful substances, various parasites, pathogenic bacteria, etc. into the pig. People who eat such meat for a long period of time will suffer accumulation of poisoning, which will cause teratogenic, carcinogenic, mutagenic and even epidemic outbreaks.
2. 3 The harm of water injection to society
(1) The ranks of lawless elements chasing profiteering are expanding: According to private butchers (small knife-hands), privately introduced, under the normal conditions, a pig is filled with 10 kg of water, a large pig can be filled with up to 20 kg of water, and a cow can be filled with 50-75 kg of water. Up to 100 kg of water can be injected; a sheep can be watered around 7. 5kg.
(2) Long-term control of major animal epidemics: Some knife workers not only manufacture and sell water-filled meat all the year round, but also collect and sell dead and sick pigs all year round; it is said that the color of sick pork and old mother pork is closer to that of good pork after water injection. Some knife-hands are pouring the blood of the dead pigs into the other pigs, so that the good pork becomes a diseased meat. As a result, the spread and spread of the disease in the region have been accelerated. This is one of the important reasons for the long-term control of highly pathogenic blue ear disease, swine fever and other major animal diseases in recent years.
3 Reasons and Analysis
3. 1 Fixed-point slaughter sites become sites for hiding dirt and filth
According to the “Regulations for Live Pigs Slaughter Management†implemented nationwide from August 1, 2008, the right to examine and approve slaughterhouses (spots) for live pigs is set up at the prefecture-level municipal government. Therefore, the local people's governments at all levels have established the Pig Management Office (abbreviated as the Pig Office). The offices are located in the municipal government's financial, trade, business, and grain functional departments. In the designated slaughterhouses (spots) for live pigs, the pig organization is composed of food, urban management, and veterinary departments. After they began to manage for a period of time, they later became slaughtered by knife-knuckles at the slaughterhouse. On duty at the slaughterhouse, officers on duty were responsible for opening bills and collecting management fees (site, utilities, quarantine, etc.). According to the private swordsman introduction, some pigs were well-fed and slaughtered, while others were equipped with irrigation tools to pre-slaughter and slaughter irrigation.
3. 2 Loss of supervision
At present, pig offices in many places provide that as long as they are pork at designated slaughterhouses (points) are legal and can be sold unimpeded in all markets within the jurisdiction, the industrial and commercial sectors must not intervene, and the animal epidemic prevention departments are not allowed to conduct meat products in the market. quarantine. The knife-knife often slaughters 1 pig or wholesales 1 pork at the slaughterhouse, kills 1 pig (sometimes even sick pigs) at home, mixes the meat and sells it, and escapes various taxes and fees (including quarantine fees). . Because as long as the meat enters the market, neither people check the quality (such as injection of water or meat), nor does anyone have a quarantine. As a result, such fixed-point slaughterhouses (spots) and pig offices really became the "protective umbrella" for water-injected meat and even sick pork.
3. 3 Laws are not serious according to the phenomenon
The new amendments implemented in August 1, 2008 and the “Regulations on Live Pigs Slaughter Regulations†expressly provide that slaughter plants (fields) shall inject water or inject other substances into live pigs or pig products, and the competent commercial authorities shall confiscate live pigs, pig products, and illegal income. A fine of up to 200,000 yuan was imposed concurrently and the pig slaughtering permit was severely revoked. Where any unit or individual outside the slaughter plant (site) is injecting water or injecting other substances into live pigs or pig products, the competent commerce department shall confiscate live pigs and pig products and tools, and impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan. If the live hog products sold on the market are filled with water or other substances, the industrial and commercial administrative department shall confiscate the hog products and impose a fine of up to 50,000 yuan on the responsible sellers.
It can be seen that it is an illegal act to inject water into pigs; violations take place at the slaughter point and the commerce department is responsible for penalties; illegal activities take place in the market and the administrative department for industry and commerce is responsible for penalties. The "Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention" expressly provides that the right to quarantine and punishment of animals and their products shall be vested in animal epidemic prevention agencies at or above the county level. The reason why water-injection meat has been repeatedly banned and “legitimate†sales for many years is mainly due to the fact that laws and regulations do not comply with the law.
3. 4 law enforcement body translocation
The newly revised "Regulations on Pig Slaughtering Management" stipulates that it is clear that the competent commercial authorities of the people's governments at or above the county level are the main bodies of law enforcement. However, the fact is that early in the reform and opening up 20 years ago, most of the major components of the commerce department, namely food companies and food stations at all levels, had gone bankrupt or sold themselves mostly to individuals. As a result, business administrations in most regions have long since become empty shelves. At present, the pig slaughterhouses (points) in most regions (cities, counties) are led and operated by the pig offices. The pig office is only a temporary institution set up by the municipal and county governments. They are neither the main body of law enforcement for slaughtering pigs nor the main body of law enforcement for animal epidemic prevention and quarantine.
4 Suggestions and Countermeasures
4. 1 The supervision of the whole society should have a long-term mechanism
The practice of fixed-point slaughtering is an effective measure to regulate slaughtering behavior, curb slaughter, prevent the slaughter of dead pork, and prevent and control the epidemic of animal diseases. Concentrating on the production of water-filled meat at designated slaughterhouses (points) is obviously against its purpose. . The quality and safety of the meat in the market, and the functional departments related to it, are obligatory. The business management department is the competent unit for pig slaughter at designated points, and all the meat quality from the designated slaughterhouses (spots) should be fully responsible. The industry and commerce departments shall be responsible for quality access to the quality of meat entering each market, and may organize raid inspections at designated slaughterhouses (points) from time to time; the veterinary (dynamic defense) department shall deal with meat entering each market. Re-inspection of the epidemic. The quality supervision and health departments shall supervise the meat products in the markets and supermarkets within the jurisdiction, and regularly publish the exposure of meat quality and case investigation in the media.
4. 2 Strengthen the market management to be implemented in the means and measures
Whether it is waterflood meat or diseased meat, it must ultimately perform and show itself in sales. Therefore, strict supervision of meat products should be established on the market and the following measures should be taken. (1) Market access system: In accordance with the principle of territorial management, each industrial and commercial market, industrial meat wholesale market, shopping malls and supermarkets of industrial and commercial offices designate an industrial and commercial cadre as the person responsible for the supervision of meat safety and have clear responsibilities.
Seriously inspect the inspection and quarantine seals of the meat products sold by the meat business operators, the seals of the designated slaughter establishments, the tickets for the designated slaughter enterprises, the quarantine certificates for the inspection and quarantine departments, etc., as well as the basic conditions of the operators, the lighting conditions, and pork The inspection and quarantine cases and the inspections of the tickets issued by the slaughter and processing enterprises at the designated sites were registered in detail. After passing the inspection, meat products may enter the market for sale.
(2) Set up market warnings and complaints publicity signage: This sign is set up by the industry and commerce department at the entrance of each farmer's market and supermarket. The long-term publicity of the sensory characteristics and identification methods of water-injected meat should be promoted on the card, and the complaint telephones and the statutory penalties for water-injection meat should be published on the resident industry and commerce offices so as to allow consumers to identify and complain about water injection.
(3) Market meat re-inspection system: The veterinary (dynamic defense) department should set up special personnel to re-examine the meats entering each market every day and find the meat of non-fixed butchery enterprises, pork without inspection and quarantine, and water-injection meat , diseased meat, etc., shall be supplemented by inspections and penalties in accordance with the law. Where necessary, joint efforts with the market's industrial and commercial personnel shall punish illegal operators.
(4) Meat traceability system: All places selling pork, such as shopping malls, supermarkets, and markets must sign agreements with designated slaughtering and processing companies, and prohibit the use of pork from other channels to build preventive networks. Strict control from the source, requiring the establishment and improvement of meat import and sales of goods ledger, quality commitment system, stock inspection system, etc., for the implementation of traceable pork management.
4. 3 The fight against water injection is a long-term struggle
If the relevant departments are strictly regulated, then the injection of meat and meat will have a little more convergence, and if it is slightly relaxed, it will soon rise up. Therefore, the fight against water injection is a long-term struggle. It must not be relieved once and for all. Departments of industry and commerce administration, animal epidemic prevention, quality supervision, food hygiene, and business management at all levels of government all have an unshirkable responsibility in the fight against water injection and supervision, as long as they are able to harmonize the country, the people's health, and the interests of consumers. Has been appointed, adhere to daily inspections and regular indefinite deadline checks, water injection meat can certainly disappear.