Yang Fei: "Mummy" Mooncake Erosion Mid-Autumn Festival Health

Author: Yang Fei

Recently, in the "Life Help" column of Shandong Radio and Television Life Channel, the news of "The Chairman Mao's moon cake has become a business selling point" was aired. In the reporter’s visit to the moon cake market, the moon cake’s shelf life ranged from fifteen days to two months and three months. After watching the show, Mr. Jia from the provincial capital of Jinan called the “Life Help” and said that their family had discovered the “mummy” moon cake, which was more than a year old. It was not moldy or hairy. (Qilu.com related news: food experts tasting "mummy" moon cake is certainly not a bad year)

After reading the news, and further understanding, it turned out that this “mummy” moon cake was a welfare payment issued by Mr. Jia’s son unit. At that time, the family took the cake for a few months to be a good thing. Jia also said that he had eaten such moon cakes last year; at that time he still felt good, but now it seems that there should be problems with this moon cake. It is unthinkable that after the moon festival, the whole family will eat together and eat mooncakes (moon offerings). When they eat such "mummy" mooncakes, they will know what the situation will be like. "What about the situation?

How can this magical "mummy" moon cake flow into the market? Among these, I am afraid that production supervision and quality supervision can hardly be blamed. Because, normally qualified products should have tight packaging, and there should be something like a deoxidizer in the package, but the moon cakes are sealed, they are not sealed, and no oxygen is released. For "mummy" moon cakes that are not even qualified for packaging, can managers and supervisors fail to detect even the obvious "hard injuries"? If the answer is in the affirmative, then there is only one explanation: after the relevant departments have accepted the "benefit" of the manufacturing enterprises, they have closed their eyes with one eye, making the foods with hidden dangers pass through the door in a veritable manner. The mutual shirking and misunderstandings of some units have led to problems in the food sector, such as unclear borders, overlapping functions, and regulatory blind spots. In order to prevent this kind of phenomenon from happening again, the most important thing is to require the supervision department to cleanse itself and to do it well.

Second, I am afraid it is also related to the spending of the moon cakes in the community. Moon cakes, also known as Hu cakes, palace cakes, small cakes, moon groups, reunion cakes, etc., this is the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival worship moon offerings. According to scholars' research, moon cakes were handed down from the Mid-Autumn Festival and began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the majority of people in the Central Plains could not withstand the ruthless rule of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, and they all rebelled against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united with the various forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officers and soldiers of the court searched closely and it was very difficult to deliver news. Liu Bowen, a military advisor, came up with a plan and ordered his subordinates to hide information contained in the “August 15th Night Uprising” into the crumbs and send information. Nowadays, due to the increasing pressure of work and life, it is difficult for people to relax. Some people regard mooncakes as traditional foods for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because moon cakes are round and symbolize reunion, they reflect people's good wishes for family reunion. However, excessive pursuits have created a strong consumer market for moon cakes and also provided opportunities for criminals to create inferior moon cakes.

Again, it is the consumer's inappropriate behavior. Problems such as "mummy" moon cakes and other foods are frequent, and a considerable part of our customers "God" did not make a difference. This does not rule out the deception of businesses to consumers, but the foolish fox will show clues, there will always be consumers find the mysteries. However, many times, because consumers are faced with collective forms of business in an individual form, there are psychological disadvantages, and they often have to identify themselves as unlucky, and spending money on them has to suffer. Therefore, in the face of the "mummy" moon cakes, I am afraid that most of the "God" encountered will "can't afford to hurt," and make a few complaints, and say a few groans. Then "a small event will lead to a small incident." These immoral food producers and distributors have become fishnets. They either change their face or go to other countries and continue to create a "mummy" that erodes the healthy body of the Chinese nation.

Food is food to safety first. Food safety concerns everyone's health and life. In order to survive, for future generations, let us act and fight with problem foods!