Well-known hot pot restaurants were exposed to using ＂swill oil＂ and ＂undercover＂ to shoot videos to find evidence.
CCTV News:Food safety is an old topic. A well-known hot pot restaurant in Chongqing was exposed by the media and directly served "swill oil" to guests. Not long ago, this store was rated as "assured hot pot restaurant", but it is here that guests are likely to eat "swill oil" which is the same as the waste oil.
A month ago, Mr. Deng, a citizen of Chongqing, had a stomachache after eating hot pot at the captain’s theme hot pot Beicheng Tianjie store, and he suspected that there was something wrong with the hot pot oil. In order to find evidence, Mr. Deng invited someone to go undercover in this hot pot restaurant, and found that the store actually used "swill oil" as the bottom material of the hot pot. The live video provided by Mr. Deng clearly recorded the scene in the kitchen of the captain’s hot pot restaurant.
According to the photographer, this video was taken in the kitchen of Beicheng Tianjie Store, Chongqing Captain’s theme hot pot, during the peak dining period on the evening of December 17th, 2017. The video shows that a waiter carries a pot of eaten hot pot oil, part of which is poured into a big iron bucket and the other part into the garbage can next to it. Subsequently, a waiter brought a pot of leftover hot pot oil and put it on the edge of the hot pot basin with a hot pot grid to prevent the vegetable residue at the bottom of the pot from falling into the iron bucket. Every time hot pot oil is poured into the vat, the master next to it will use a colander to salvage the floating objects inside. Finally, the chef directly scooped the hot pot oil recovered from the big iron bucket into a clean pot next to it for weighing, and the waiter took the bottom of the pot from here and walked into the restaurant lobby.
The hot pot restaurant involved was once recognized as "assured hot pot restaurant"
The reporter looked up official website, the theme hot pot of Chongqing Captain, and saw that this company has more than 20 direct stores, 8 cooperative stores and more than 100 franchise chain stores, which are distributed in 16 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities such as Chongqing, Sichuan, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei. The reporter inquired about the website of Chongqing Hot Pot Association and found that on November 4, 2017, Chongqing Hot Pot Association, together with the Commercial Committee, Food and Drug Administration and other departments, identified the first batch of "assured hot pot restaurants" in Chongqing, and the captain’s theme hot pot Beicheng Tianjie store was among them.
After the video was exposed on January 10th, on January 11th, Chongqing Niannianhao Food Culture Company, which belongs to the hot pot restaurant involved, apologized to consumers through the media, and issued a notice in official website, saying that on the day of the incident, relevant functional departments immediately inspected the hot pot restaurant involved and are currently waiting for the test results. At the same time, the company ordered the captain’s theme hot pot Beicheng Tianjie store to suspend business for rectification, conduct a comprehensive investigation, and organize all stores to investigate immediately. On the afternoon of January 12, the reporter came to this hot pot restaurant and found that it was still open and customers came in and out. At about 7: 00 pm on January 13th, the gate was closed, and a notice board for power outage maintenance was posted at the door. On January 14, the reporter came to the office of Chongqing Niannianhao Food Culture Co., Ltd., which belongs to this hot pot restaurant, and got this reply:
Staff of Chongqing Niannianhao Food Culture Co., Ltd.: "Before handling it, it can only show that we have no problem, and it is no problem for us to check."
journalist: "If there is no problem, how can we rectify it?"
Staff of Chongqing Niannianhao Food Culture Co., Ltd.: "It’s not a rectification. This situation has caused many negative effects on our brand, so we will apologize."
The hot pot restaurant suspected of using recycled oil has been seized.
On January 14th, the hot pot restaurant was sealed by Jiangbei Branch of Chongqing Food and Drug Administration. At present, the local food and drug supervision and public security departments are conducting further investigations on the hot pot restaurants involved.
The store involved collects the pot bottom fee. Legal person: involved in fraud
During the interview, the reporter learned that Chongqing Captain’s theme hot pot Beicheng Tianjie Store will charge a pot bottom fee ranging from 38 yuan to 58 yuan. The legal person believes that if the competent department determines that the use of "swill oil" is established, in addition to violating relevant food safety regulations, the hot pot restaurant involved also constitutes fraud. Legal sources believe that in addition to alleged fraud, the hot pot restaurant involved also violated the relevant provisions of the Food Safety Law.
"Undercover" found that many hot pot restaurants used "swill oil"
This hot pot restaurant is not the only one that uses "swill oil". The food and drug supervision department of Chongqing has accepted the report that three other stores are suspected of using "swill oil". The reporter learned that the exposed picture in the kitchen of Chongqing Captain’s theme hot pot Beicheng Tianjie store was taken by the person in charge of a local legal consulting company who arranged for "undercover" to enter the store and worked for five and a half days. He arranged a total of "undercover" 12 hot pot restaurants. At present, he has mastered the relevant evidence of the other three stores suspected of using "swill oil" and reported it to the Chongqing Food and Drug Administration, and has received three acceptance notices.
There is no technical testing standard for "swill oil", so it is difficult to investigate the law enforcement.
China’s food safety law clearly stipulates that it is forbidden to produce and operate food produced with recycled food as raw materials; At the end of last year, Chongqing Hot Pot Association also issued the "Business Standard", which made it clear that the soup or soup oil consumed by customers should not be recycled for the processing of hot pot bottom materials or soup materials.
Chen Honggang, Deputy Director of Jiangbei Branch of Chongqing Food and Drug Administration：“‘ Hogwash oil ’ Recycling is a very difficult matter for law enforcement investigation, because the first industry is relatively hidden, and the second industry is indeed more difficult for us to obtain evidence, which is often a single oral evidence. Sometimes the evidence is relatively thin when judicial strikes are carried out. At present, there is no detection method and evaluation standard for the oil recovered from hot pot. For example, if it is found to be unqualified, such as peroxide value, such as some heavy metals exceeding the standard, it can only be said that it does not meet the national food safety standards, but this result cannot be said that he used ‘ Hogwash oil ’ 。”
Expert: increase punishment and establish scientific management means
In this regard, legal experts suggest that the penalties for business violations should be increased and the illegal costs should be increased. At present, according to relevant laws and regulations, the general administrative penalty is 100,000 to 150,000 yuan, which is not enough. At the same time, scientific management methods should be established in daily supervision.
Wu Ruqiao, Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Chongqing University Law School.: "All hot pot operators must install relevant monitoring equipment in the kitchen, and install display instruments on every desktop or in the lobby, so that all consumers can see the operating procedures and procedures of the kitchen behind them. I think this can be pushed away. It is definitely good for promoting the development of Chongqing hot pot industry. "