What are the "food terror" incidents?

1996 British "mad cow disease": In March of that year, the British government announced that the number of patients with CJD was related to mad cow disease, and the whole UK and even Europe "talked about the color change of cattle". In the next few months, beef sales in several EU countries dropped by 70%. Britain slaughtered more than 4 million cows, with a loss of up to 3 billion pounds. In 200 1 year, mad cow disease occurred in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and other countries, and the sales of beef and its products in EU countries suffered heavy losses.

1999 dioxin pollution in Belgium: vickers feed company in Belgium sold dioxin-contaminated feed to thousands of farms and poultry companies in Europe, resulting in serious pollution of fresh meat and deep-processed meat products in the European union, and many countries, including the United States, banned the import of meat products from the European union. In the same year, hundreds of children in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France became seriously unwell because of drinking contaminated canned Coca-Cola, and the governments of the four countries ordered all Coca-Cola on sale to be removed from the shelves.

"Listeria monocytogenes" in France in early 2000: Listeria monocytogenes was found in cooked meat sauce and pig's tongue produced by France Goodrich Food Company. The crisis involved China 19 provinces, resulting in at least 9 deaths, including 2 newborns.

Europe September 200 1: Foot-and-mouth disease broke out in Britain, Ireland and other countries one after another, and the crisis lasted 1 1 month. The meat market in EU countries shrank in an all-round way, and farmers and shopping malls suffered heavy losses.

China "Jinhua Ham" case in 2003: In order to avoid the breeding of mosquitoes and flies, three ham production enterprises in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province added the highly toxic pesticide dichlorvos in the production process.

"Fuyang Milk Powder Incident" in China in 2004: Because of the sale of poor quality milk powder without nutrition, the children who were fed died or suffered from severe malnutrition (commonly known as "big-headed dolls"), China started the safety project of the whole food industry.

China "Chenhualiang Incident" in 2004: In that year, moldy rice eliminated by the State Grain Depot was found on the market in more than 0/0 grain and oil wholesale markets nationwide. Although the price is more than 30% cheaper than ordinary rice, it contains aflatoxin which can cause liver cancer.

"Sudan Red Incident" in 2005: In that year, the British Food Standards Agency warned consumers that eating food containing Sudan red pigment would cause cancer, and then the China government launched a dragnet investigation, and found that there were as many as 6 18 kinds of imported foods or raw materials that might contain Sudan red in China, including some KFC and Heinz products sold in China. The following year, "red duck eggs" and Chili noodles containing Sudan red were found in China market.

In 2006, British chocolate contained "Salmonella": Cadbury, a world-famous chocolate food company, polluted chocolate with sewage discharged from its cleaning equipment, causing 42 people to be poisoned by eating chocolate contaminated with Salmonella. The company urgently recalled millions of chocolates in the European Union and around the world.

"Sanlu milk powder incident" in China in 2008: The infant formula milk powder produced by Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group was found to be contaminated by melamine because of the sudden increase in the number of infants seeking treatment for urinary calculi all over the country, and then many domestic milk powder enterprises were found to be contaminated by melamine.

In 2008, Irish pigs were contaminated with dioxins: On February 6, 65438, the Irish government reported that during a routine inspection, the Irish Food Safety Bureau found that the slaughtered pigs were contaminated with dioxins, and the dioxin content was 80-200 times the upper limit of the European Union safety standard. Some pork may have been exported to 25 countries, including the United States and China.

The food safety incidents listed here are just the "tip of the iceberg" of such incidents that broke out in recent years, but they have exposed the embarrassing role that food plays at our table now. The essence of food is to eat safe food. If food is not safe, other factors such as nutrition will lose their meaning and value, so "food safety" has become a very important topic in today's world. Learning point