Food Safety Hidden Trouble: Quoting for Qualification

Although the latest survey conducted by the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture on KFC's supplier, Riich Group, showed that the broilers had a normal 45-day slaughter and said the products were qualified. However, after investigation, it was discovered that the raw material used by KFC, the 45-day "fast-turning white chicken", entered the chicken farm from the chicks and slaughtered the broilers, revealing several hidden dangers.

In the veterinary inspection and quarantine procedures that are crucial for the flow of broilers to the market, there are even cases of “walking through” in some areas. Even more shocking is that in Hebei, Shandong and other places, even to spend money to buy animal quarantine certificates.

Chicken raising households: quarantine procedures only take a cut-off point. According to the “Regulations on Animal Quarantine Management” reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Agriculture on January 4, 2010, “the animal veterinary products sold or transported shall be the official veterinarian of the animal health supervision agency at the county level. After passing the quarantine inspection and obtaining the "certificate of animal quarantine", it may leave the place of origin."

Feng Zhichun said that in the section on quality and safety, the work done by the agricultural and animal husbandry regulatory authorities in Chengde County is very detailed. “For feed, the office will regularly or irregularly check. From the start of breeding chickens, strict quarantine and epidemic prevention are carried out, and even eggs are grown. After strict quarantine and epidemic prevention, we will not relax each batch of tests, including whether the residue exceeds the standard."

Feng Zhichun also introduced that from the perspective of safety and quality supervision, at least three processes will follow: chicks are a check, slaughter is a second check, and good processing is a three check. In addition to this, in the breeding process, the quarantine department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry will also conduct spot inspections from time to time. “When it is time for slaughter, the relevant departments go to check. The government does not have such a rule, we have this arrangement on this link. All chicken farmers, we will send people to personally test. Before the slaughter must also be tested, After Sanrong Group (a local large-scale farming and animal husbandry company) has slaughtered, it will also conduct a test before entering the market.”

However, the survey found that: "The inspection is not available. The company has just pulled it straight away. It has not been killed and it has been directly received. (The animal quarantine certificate) The company has opened it directly for you. No sampling, who will give you a random inspection? "The Sanrong Group's contract chicken farmer Hao Weiguo (a pseudonym) in Shangban County, Chengde County, said.

The chicken farmer Sun Guilin (a pseudonym) gave a similar statement. "Same as unchecked, if there is no inspection at all ... ... to the animal quarantine station, hand over the money to pay the money, or ask someone to give it to the past. To the animal quarantine, people will not come to the chicken farm."

Money can buy quarantine inspection evidence, Sun said, soon to be slaughtered, a shed about tens of dollars quarantine fees, pay the money, to give a qualified certificate, the people of the agricultural and animal husbandry departments do not come. “We went to the quarantine station ourselves. For example, tomorrow, the slaughter will be told at noon today. We will take the money, open a quarantine, and if the quarantine doesn’t quarantine, we will only get some money.”

Hao Weiguo even said, "The company has given you a notice. Which day or day to go, you take this number to the quarantine station. They don't care. If you are big enough, they leave. The chicken is sick, and San Rong pulls. Go, but if you die at San Rong, it will not count."

In Chengde County Farming and Animal Husbandry Bureau, Feng Zhichun also ordered staff to provide 4 copies of different animal quarantine certificates. They are the chicks from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, and the local authorities. After the chicks were sent to Chengde County, the quarantine certificates provided by the local animal health supervision agency in Chengde; the quarantine certificate provided by the local animal health supervision agency before the broiler was slaughtered; Before the supermarket, there is also an animal quarantine certificate.

The charges for inspection and quarantine in different places are different in Changyi, Shandong, “If you pay a few dollars, they will give you a list (certificate of animal quarantine).” One local farmer said outspokenly.

Shandong Changyi, which is the seat of Shandong Tyson Foods Co., Ltd. (hereafter referred to as Tyson), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tyson Foods Co., Ltd. in Shandong, where the prosperity of the aquaculture and meat processing industries is beyond imagination. Sen is an important supplier of KFC.

In a town of Changyi City, a farmer who signed a contract with Tyson told Daily Economic News that Tyson would send a sample of the contracted chickens before the slaughter. However, the local inspection and quarantine department The quarantine inspections are inexplicable, and they only need to pay a certain fee.

“This year's standards have been reduced. Last year, every chicken would charge a quarantine fee of one cent. Like this year, I have raised a total of 7,400 chickens, which is more than 400 yuan. But this year's fees are still In the past, some chickens have received 2 cents per chicken in the past.” The farmers said bluntly.

The farmer revealed, “They are coming when we go out and come and come and list according to the number of chickens we have. This list will have to be seen by Tyson. No, no.”

The farmers also stated that the fees collected by the local quarantine departments were collected in a unified manner, and that different regions had different amounts of money to pay. “Not only we are here, but also in other places. In Pingdu (a nearby county-level city), they quarantine a chicken to collect a dime, and an additional fee for excretion is required. 8 cents, and then open a list, so that count, a chicken is to receive a hair eight cents."

Compared with strict charges, the quarantine process seems to be a bit of a go. The farmers said, “The quarantine station is to inform them of the time when our chickens need to be out of the cage and give them money. Then they give a list and they have a quarantine certificate and how many chickens they can write. They don't have any quarantine testing at all."