The Consumer Council announced yesterday (17th) that it tested 24 prepackaged and 36 non-prepackaged meatballs, and found that none of the 10 lobster ball samples were found to have crustacean genes; as for beef balls, pigs were detected in many samples. or chicken genes.
The Director-General of the Consumer Council, Huang Fengxian, said on a radio program this morning (18th) that some religious people cannot eat pork, but beef is mixed with pig ingredients. The package of lobster balls listed lobster ingredients, but they were absent , the criticism damages the consumer's right to know, and may violate the trade description regulations, and there are still beef made of 100% beef, so it depends on whether the merchant is "authentic". Or the fact that the retailer does not know the ingredients of the product is not an excuse to evade criminal responsibility. "After all, the product you are selling is one or the same product, the source of production, and the ingredients are all responsible."
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Huang Fengxian said on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millennium Times" that in the past, I noticed that people questioned what meat was in the meatballs and whether there was cow in the beef balls. Therefore, this time, 60 types of meatballs were tested, but the results were not satisfactory. Among them, 10 types of meatballs were not satisfactory. Lobster balls, all of which cannot be detected with crustacean genes, that is, they do not contain shrimp, crab, or lobster. As for the 20 types of beef and beef tendon balls, 13 types contain pork and chicken, including those with the lowest proportion of cattle genes. Remember the Wonton Noodles Premium Beef Balls, the proportion of cow genes is only 13%, and the remaining 87% are chicken genes.
The Director-General of the Consumer Council, Wong Fung-han.
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She said, "People with religious beliefs are even more worried. If you can only eat beef, or only eat pork, if you eat meatballs in the noodles, it is mixed with pork. In fact, they are not ideal, because there are 12 types of noodles, and in terms of ratio, the most serious type is 43% beef and 57% pork." But she stressed that there are still beef made of 100% beef. , so it depends on whether the merchant is "authentic", describing "the right to know is a very important consumer right."
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Huang Fengxian pointed out that one of the prepackaged lobster balls listed lobster ingredients, but the final test results showed that all the crustacean genes were absent, and the criticism compromised consumers' right to know. It's so tight", warning the manufacturer that it may have violated the Trade Description Regulations, "It's a matter of having a reasonable expectation, it's just a matter of living in the way, the name of a pill, I have an understanding of it myself, it's the vast majority of or Most of the meat content and ingredients are made from this kind of meat.”
She also mentioned that there are two other products that are cleverly labeled as "lobster-flavored balls" and "imitation lobster balls", that is, only lobster-flavored, not made from real lobsters, "This one is based on the information disclosed above, and the consumption of It would be nice to talk to someone else, because at least you can listen to me, I'm not a real lobster."
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Some manufacturers said that they put the wrong product, cuttlefish into the wrong squid, and some retailers even claimed to have no knowledge of the ingredients. Huang Fengxian emphasized that this cannot be absolved: "Under the product description, of course, there must be a reasonable procedure. In a value chain, every manufacturer, distributor, and retailer, you have a responsibility to check clearly, whether the product you are selling is one or the same product, the source of production, and the ingredients. responsibility."
Wong Ka Woo, President of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Drinks, also said that the Consumer Council's survey is quite surprising to the catering industry, and the catering industry, especially front-line restaurants, generally collect food through suppliers or "demolition", while they The goods are picked up from the importer, which is described as "one heavy and one heavy". "The restaurant is already the third and fourth. At the restaurant level, it is basically impossible to get the product to go to the laboratory by yourself. On the one hand, the ingredients are purely trust in the products provided by the supplier.” He believes that the responsibility is not at the restaurant level, and urges the authorities to supervise from the source.
He also pointed out that many restaurants have begun to use the method of "imitation lobster balls" to avoid criminal liability, and took coffee as an example, "Nanshan coffee does not have the ingredients of Nanshan, and they all use Nanshan flavor, which is the method of Nanshan style. ”, emphasizing that restaurants advertise with these high-priced names in order to attract customers.
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