Chengdu: Bird's Nest unlabeled blood Yan and ordinary bird's nest a price?

According to media reports, the Zhejiang Industry and Commerce Bureau recently announced that the content of nitrite in the "blood swallow" exceeded the standard, and even proposed that the market not only "bloody swallow" 100% fraud, even ordinary Baiyan also have fake! What is the status of Chengdu's bird's nest market? Yesterday, the reporter went to a number of shopping malls and Chinese herbal medicine wholesale markets to conduct surveys. Most of the instant bird's nests did not label their nutrients. And this processed bird's nest, whether the nutrition inside is intact, nutrition experts are skeptical.

“Closed Eyes” Buy Bird's Nest Best Selling Before and After Chinese New Year Yesterday, Chengdu Evening News reporter visited Chengdu's Chinese herbal medicine wholesale market and discovered that according to the grade of bird's nest, the wholesale price ranges from 13,000 yuan per kilogram to 23,000 yuan. Most origins originate from Malaysia. , Indonesia and domestic Hainan, imported into the Mainland through Guangdong.

Before and after the Chinese New Year, the sale of bird's nests has reached a peak period of five or six kilograms per month. Even in this off-season, there are sales of two or three kilograms per month. "A shopkeeper revealed.

Small bird's nest profits According to a shopkeeper, the wholesale price imported from Guangdong was 15,000 yuan per kilogram, the wholesale price was 18,000 yuan, while the retail price was 21,000 yuan.

Ready-to-eat bird's nest is more sought-after Yesterday, in Tongrentang of Zongfu Road, reporters saw large and small finished bird's nests on shelves in the “health products” area. The clerk introduced that this type of ready-to-drink finished bird's nest is more popular with consumers than the bird's nest that it is required to cook.

Chaos 1 boss took out two kinds of goods there is a real fake reporter dressed as a customer walked into a bird's nest shop, the female owner is very active to come up with their own bird's nest, the reporter asked: “Is the real thing?” The female owner said, absolutely It's a real deal, and fakes simply don't dare to put it up. The reporter also asked: "Do you have fakes here?" "Yeah!" The female shop owner immediately removed a small box from the cabinet where the bird's nest was placed. "This is a counterfeit bird's nest."

By comparison, the real bird's nest had a yellowish color, and the fake bird's nest was pure white, like a layer of white paint. Later, the reporter smelled a fake bird's nest with a pungent plastic smell. The reporter observed that the material that made up the fake bird's nest was like a fan, and it was cut off with a little press.

"Why should I hide fake goods?" the reporter asked. The shop owner quickly said that it was never sold, but it was used to identify the customer.

Chaos 2 blood swallow and ordinary bird nest a price?

During the visit, the reporter found that there are four bird's nest shops selling red bird's nests. What surprises the reporter is that in one of the stores, the price of an ordinary bird's nest is the same as the boss's so-called "red blood swallow", which is 18,000 yuan per kilogram.

"Isn't the blood swallow more expensive than an ordinary bird's nest?" The boss replied in response to a reporter's question: "The blood swallows sold outside are very expensive, but they are very cheap here." Here, she also repeatedly stressed that her own blood Yan is not dyed and can stand the test.

There are no nutrition labels in the four instant bird nests in Ito-Yokado supermarket. The reporter only found the "Blanco" brand rock sugar bird's nest and sugar-free bird's nest, which is priced at 319 yuan in a 6-vial box. Later, the reporter found on the Internet that in the "Blanc's official flagship store", only the sugar candy bird's nest has sold more than 400 pieces.

In addition, the reporter also found gift boxes in the small supermarkets, "Happy Temple Birds Nest" and "Fo Yan Brothers Bird's Nest," a box of 6 vials, about 150 yuan.

Although the prices are different, the reporter found that the bird nests of these brands have no food nutrition labels and do not indicate the content of elements such as protein and water. On the outer package, the marked ingredients are: water, rock sugar, bird's nest; solids: not less than 20g/100g and so on.

Experts point:

Unsuspected nutritional value of the label was suspicious Yesterday, the reporter interviewed Hu Wen, Director of Nutrition Department of West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Hu Wen said that ready-to-eat bird's nest is a finished product that has been processed through the factory, and protein may be lost during the process. “If there is no food nutrition label on the outer packaging of these products, how much nutrients are contained in the product and how much nutrients consumers spend on nutrition are unknown.”

"This kind of product belongs to food, whether it is health care products, it should be labeled with nutrition ingredients." Hu Wen suggested.

City Food and Drug Administration:

The requirements for health foods should be higher. The “Nutrition Label Management Practices” implemented in the year 2008 requires that most food products must have nutrition labels on their packaging, but exclude health food products. Why? “We don’t put health foods in the “norms” because the requirements for health foods are more stringent than the general foods.” The staff of Chengdu Food and Drug Administration told the reporter that the new “Regulations on the Supervision and Management of Health Products” are still temporary. In the absence of introduction, they will act in accordance with the "Measures for the Management of Health Food Products" for a while, and may have more detailed specifications for health food after the introduction of the new "Regulations."

It is reported that in 1996, the “Measures for the Management of Health Food Products” promulgated by the Ministry of Health stipulated that health food labels must comply with relevant national standards and requirements, and indicate the names and contents of functional ingredients. However, due to the fact that the functional ingredients cannot be clearly defined under the existing technical conditions, the name of the raw material related to the health care function must be indicated.