Gore looked suspiciously at Mickey next to Sioux City.

Mitch is a perennial career lobbyist for Congress, and Sioux City contacts Gore through his company. American politicians like big oil companies, but trust lobbyists. Mitch used to be a staff member for the senators, and he was familiar with Gore, and he introduced interest groups to Gore more than once. There are also lobbyists who are simply retired senators or representatives, or well-known experts and professors.

Mitch nodded to Gore, motioning for him to listen.

Gore then quietly faced Su Cheng and said with a smile: "Chairman Su, please speak." ”

"We've built a new lab to support environmental organizations. Fortunately, valuable discoveries were made in the lab very quickly. After a brief pause, he said, "The discovery of the security crisis that I am talking about is valuable, and it is related to the health of millions of people around the world, so I think it has great political value. ”

The health of millions of people, which meant hundreds of thousands of votes for Gore, was intrigued, asking, "What kind of discovery?"

Mickey laughed twice and said, "Chairman Su thinks it makes more sense to hand over this matter to you." And Dahua is also hoping for some additional returns. ”

"Oh?"

Sioux City said softly: "Health problems are mainly concentrated in three regions, the United States, China, Taiwan, and several countries in Europe. I don't care about the United States and Europe, but I hope that you, as an environmentalist and a U.S. senator, will pay attention to the health crisis in Taiwan. ”

"There's no problem with that. Gore narrowed his eyes.

"I hope you can urge, or rather, remind Taiwan's leaders to come under stricter scrutiny of environmental issues and make a difference," Sioux continued. ”

Gore said succinctly, "Yes." ”

"In your name, I want to praise Dahua Environmental Protection Organization and support it as much as possible. I want this friendship to stay with you, whether you become president of the United States or not. Sioux City knew he couldn't make it, but the power of vice president was enough, and 20 Chapter 297 Security Crisis 00 years ago Gore had far more power than George W. Bush until he was in Florida.

This time, Gore was slightly hesitant. Friendship or something, in American parlance, is to owe you a favor, and generally speaking, they are still more committed to keeping their promises. There was also not much pressure on Mr. Gore, who could not decide on the praise and support for Dahua's environmental group, which, from a politician's point of view, would be linked by political opponents once it was announced.

Mitch laughed and explained, "Dahua Environmental is registered in the United States. ”

"Oh, that's no problem. Gore suddenly relaxed. During 1991, the blockade was almost non-existent, and the U.S. government had long since stopped discussing the matter, but would-be senators should be careful. Although he was not destined to do it.

Sioux City looked at Mickey. This time, the latter nodded to Sioux City and signaled for the two to reach an agreement. On Capitol Hill, contracts are a very boring thing, and perhaps more than half of the lawmakers can't memorize the U.S. Constitution, but everyone knows not to sign them.

The evidence left on paper is the most annoying.

After making sure that Gore understood and agreed to his request, Su Cheng continued: "Our Dahua laboratory, when testing some food from Taiwan, found a strange bump on the gas chromatograph. You know, a gas chromatograph is like an electrocardiogram, each of its ups and downs represents a substance, and if it's a national food safety testing agency, they usually only care about the ups and downs that represent known toxic substances, and don't compare other unknown substances. Understandably, there was a lot of work to detect the material at the location, and there were cases of contamination of the test sample, but in any case, our inspectors compared this strange bulge ......"

Hearing that it was food, Gore's attention was already extremely high.

Taiwan and Japan often export U.S. food, and compared with food safety problems in the U.S., the accidents that have occurred in imported food are obviously low-risk and high-return items.

Under Gore's burning gaze, Su Cheng said in the language of the statement: "Out of curiosity, our staff spent nearly a month of work to compare this substance, and finally found a strong carcinogen, plasticizer. It includes a large number of phthalic acids, abbreviated as DEHP, which are compounds that are banned from being added to food. But according to our estimates, more than 100,000 people around the world apply or consume it every day. ”

As an environmentalist, Gore knew what that meant, and he felt it was inappropriate to express his views in ecstasy, so he said in a mournful tone and shining eyes: "This is a large-scale food safety problem." ”

"It's global. "At first, our researchers suspected that the food was contaminated by the packaging, but because of a sense of responsibility, they spent a lot of time tracing the source of the plasticizer, and finally found that it came from a food additive "clouding agent" The other party uses plasticizer to replace palm oil, which can reduce costs, unfortunately, due to the wide application of additives containing strong carcinogens, a large number of drinks and foods use it." ”

"You're talking about 100,000 copies a day?"

"We estimate that there are millions of sales a day, for years, maybe 10 years. ”

"10 years! 10 years without finding out?"

"It's a pity, but yes. ”

"Is this additive still on sale?"

"It's still on sale, and because of its cheap price, the company has become the largest producer of additives in Taiwan, and their products are used in hundreds of beverages, in addition to jams, dairy products, fruit powders, instant noodles and some "medicine" products, the hardest hit are "sports" drinks and juices. Su Cheng took out a bottle of common "Transport" drink from his bag, put it on the table and said: "I bought it casually downstairs, and it uses Taiwanese additives." ”

Gore's face changed slightly, and it seemed that he or his family had drunk it. His voice was a little lower, and he asked, "What kind of results will the plasticizer in it cause?"

"In addition to causing cancer, studies have shown that it is also an environmental hormone that raises the body's estrogen," Su Cheng added. It leads to sexual dysfunction in men, low fertility rates, and a higher chance of giving birth to girls after pregnancy. Finally, it is the most damaging to infants and young children, which can lead to problems such as male shortness. ”

"What?"

"Uh...... A lot of plasticizers means more girls are born. If infants and young children are exposed to plasticizers, it will cause male ** short and female precocious puberty. ”

Gore was completely stunned, and finally said solemnly: "This is a global crisis...... Well, I'll organize people to confirm this matter immediately, and I need Dahua Environmental Protection's testing information......"

He shook Su Cheng's hand and said, "If this matter is confirmed, Dahua Environmental Protection will become famous." You did a good thing. ”

Sioux City thanked and said, "You can make an appeal to address this global crisis." ”

Gore's excited pants were about to fall off.

Su Cheng knew that the matter was certain just by looking at his expression.

Without Sioux City's involvement, the famous plasticizer incident would not have been discovered by a female inspector who cared about her son's food safety until 2011. By that time, plasticizers had been illegally added for 30 years. According to scholars' research, in addition to being highly carcinogenic, the worst and most impressive aspect of plasticizers is sexual dysfunction, and considering that there are so many foods with plasticizers added and so widely sold, it may be possible to understand why there are more and more beautiful men in the world.

Gore shook Sioux City's hand again, then sent him out the door, and went into a hurry to work.

Sioux City stretched, parted ways with Mickey, and went to Washington, D.C.

Shu Lan has graduated from school and is in the internship period, so she also has time to hang out with him.

It only took half a day for Gore to confirm the authenticity of the Dahua Environmental Protection Organization's test, and immediately joined hands with Dahua Environmental Protection to hold a press conference, which can be called vigorous and resolute.

U.S. senators and representatives are not alone. In order to make the 100 senators and 435 members of the House aware of and confirm the vast amount of special work, Capitol Hill has a huge team of more than 30,000 assistants to serve them. Among them, there are tens of thousands of senators, with an average of 100 assistants per senator. Some of them are personal assistants to senators, some serve committees of senators, some serve permanent bodies, or serve as assistants.

In cases such as plasticizers, Gore was naturally firing on all cylinders, and not only his assistants were dispatched, but several committees were not idle. He didn't want to share this "secret" with others, otherwise, he could have done it with thousands of people.

That night, news about plasticizers spread around the world faster than the tsunami.

When Wang Keling saw the news, he was stunned for a moment and didn't realize anything.

It wasn't until he saw Gore's appeal: "Please ask the Taiwan authorities to severely punish and raise environmental standards." I was suddenly dumbfounded.

Formosa Plastics' environmental protection standards have always been the lowest on the island, which means that as long as the Taiwan authorities raise environmental protection standards, Formosa Plastics may fall short of the standards across the board.

This lowest-cost approach to business comes from Wang Yongqing's management philosophy. He has a famous fishbone theory, which has been regarded as a classic by the entrepreneurs of the township in China until the 21st century: a fish should be eaten more, fish bones and fish slices should be analyzed, the constituent elements of various affairs should be continuously decomposed, all the factors affecting the cost should be found out, and every drop of oil and every gram of raw material should be carefully calculated to achieve a specific, clear and detailed like a fish bone. Then, each bone is "slimmed" and strives to achieve maximum economic efficiency with a very small investment.

Wang Yongqing, known as the god of management, relied on the accumulation of traditional Chinese people to create the Formosa Plastics Kingdom.

Few people expected that the kingdom's equipment would become obsolete. Whether the environmental protection conditions that exceed the standard can truly ensure the safety of the environment and workers?

Regardless of whether Formosa Plastics has its own Haicang plan, Sioux City will do everything it can to raise its standards.

…… (To be continued.) ！！！