Chapter 33: We're No Problem Frying Oil (Part 3)
The "fried throttle" incident was hyped on the Internet, but in reality, it was calm, as if it had never happened, it was not reported on TV, it was not published in newspapers, and all media except the Internet did not report on it.
At this time, it coincided with the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and local television stations and related media all reported on the posture of the Chinese Olympic athletes.
But all this is a fake, a fake appearance before the mountain rain is about to come and the wind fills the building.
Health bureaus across the country have been notified to conduct secret tests on McDonald's and KFC's fast food restaurants to see whether the "fried throttle" incident is an individual incident or a group incident, and whether all fast food restaurants have this phenomenon.
However, whether it is an individual incident or a group incident, the health bureaus and municipal leadership teams across the country have received notices to deal with them in a low-key manner, and not to cause international incidents at this juncture.
The reason is very simple: China is negotiating bilateral trade relations with the United States, and the Chinese Government hopes that the United States will grant China PNTR status. Therefore, this "fried throttle" incident, which is related to two Fortune 500 companies in the United States, must be handled in a low-key manner.
As a senior domestic official said in private: Chinese people have been eating fried fritters for thousands of years, and nothing has happened. McDonald's and Kentucky's frying oil is much cleaner than the frying oil. It's not a big deal!
Third-party monitoring agencies hired by McDonald's and Kentucky Chicken sampled two fast food restaurants in Chu City and fast food restaurants across the country, and did not find "arsenic", a carcinogen, but found "acrylamide", and almost all the fried oil of fast food restaurants sampled contained "acrylamide".
(Acrylamide is a white crystalline chemical that is the raw material for the production of polyacrylamide.) About 90% of acrylamide entering the human body is metabolized and only a small amount is excreted in the urine in its original form. When acrylamide enters the body, it binds to guanine on DNA in the body to form adducts, resulting in damage to the genetic material and genetic mutations. )
However, due to the insufficient epidemiological data and biomarker data of animals and humans, acrylamide has been inconclusive as it causes cancer to humans. According to the survey, there is currently no way to eliminate acrylamide in the diet in the world, so the two companies naturally selectively ignore it.
Later, a third-party monitoring agency hired by McDonald's and Kentucky Chicken secretly sampled the frying oil in Lin Feng's fast food restaurants, but to the disappointment of the two companies, the frying oil in all of Lin Feng's fast food restaurants was clean and free of any impurities.
Looking at the evaluation report on the fast food chain on the display screen, the presidents of the two companies shook their heads repeatedly.
"Crazy, crazy, this man must be crazy. How can there be a reason why the frying oil in a fast food restaurant is changed every six hours!" McDonald's president Jim Cantalupo couldn't figure out how Lin Feng would do business, he calculated the cost and benefits of Lin Feng, and the profit was only about 0.5%, which is a business that any boss who is based on making money will never do.
"Chinese are crazy!" muttered David Novak, president of KentuckChicken.
At this time, with the end of the medal and gold medal projects of the Chinese Olympic team, the attention of netizens has returned to the "fried throttle" incident, and they have called on the relevant departments of the state to give everyone an explanation.
Three days later, an intensifying wave of protests finally forced the state to hold a press conference.
At the meeting, the Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China cautiously warned everyone that after more than 1,230 repeated sampling across the country, the "fried throttle" incident is an individual phenomenon, and no carcinogen such as "arsenic" has been found in the remaining nearly 1,000 McDonald's and KFC chain stores. Because I appeal to everyone not to panic, you can eat it with confidence.
At the same time, McDonald's and KFC also held a press conference to refute the carcinogens in the frying oil of all fast food chains that are rumored on the Internet, and explained in detail that the oil filter powder filters impurities in the frying oil and absolutely meets China's "Hygienic Standards for the Use of Food Additives", so please rest assured. The presence of carcinogens in frying oil is definitely only an individual phenomenon, and it is by no means the cause of oil filter.
At the same time, all Chinese consumers are reminded that the number of people who eat McDonald's and KFC chicken in the world is hundreds of millions, and there has not been a single case of frying oil.
Regarding the statement of the Ministry of Health, McDonald's and Kentucky Chicken, the majority of netizens do not agree. Instead, take Lin Feng's fast food restaurant as a comparison - Weishenme Lin Feng's fast food restaurant has no problem with frying oil, but as a Fortune 500 super company, carcinogens will occur, whether it is the use of oil filter powder to cause this problem. And strongly urge McDonald's and KFC to eliminate the use of oil filter powder to filter frying oil.
In response to this question from netizens, the Ministry of Health, McDonald's, and Kentucky Chicken are extremely embarrassed. In his heart, he could only secretly scold Lin Feng, a pervert, how to make money by changing the frying oil every six hours on average.
If you don't make money, what fast food restaurant do you open!
At the same time, many netizens have called on fast-food restaurants to announce their know-how that no carcinogens have been detected in their weishenme frying oil. In response to the appeal of many netizens, Lin Feng secretly hated the Ministry of Health's secrecy on key issues, so he announced his method of changing the frying oil every six hours.
And this is like giving McDonald's and KFC a slap in the face, and many netizens immediately asked McDonald's and KFC to announce the time when they changed the frying oil.
In this regard, McDonald's and KFC were silent and did not answer positively. It's just that the oil filter powder absolutely meets the standards for the use of food additives in any country, and there is absolutely no problem.
For McDonald's and KFC's avoidance, many netizens are even more indignant. Loud calls for the state to enact laws to enforce regulations prohibiting the use of oil filters in frying oil.
The Ministry of Health was embarrassed by this request. The use of filter oil in frying oil is not only used by McDonald's and KFC, but also by almost the vast majority of the catering industry - of course, more frying oil has not been changed - if this set of regulations is forced, the impact on the entire domestic catering industry will be absolutely earth-shattering.
Under the premise of stable, harmonious and steady development, this is absolutely not allowed. However, many netizens have been talking about Lin Feng's fast food chain, and in order to create an absolutely healthy image of fast food restaurants in the hearts of the Chinese people, Lin Feng has been promoting the concept of people-oriented and conscientious fast food restaurants, which makes the Ministry of Health really headache, and even a little angry that Lin Feng does not know the general situation.
It seems that he is going to talk to the owner of this fast food restaurant. -- A high-ranking official secretly gave an order.