Chapter 129: A Few Sorrows

"Killers of Life: Eating Foods Containing Sudan Dyes May Be Carcinogenic!"

"Carrefour Group President Sun Zhaolun Calls on the National Food Safety Supervision Department to Include Sudan Dyes in the Ban List!"

"A responsible enterprise, Carrefour Group may pay a loss of 100 million yuan for this!"

Chemical dyes are not food additives!

When will the hygienic standards for the use of food additives be introduced?

"Responsible for the health of customers, Carrefour Group temporarily and urgently removed substandard goods from the shelves!" As Fang Mingyuan expected, the next day, almost 70 percent of the front page headlines of major newspapers in Jinguo were about this incident, and a large number of reports on this matter were also carried out in TV news programs. For a while, people talked about Sudan red change!

And at this time, not only Carrefour Group and Shanghai supermarkets, all supermarkets and shopping malls in the country will take these 15 kinds of goods off the shelves!

Fang Mingyuan looked at the newspaper in his hand, and put down a stone in his heart.

In his previous life, it was not until nearly 10 years later that the Sudan dye incident broke out completely, and the government and the people would really realize the threat of Sudan dyes to human health! Although as early as 1996, that is, one year after Britain and other European countries listed Sudan dyes as prohibited food additives, the "Hygienic Standards for the Use of Food Additives" promulgated by China stipulated that Sudan Dye No. 1 was prohibited from being used as a food additive in food production. However, although the regulations are in place, there are no corresponding standards and identification methods. Moreover, the customs did not require products from other countries to issue a certificate that did not contain "Sudan dyes" when entering China, let alone listed it as a routine testing item.

At that time, the person in charge of commodity quality testing, the largest national comprehensive laboratory in China, had never done Sudan dyes testing in the past ten years, let alone received any request from any unit for Sudan dye testing. Even he himself has never received official standard materials for the identification of Sudan dyes.

Many of the officials in charge of this area even admit that they don't know anything about Sudan red, and they wouldn't even have heard of the term if it weren't for the international outbreak of Sudan red. It doesn't sound ridiculous, but it's true.

At that time, someone said that "Sudan dyes can cause cancer is not news, the news is that in the ten years after the relevant state departments listed Sudan dyes as prohibited food, we have never checked Sudan dyes!"

This is also in line with the practice of China, where there are policies and countermeasures. If we only look at the laws and regulations issued by the government, it can be said that China has a complete legal system, but in actual life, how many laws and regulations can be truly enforced without discount? However, after this uproar, presumably the government departments will have a much deeper impression of the "Sudan Reds"! And the people will also be aware of the crisis in food safety in advance! I believe that the situation will be better than in the previous life. It's worth it to be able to achieve this.

In fact, as early as a year ago, Fang Mingyuan had asked the commodity quality inspection center to test the purchased food for Sudan dyes, and rejected those goods with high Sudan dye content. However, for those products with low Sudan dye content entering supermarkets, he has no way to ban them all before the ban on Sudan dyes is enacted and implemented in European countries led by the United Kingdom. After all, there has never been an indicator of Sudan dyes in the food safety standards stipulated by the state, and the state has not issued official materials on the characterization of Sudan dyes. He can't always ask the commodity quality inspection center to reject these products in their entirety.

Although it is said that in this incident, the Carrefour Group suffered heavy losses, but it has once again created its own image of being responsible for customers and society in front of the Chinese public! I believe that in this way, the citizens will have a higher degree of recognition for the Carrefour supermarket! Moreover, so many heavyweight media reports are also a grand publicity for the Carrefour Group.

And there is also a side benefit of this, tellurium is to give the two giants who have just entered the Chinese market a slap in the face, regardless of their response measures and timeliness, at least they will not become the focus of the media in a short period of time!

"Smack!" Lu Yifan, who was full of anger, slammed the newspaper in his hand on the desk!

"Carrefour, Carrefour, it's all Carrefour!" Lu Yifan gritted his teeth and said, he almost went through the opening of the Caneroun Group's international exhibition store in these newspapers, and most of them did not mention it at all. Only a few local newspapers in Beijing mentioned it on the second page, and yesterday's TV news only gave more than ten seconds in an unimportant time. It can be said that "the publicity effect originally planned by Lu Yifan has not been achieved at all!"

Although it is said that the opening of the International Exhibition Store yesterday had a passenger flow of 28,000 people, a single order of 18,000 times, and a turnover of more than 5 million yuan, which can be described as a good start, but this does not make Lu Yifan happy!

"Store manager, isn't Carrefour Supermarket afraid of causing dissatisfaction among these manufacturers, especially the Heinz Group?" said assistant Zhang Feng softly.

…… Hmph, Carrefour supermarket is very clever. First of all, Hong Kong is still under British rule, and their Commodity Quality Inspection Centre enforces British food standards, and no one can fault it. Moreover, Sudan dyes may cause cancer, and this alone makes Carrefour Group stand on an undefeated position. The more these manufacturers are entangled with the Carrefour Group in this matter, the more embarrassed they will be!" Lu Yifan said with a calm face, "Secondly, all the goods in Carrefour Supermarket are purchased by payment, and this time Sun Zhaolun made it clear that all the goods will be destroyed, and he will not claim compensation from these manufacturers." The goods have been sold to others, and what Carrefour supermarkets want to do with it, that is people's "freedom". Unless these manufacturers can overturn the test results of the commodity quality inspection center, it is useless to say anything!" "As a purchaser, whose goods to buy, how many goods to buy, that is people's "freedom", not to mention, Carrefour supermarket this time there are enough reasons!

"Zhang Feng, how many of these 15 kinds of goods were sold in the store yesterday? Immediately ask the service department to post an announcement to take back these goods and compensate customers for their losses doublely! At the same time, notify the purchasing department and ask them to return all these goods!"

"It's worth about 160,000. I'll do it!" Zhang Feng stood up and said. Looking at Zhang Feng's back, Lu Yifan secretly rejoiced that the response he took yesterday was timely, and the loss of more than 100,000 yuan was nothing.

At this time, in a secluded teahouse in the capital, Li Mingji and the four of them sat together again.

"This hand of the Carrefour Group is really ruthless!" Li Mingji gritted his teeth. Although they also took timely measures yesterday, the sales volume of these fifteen products is not large, and even if it is double the compensation to customers, it is not a big deal. But the problem is that the Carrefour Group actually promised that all these 15 kinds of goods, as long as they were purchased within one year, as long as there was a shopping receipt from Carrefour supermarket, they would unconditionally return double the purchase price. This is quite a large amount of money! Li Mingji was heartbroken.

"What is the reaction of the Chinese supermarkets in Shanghai to this?" Hua Liang looked at Bu Hua Dao, Jiaohua He has a friend in Shanghai who also works in the supermarket industry.

The same notice was posted. Jiaohua sighed and said, "Those people can be regarded as completely advancing and retreating with the Carrefour Group!"

"Won't they be heartbroken by the loss of the pinch?" asked Xu Yan in surprise.

"First of all, the money is certainly not as big as we think! not everyone will keep these receipts for a long time after shopping: secondly, the Carrefour Group has privately promised them that it will compensate them in other ways in the future. So, they don't care about the current interests at all!" Bu Hua said with a wry smile. Carrefour Group has really made great efforts for their supermarket association, and these companies that followed them not only did not suffer in this incident, but gained a good reputation in Shanghai and its surrounding provinces and cities. His friend, when he talked about it today, not only did he not feel sad, but he sounded bright.

"Okay, a few people, don't be sad, this matter is already like this, we are just sad, and we can't change the reality! I believe that Lu Yifan is more depressed than you and me now, have you seen today's newspaper? There are only a few items about the consumption of the opening of the Caneroun Group's international exhibition store, and they are all on unimportant pages, hehe, he did all the useless work a few days ago!" Xu Yan sneered, " Just entered Huaxia, let the Carrefour Group knock a slap on the stick, and I can't say anything, it is estimated that I am angry now!"

The four of them couldn't help laughing, when this person is not happy, if he can see someone who is worse than himself, this heart can be balanced a lot.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the situation now does not allow us to hesitate any longer, and when the store of the Vorma Group opens, our situation will be even more difficult, and we must discuss a countermeasure for the survival of our respective companies. What are we going to do in the future? Do we join the Carrefour Group, or do we simply join forces and form an alliance with the four families, and we don't necessarily have no power to fight with them!" Bu Hua knocked on the table and said in a deep voice. (To be continued.) !~!