The whistle of the Hermes sounded, and the beautiful and low trills made the wrought iron railing on the observation deck in the VIP waiting area vibrate with it.

"The ship is leaving, Clark, have a good trip!" Scrooge shook Clark's hand and said to him, "Have a good rest these days on the ship, because you'll be busy when you get there." The market over there in Europe is up to you. ”

"Don't worry, Mr. MacDonald, I will do my best." Clark said to Scrooge. For this line, Clark is still very confident. Farming in Europe was not yet fully industrialized, and Clark felt that it would be a bit difficult to defeat such a low-level opponent purely economically. The real difficulty lies in how to deal with the backlash of protectionism among Europeans. Once the fully industrialized breeding enterprises and large-scale industrial food processing and manufacturing industries enter Europe, it is almost impossible not to cause a huge impact on the small workshop-style food enterprises in Europe, and at that time, out of protectionist considerations, MacDonald Foods will definitely be disturbed.

But it won't be a big deal. Because even if it is a qiēshun lì, it still takes time for a new pig farm or chicken farm in Europe to be put into production. In the meantime, Scrooge should have already caused a similar food safety storm in Europe, according to the plan. At that time, most of those affected enterprises should have become infamous in the previous turmoil, and their situation will naturally not be sympathetic to the society, and they will not be able to set off much storm.

And, in order not to provoke the Europeans too much, the MacDonald's consortium's expansion is also more modest and subtle than before. According to Scrooge and Clark's agreement, the food factories and farms they will set up in Europe this time will not even be labeled "MacDonald", they will not be MacDonald's sole proprietorship, or even MacDonald's holding company, MacDonald is only one of their shareholders.

"In this way, we can pull a lot of influential guys to our side and form an alliance of interests. Unity, a qiē, the strength that can be united, can be invincible. And...... You also know that there will definitely be a big war in Europe in the future, and we will definitely withdraw our funds from Europe before the war destroys everything. If these companies are wholly owned or controlled by us, our withdrawal will be particularly conspicuous, and perhaps, it will also bring all kinds of trouble. And if we were just ordinary shareholders, it would be much easier and much more inconspicuous to retreat. As for the fear of losing control of the business, this is not a problem at all. We only need to have one or two key companies in our hands. For example, we can only be ordinary shareholders of all food processing enterprises, but the factories that manufacture various food additives for them must be our sole proprietorship. In the same way, those farms can also be joint ventures, not controlled by us, but the feed mills are in our hands. So. Even if we are not the controlling party of every company, the entire interest group will still be under our control. At that time, Scrooge had discussed it with Clark.

"Mr. MacDonald, goodbye!" Clark said goodbye to the restructuring again, and then began boarding the ship along the VIP lane. By this time, the passengers of the third and second classes of the ship had already boarded the ship, and the gangways for them to get on board had been put away. Only for first-class guests, a steel ladder leading directly to the deck is still connected.

Clarke, with his entourage, climbed onto the high deck of the Hermes, turned around, waved at Scrooge, and walked into the cabin......

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After Clark left, Scrooge was extra busy. Clark was now in charge of a lot of the work in North America, and although Greystone was already able to walk on his own, and the servants took good care of him, which freed Dorothea to manage more of the family's affairs, it was still understaffed. So Scrooge had to ask a cousin named Jackson from Catherine to help him manage some of the day-to-day affairs of MacDonald's food.

Today, McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceuticals has a wide range of drugs that are tested by Ohio, including those classified as Level II prescription drugs. Lo. Because, in Scrooge's current plane, this thing even stayed on the drug list until the seventies of the twentieth century.

After the testing of the drug product is completed, the food safety inspection begins. According to the regulations established by the State of Ohio, food companies can send their products to the Ohio designated inspection agency for inspection, and if they pass the inspection, they will be issued a food safety inspection certificate. And the company can also print the corresponding safe food logo on the packaging of its products. and get tax deductions. Of course, such products are also subject to agreeing to allow the Ohio State Assembly's Drug and Food Safety Committee to conduct unannounced spot checks on the quality of their products at any time.

Of course, in order to avoid market turmoil caused by one-size-fits-all, Ohio does not prohibit food from being sold in Ohio without a guò inspection, only that they are not allowed to use the safe food label, and there is no corresponding tax deduction. At the same time, Ohio also defines the fraudulent use of safe food labels as fraud. Heavy fines will be imposed, and criminal liability will be pursued. At the same time, Ohio is encouraging residents to expose fraudulent use of food safety signs, promising that whistleblowers will be kept confidential and rewarded with a one-half fine.

McDonald Foods' various products, such as a large number of Clenbuterol hydrochloride and copper sulfate as additives to raise a bodybuilder, covered with pimple meat, is simply compared with a certain actor governor in later generations of records of time constantly refreshed, and now the slaughter time has been compressed from an astonishing 163 days to an even more amazing 126 days of big fat pigs with no fat. and the unfortunate death of dead pork with starch, water, oil, and some meat in a not very good position, plus the use of Sudan dyes to tone the color, with various spices to suppress the odor, and the use of sodium nitrite to fix the color and preservatives. There are other red-and-cheek sausages that look appetizing (with a lot of lovely Sudan dyes and sodium nitrite added), as well as various Italian pastas that are fumigated and decolorized with guò sulphur dioxide and then preserved with formaldehyde. These things were sent for inspection, then they were tested in accordance with the passage of lì, and then they were stamped with "safe food" on the packaging and began to be sold in the market.

It's not that the testing agency intentionally released the water, but because these additives are legal in Ohio and throughout the United States. At least at the time these norms were developed, these things were not banned. What, you ask, the norms don't even prohibit these things, so what exactly do they prohibit? Well, there's a lot of stuff that gets into the ban. For example, various amalgamides used to preservate milk, and cheese produced from its by-products (soluble proteins in milk denature and settle when they encounter mercury ions, a heavy metal. The capitalists' method of dealing with the sedimentation was also very simple, filtering and separating the sediment, and then - the sedimented dregs were made into cheese and sold, and as for the filtered supernatant, it was naturally the milk to be sold, and anyway, no one measured the protein content of the milk at that time, and the common people only needed to drink the taste of milk - so that these conscientious capitalists obtained at once two products, milk and cheese, and neither of them was almost corrupt) cinnabar (oxygen. Change. mercury), formaldehyde sodium bisulfite (hanging white block) used to whiten gypsum powder to gain weight of flour, sulfuric acid used to make wine appear stronger, copper carbonate used to make tea leaves less susceptible to mildew, and ...... made from moldy corn Compared to all this mess, to be honest, Scrooge's business is really full of discipline. It is a model of food safety.

In addition to Scrooge's MacDonald Foods, there were also a number of companies whose products were inspected, but many of them were found to be problematic in subsequent random inspections and were fined heavily. Among these products, there are two products from foreign countries that have received widespread attention.

The same is sausage from Germany. These red sausages were found to contain a large amount of cinnabar, which is oxygen, during a spot check. Change. Mercury. Cinnabar this thing, as a pigment color is very bright and pure, and the stability is super good, for example, in the Chinese use it to make ink, those with good cinnabar printing mud on rice paper left bright red imprints, even after hundreds of years, are as bright as new. But this thing eats into the stomach, hehe, as a heavy metal compound, as a compound of mercury, it has a special affinity with the sparse group in the protein, and at high concentrations, it can inhibit a variety of enzymes and activities. Mercury entering the body is mainly distributed in the liver and kidney, causing liver and kidney damage, and can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and directly damage the central nervous system. That is, taking this stuff can cause damage to the nerves in the brain. According to modern medicine, nerve cells are not revivable. So, if you eat too much of this stuff, you will become stupid. In ancient times, Chinese medicine often used this thing to "calm the nerves", and even used it to treat the problem of crying in children. When the children ate this, they really didn't cry or make trouble, and they were at peace. In fact, to put it bluntly, the brain is damaged by toxins, the activity of the guide is inhibited, and the activity decreases, that is, it becomes stupid. In addition, the guys who refined the elixir in ancient times often used this thing as the main ingredient. Countless Jia Jing, after eating the elixir refined by this thing, immediately dissolved the corpse and ascended and became an immortal.

The other thing is Iberian ham from Spain. During spot checks, the team easily found ultra-high levels of formaldehyde (also found in Scrooge's macaroni, but at so low levels that it was perfectly up to standard) and mercury salts. The amount is surprisingly large. If you have the money to eat this every day, at most two months, you can eat your IQ like Forrest Gump or later President George W. Bush in the United States.