Imported beef detects lean meat

At 12 o'clock noon yesterday, it was already lunch time. The restaurant was located at Fuhua 3rd Road, Futian District. Super burdock restaurant. It was not a diners who come and go. City Food Safety Supervision Bureau and Public Security Bureau Police Patrol Detachment. The staff of the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau are busy carrying out investigations.

On June 8, the market supervision department seized 441 kilograms of beef without veterinary inspections by animal health supervision agencies. Among them, there were 403 kilograms of imported frozen beef without legal provenance and 38 kilograms of domestic fresh beef. On June 25, the imported beef seized was found to contain ractopamine (its value was 4.72 μg/kg), which was a kind of feed additive for “Clenbuterol”, and there were water injection problems in domestic beef. Yesterday, a number of departments jointly enforced the law and began to dig deeper into the early clues.

Famous restaurant beef with "lean meat"

“Asia's largest and best grade burdock restaurant”, “national food and beverage five-star gold brand enterprise”, and “Guangdong restaurant brand” are located in the Super Bullock Restaurant on Fuhua 3rd Road. There are many medals and advertisements. In fact, the restaurant has a good reputation. A white-collar worker who works in the vicinity, Miss Yu, often sees diners standing in line. Multiple review website information shows that restaurants consume over 100 people per capita.

According to public information, Super Bullock Restaurant is a subsidiary company of Shenzhen Anhua Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. and has been in operation for nearly 7 years. On June 8th, the Municipal Food Safety Supervision Administration's Meat Market Supervision and Administration Office spot-checked the restaurant but seized a batch of imported frozen beef and domestically-made fresh beef from legal sources in the warehouses and kitchens. On the same day, law enforcement officers seized the beef and sent it to the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau for food inspection and quarantine.

On the 8th of June, the restaurant staff promised to submit the legal source of beef, but it was not submitted until the beef problem was found on the 25th.

Wen Guihua, deputy director of the Meat Market Supervision and Administration Institute, said that ractopamine is a kind of “lean meat essence” and is not allowed to be detected. Yesterday morning, the institute united with various departments and went to the restaurant again for law enforcement inspection. Wen Guihua said yesterday that 40 kilograms of domestic pork was found in inspections and 80 kilograms of beef imported from Australia. For pork, the restaurant submitted a quarantine certificate. However, imported beef did not contain the “Inspection Certificate for Entry Goods” and the “Customs Declaration Form for Imported Goods”. Matching problem".

"Imported beef still has unknown origins," he said. They will investigate further and confirm the source of beef.

Managers and buyers say "very innocent"

The first sampling of imported beef has been found to be an unqualified product. But yesterday morning, when law enforcement officers visited the store for the second time, the restaurant staff had argued that it was "innocent." Hwang, a buyer, said that he could not go abroad and buy beef. Beef was bought at the East Gate of Luohu. “You should check the market. We are really embarrassed.” The law enforcement officials told him that as a business owner, it is necessary to understand whether the supplier has the relevant qualifications and to check the inspection and quarantine documents for imported beef. "You have to be responsible to the consumer and sell it on the market. Can you just buy it?"

Another manager surnamed Li said that the law enforcement officers had checked for the second time and the restaurant had clearly provided relevant proofs. The law enforcement officers still felt that the origin of beef was unknown. "How imported, we do not know, you should ask the supplier." She said.

At 12:00 noon yesterday, the police of the Public Security Bureau of the Public Security Bureau of the Municipal Public Security Bureau rushed to the scene. After a simple inquiry on the purchaser Hwang, Hwang was taken away by the police for further inquiries. According to Wen Guihua, deputy director of the Meat Market Supervision and Administration Institute, imported beef seized for the second time will also be submitted for inspection to confirm whether there are “undetectable items”.

Over 10,000 pounds of unknown origin of beef have been investigated

Where is the Super Calf Restaurant from Dongmen? After the Supervising and Supervising Office of the Meat Market seized the kitchen and ice storage room of the Super Calf Restaurant, he could not attend lunch and continued to investigate. At 17 o'clock yesterday, Nansheng Maoyuan, a grain building located in Dongmen, was locked in as the main source.

When a law enforcement officer arrived, a truck of the firm was about to import more than 10 boxes of imported frozen beef. The batch of beef was also “unknown”. "Regularly imported beef must have a Chinese logo." Wen Guihua said, "These beef are only in English and some are three products."

Law enforcement officials opened the firm’s ice bank and visually measured two or three hundred cases of imported frozen beef. The box read “product of USA” and weighed from 15 kg to 40 kg, with no Chinese identity, and “unknown”, total weight. Estimated more than 10,000 kilograms.

As of 22:00 last night, the reporter left the scene, law enforcement officers are still counting the number of inspection and quarantine workers are also taking beef for inspection. Last night, the owner of the firm, Wu Xing, did not show up at all. The high-hanging beef ordered by the firm was also shut down.

According to public data, ractopamine is a type of lean meat that helps pigs, cows, and turkeys produce muscle. The United States allows ractopamine to be added within certain limits. However, in China, the drug is a banned additive because it cannot determine whether it will cause other side effects to the human body. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine requires that, as of March 1, 2013, importers of US meat importers or their agents importing U.S. pork at the port of entry for inspection should provide ractopamine residues that have been issued by qualified testing organizations. Test Report. The United States will not be allowed to enter the United States if it is unable to show third-party tests of ractopamine.