Wuhan market recovery of dead shrimp shrimp processing: just "brain dead"-shrimp, food safety-IT information

Recently, the Wuhan people to reflect, he went to Wuhan Baishazhou large agricultural and sideline products aquaculture market area when you buy lobster found specialized recycling dead shrimp on the market, I do not know for what purpose. Two days in a row, the press dunshou found in the market, was actually in a market centralized recovery of dead shrimp, then packing-shipping. In order to find out which dead shrimp, journalists tracking a goods vehicle carrying dead shrimp, xiantao found dead shrimp were shipped to "Grandma's House" of food-processing plants.

Report: somebody in the market buying dead shrimp shipped

? White sand inside the market, workers dying shrimp onto the truck.

He is 32 years old, is a restaurant owner in Hankou. Every morning, he would go to the white sand of farm and sideline products wholesale market of aquatic products, raw materials back to the shop. Recently, when his purchase, he found, was administered on-die market shrimp. After they recovered dead shrimp at a low price, in a plastic box checked out of the market. It made him wonder: why do people with costly effort your dead shrimp?

"Should not be directly away. "What's analysis, if it is a direct throw, no one will pay money to collect, does not neatly fit into the box, arrange the delivery. He said he knew someone dead shrimp as food raw materials used in the industry, through a special sauce made fresh shrimp flavor. He had heard that barbecue boss dead shrimp and shrimp blended together through a lot of dressing to cover up the smell of dead shrimp.

"If this is the case it is too wicked. "He said, live shrimp price is dead shrimp prices more than 10 times, restaurant owner not ruled out shoddy work for profit. But dead shrimp eaten is harmful to health, in his view, money to the bottom line, dead shrimp were served at the table should not be tolerated.

Reporter visits: there are three stalls specifically to buy dead shrimp

On April 16, the reporter went to the white sand of agricultural and sideline products markets aquaculture area. Wholesaler Chen introduces dealers recover shrimp from shrimp, he and other wholesalers will ask for live shrimp are classified into 3 categories according to the size: a small, more than 10 Yuan a kilo; a slightly larger, more than 30 yuan a kilo; bigger, more than 50 Yuan a kilo.

Due to long distance transport, extrusion and other reasons, the shrimps were picking out, leaving a number of dead shrimp. So, these dead shrimp how to deal with it? Reporter note to, Chen Mr zainei of wholesalers are will on died shrimp for II times sorting, head big of, and shrimp tail has elastic of, will quickly removed shrimp head, to 20 Yuan a pounds of price put shrimp tail sold restaurant boss do shrimp ball; a small of, or died have time more long, shrimp shell some deformation, and rotten off of, is will separate put into another basin in.

When a reporter to a woman wholesaler suggested that wanted to buy something deformation or rotting dead shrimp back when making grilled ingredients, they declined, she said that the business of conscience, fresh shrimp you can eat food, but this dead shrimp are inedible.

This "inedible" dead shrimp will do? The visit, the number of wholesalers said choose not die shrimp will not be wasted, there is someone to buy, price per kg ranging from 2 to 3 Yuan. The use of these dead shrimp, their claim is "to feed".

That afternoon, reporters at the Baishazhou aquatic areas of agricultural and sideline products market, has discovered three centralized recovery of dead shrimp stall. A truck, a scale, several staff members, these stalls is "standard".

Track: dead shrimp were shipped into a food processing plant

▲ After sorting, the shrimp are cooked and cooked in the factory, workers water cooling.

On April 17, the journalists selected the white sandbar trading agricultural and sideline products markets aquaculture zone of a stall in area a, squat down to observe. At 9 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, stop someone with a dead shrimp to weigh in here, to sell it at the price of 3 Yuan per Jin stalls. Hold on several men collected dead shrimp were piled up in a plastic box, until the case of the plastic box is full.

Reporters noted, is also a plastic box to load, but dead shrimp were piled with shrimp are completely different. In General, when the live shrimp into a plastic box, often a layer of shrimp and then covered with a layer of ice, outer layer of the box not too full, and outer foam box there. Which dead shrimp were piled in plastic boxes, without any fresh.

At 9 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, due to some dead shrimp were placed for a long time, piling up points give a stench, attracting many flies. 3:30 P.M. about staff into plastic bins filled with dead shrimp sprinkled with some ice and cut the Sub, and then moved into the tail number "Q93" vehicles.

3:20 P.M., tail number "Q93" trucks starting from the Baishazhou large market, reporters followed, goods vehicles out of the city by Han-yi after high-speed train to peaches, pulled out of the high speed along Xian Jian road in the Guo River town. 5:19 P.M., van suddenly stopped at the gate of a shop installed a water faucet. Opens the car after driver, car shrimp inside the plastic box faucet from water spray.

Nearby a shop owner told Xinhua, it is to cool the car shrimp to prevent stink. He also said that every day there are many car transport from Wuhan to shrimp, was taken to a nearby company called "Grandma's House" of food-processing plants as raw material for production of shrimp.

10 minutes later, the trucks set off again, after a few minutes, goods vehicle entered a hung "Hubei Grandma's foods limited" sign factory.

Manufacturer claims that "brain death" shrimps as raw materials

? Peach head of the food and drug administration and quarantine checks in the factory.

Reporters looked at xiantao city, immediately to the food and Drug Administration reflects this. , At 6 o'clock in the afternoon in the town of xiantao city Guo CAI, Director, food and drug, led by reporters into Grandma's foods limited plant in Hubei Province, saw the tail number "Q93" vehicles. At this point, the van under the shrimp has been empty, empty plastic boxes stacked together.

Empty plastic boxes are not far away, people were working on a pipeline sort crayfish. One side of the line, two plastic containers filled with rotting, deformation of small lobsters and other debris. The other side, three plastic boxes containing smaller, body full of crawfish. A worker told reporters that sort of larger lobsters have been sent to the processing zone, the three cases will be used to make shrimp than a lobster tail. Not for a while, factory Director Xiong rushed to the scene, said the three boxes of crawfish will be made into feed sold not as a food ingredient.

Subsequently, the reporters came to the factory together with CAI, Director of the district, the worker will be sorted after the crayfish into a cooking machine, and soon, it came out red cooked shrimp. Next to the cooking, stocked with hundreds of boxes of cooked crawfish, placed in different positions according to the size. A worker said the shrimp was used to make food, next to the words didn't finish was more than blocking, Xiong said the shrimp is also used as feed.

Soon, Liu, head of the company, xiantao city, head of the food and drug administration and quarantine two also arrived on the scene. And Quarantine Bureau official Liu asked if this batch of shrimp when there is a purchase document, Liu replied No.

According to Liu introduced, tail number "Q93" brought in about 4000 pounds of shrimp, one-third is in line with the standard shrimp with shrimp, the rest is made of shrimp feed, sold on a per-pound price of 6 cents to Turtle farmers. Cook the shrimp in order to prevent spoilage, when cooked, they will again sort, sorting out the shrimp, as raw material for production of shrimp. Liu said the plant is mainly engaged in shrimp exports. If failed, pass the domestic standard, but also international standards.

When a reporter suggested that these shrimp were markets don't, 90% when you are dead. The official said some shrimps are alive, some shrimp are "brain dead" seems dead, muscle flexibility, can be used as raw material.

Project leader: no raw materials purchase check record commits an offence

Dead shrimp can be used as a food ingredient, please? Xiantao city, food and drug administration and quarantine officials said, the manufacturer said that shrimp are cooked to further sort, in other words, this batch of shrimp is not a food raw material, they well tests.

Hubei Province food and drug administration related to food production and supervision Department staff, in accordance with the provisions of the law on food safety, food business enterprise shall perform validation, testing and other procedures for procurement of raw materials, deterioration of purchasing materials as raw materials are not allowed. Enterprises should establish food raw materials purchase check record system to faithfully record the name of the food, specifications, quantity, purchase date, and supplier names and other content, and save the voucher.

The staff said, in the existing laws and regulations, not depending on the animal's death to determine whether as a raw material, but according to whether it is corrupt to judge whether it can be used as a raw material. Crayfish as long as there is no spoilage, it can be used as raw materials for food processing enterprises. If the public found Enterprise procurement spoilage in food ingredients processing, can be reported to the food and drug administration.

Entry-exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau in Hubei province said the Bureau is mainly responsible for the inspection of food in the import/export link, purchase shrimp source is domestic, not part of their scope of management.

Office of the Hubei Provincial Bureau of aquatic products quality safety management officials say their management before the first sales of aquatic products quality, aquatic product processing into commercial products, again when sales are outside their scope of management. In General, the shrimp for export, must have the export quality of origin.

Doctors advise: dead shrimp were very perishable

Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Medical Director Shi Xianyan introduced crayfish and crabs have a high protein content, corruption quickly after death, very perishable. Shrimp and crab in vivo protein contains a lot of Histidine, the death of Histidine into histamine are toxic substances, is cooked it is difficult to eliminate, it will cause human allergies and adverse reactions may cause acute gastroenteritis.

Secondly, crayfish and crabs die of corruption decomposes bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum are likely to grow, can also cause acute gastroenteritis. Add shrimp and crab are benthic, usually feed on microorganisms, already prone to contamination, it is recommended that people try to eat fresh shrimp, do not eat dead shrimp and crab.

武汉一市场回收死虾做虾仁，加工点：只是“脑死亡” - 虾仁,食品安全 - IT资讯

近日，湖北武汉市民何先生反映，他去武汉白沙洲农副产品大市场水产区买龙虾时发现，市场上有人专门回收死虾，不知作何用途。连续两日，记者蹲守该市场发现，确实有人在市场内集中回收死虾，而后装箱托运。为摸清这些死虾的去处，记者跟踪其中一辆装载死虾的货车，发现这些死虾被运往仙桃市一家名为“外婆家”的食品加工厂。

市民举报：市场里有人收购死虾运走

▲白沙洲市场内，工人将死虾搬上货车。

何先生今年32岁，是汉口一家餐馆的老板。每天上午，他都会去白沙洲农副产品大市场批发些水产品，拖回店里做原材料。近日，他进货时发现，市场里有人专收死虾。他们以低价回收死虾后，装入塑料箱托运出市场。这让他有些疑惑：这些人耗财费力地收死虾干嘛？

“应该不会是直接扔掉。”何先生分析，如果是直接扔掉，不会有人花钱去收，也不会整齐装入箱子，安排专人运送。何先生说，他知道业内有人用死虾作食物原料，通过特殊的调料做出鲜虾的味道。他也曾听说，有烧烤老板将死虾与活虾混在一起，通过较多的调料来掩盖死虾的味道。

“如果是这样就太缺德了。”何先生说，活虾价格是死虾价格的10多倍，不排除有餐馆老板以次充好来牟利。但死虾吃了有害健康，他认为，赚钱要有底线，将死虾端上餐桌实在不能容忍。

记者探访：有三个摊点专门收购死虾

4月16日，记者来到白沙洲农副产品大市场水产区。批发商陈先生介绍，从虾贩子那里收回虾子后，他和其它批发商会请人按个头把活虾分为3类：个小的，10多元一斤；个稍大的，30多元一斤；再大一点的，50多元一斤。

由于长途运输、挤压等原因，活虾被挑拣出来后，会剩下不少死虾。那么，这些死虾怎么处理呢？记者注意到，陈先生在内的批发商们会对死虾进行二次分拣，个头大的、虾尾有弹性的，会迅速去掉虾头，以20元一斤的价格把虾尾卖给餐馆老板做虾球；个小的，或者死得时间较长，虾壳有些变形、烂掉的，则会单独放进另一个盆子里。

当记者向一名女批发商提出，想买些变形或烂掉的死虾回去，当做烧烤的食材时，对方婉言拒绝了，她称做生意要讲良心，刚死的虾还可以吃，但这部分死虾是不能吃的。

那这部分“不能吃”的死虾会怎么处理？探访中，多家批发商说，挑得不要的死虾也不会浪费，还是有专人来收购，价格每斤2元到3元不等。对于这些死虾的用途，他们的说法是“用来做饲料”。

当日下午，记者在白沙洲农副产品大市场水产区，先后发现了三处集中回收死虾的摊点。一辆货车、一台磅秤、几名工作人员，是这些摊点的“标配”。

一路跟踪：死虾被运进一家食品加工厂

▲虾经分拣后在工厂内被蒸煮熟，工人浇水降温。

4月17日，记者选定白沙洲农副产品大市场水产区交易A区的一处摊点，蹲守观察。上午9时至下午3时，不停有人拿着死虾来这里过磅，以3元一斤的价格卖给摊点。守摊的几名男子将收来的死虾堆放在一个个塑料箱里，直到百来个塑料箱被放满为止。

记者注意到，同样是塑料箱来装载，但死虾堆放方式与活虾完全不同。一般来说，活虾放入塑料箱时，往往放一层虾再铺一层冰，箱子外层不会装得太满，且外面还有一层泡沫盒。而这些死虾只是被堆放在塑料箱里，没做任何保鲜处理。

早上9时到下午3时，因有的死虾放置时间较长，堆放点散发着一股腥臭味，引来不少苍蝇。下午3时30分左右，工作人员往装有死虾的塑料箱里撒了些冰碴子，然后搬入尾号为“Q93”的货车。

下午3时20分，尾号为“Q93”的货车从白沙洲大市场内出发，记者一路跟踪，货车出城后经汉宜高速开往仙桃，驶出高速后沿着仙监大道进入郭河镇内。下午5时19分，货车突然停在一家安装着井水龙头的商店门口。司机下车后打开车厢，拿起水龙头向车内装虾的塑料箱喷水。

附近一家商店的老板告诉记者，这样做是给车内虾子降温，防止其变臭。他还表示，每天都有不少来自武汉的车子运来虾子，多半是送往附近一家名叫“外婆家”的食品加工厂作为生产虾球的原料。

10分钟后，货车再次启程，几分钟后，货车驶入一家挂有“湖北外婆家食品有限公司”牌子的工厂。

厂方声称：“脑死亡”的虾仍可作原料

▲仙桃食药监局检疫局负责人在工厂检查。

记者见状，立即向仙桃市食药监局反映此事。当日下午6时，在仙桃市郭河镇食药监所蔡所长带领下，记者进入湖北外婆家食品有限公司厂区，又见到尾号为“Q93”的货车。此时，货车上的虾已被下空，空塑料箱摞在一起。

空塑料箱不远处，多名工人正在一条流水线上分拣小龙虾。流水线一侧，两个塑料箱里装着烂掉、变形的小龙虾及杂物。另外一侧，三个塑料盒里装着规格较小、体态完整的小龙虾。一名工人告诉记者，分拣出的大个头龙虾已被送往加工区，这三箱龙虾将被用来制作虾尾。没一会儿，工厂生产负责人熊先生赶到现场，称这三箱小龙虾会被做成饲料出售，不会作为食品原料。

随后，记者与蔡所长一起来到该工厂加工区，工人将分拣后的小龙虾倒入一台蒸煮机，不一会，就出来红彤彤的熟虾。在蒸煮机旁边，摆放着逾百箱煮熟的小龙虾，按照个头大小摆放在不同位置。一名工人称这些虾都被用来制作食品，话没说完就被旁边多人阻拦，一旁的熊先生则称这些虾也是用作饲料。

不久，公司负责人刘某赶来，仙桃市食药监局检疫局两名负责人也赶到现场。检疫局一名负责人向刘某询问这批虾子是否有采购单据时，刘某回答称没有。

据刘某介绍，尾号“Q93”运来的虾子约有4000斤，其中三分之一是符合做虾仁标准的虾，其余部分则是做成虾饲料，以每斤6角钱的价格卖给甲鱼等养殖户。将虾煮熟是为了防止腐败变质，煮熟后，他们会再一次分拣，分拣出合格的虾，作为生产虾仁的原料。刘某称，该工厂主要从事虾仁出口。如果原料不合格，既通不过国内标准，也通不过国际标准。

当记者提出，这些虾都是市场不要的，九成以上都已死亡时。该负责人称，有些虾还是活着的，有些虾也只是“脑死亡”，看起来死了，肌肉仍有弹性，可以作为原料使用。

主管部门：没有进货查验记录属违法

死虾可以用作食品原料吗？仙桃市食药监局检疫局相关负责人称，厂方说将虾煮熟后还要进一步分检，也就是说，这批虾还不是食品的原料，他们不好检测。

湖北省食药监局食品生产监管处相关工作人员表示，根据《食品安全法》的规定，食品经营企业应当对原料采购履行验证、检测等程序，不允许采购腐败变质的材料作为原料。企业应建立食品进货查验记录制度，如实记录食品的名称、规格、数量、进货日期以及供货者名称等内容，并保存相关凭证。

该工作人员表示，在现有的法律法规中，不是根据动物的死活来判断能否作为原料，而是根据其是否腐败变质来判断是否可作为原料。小龙虾只要没有腐败变质，就可以作为食品加工企业的原料。如果市民发现食品经营企业采购腐败变质食材进行加工，可以向食药监部门进行举报。

湖北出入境检验检疫局相关工作人员称，该局主要负责食品在进出口环节的检验，采购虾源是在国内进行的，不属于他们的管理范围。

湖北省水产局质量安全管理办公室相关负责人表示，他们主要管理水产品第一次销售前的质量，至于水产品加工成商品，再次销售时，则不在他们的管理范畴。一般来说，用于出口的虾子，原产地必须具备出口资质。

医生提醒：死虾非常容易变质

武汉大学中南医院消化内科主任医师施先艳介绍，小龙虾与螃蟹的蛋白质含量很高，死后腐败速度很快，非常容易变质。虾蟹体内蛋白质构成中含有大量组氨酸，死后组氨酸迅速转化为有毒物质组胺，就是烧煮后也很难消除，它会引起人体过敏等不良反应，可能会导致急性肠胃炎。

其次，小龙虾与螃蟹死后腐败分解时易滋生肉毒杆菌等细菌，也会引起急性肠胃炎。加上虾蟹都是底栖生物，平时以微生物为食，本来就易沾染细菌，所以建议市民尽量吃新鲜活虾，不要食用死亡的虾蟹。