On June 23, 2015 (May 8, 2015 in the lunar calendar), more than 100,000 tons of "zombie meat" were sold across the country for 40 years. This news was identified as fake news. On June 23, 2015, Xinhua News reported that "post-70s" pig trotters, "post-80s" chicken wings... Some "zombie meat" older than some young people entered the country through smuggling and quietly appeared in supper stalls and restaurants. Some of these meats came from epidemic areas, and some were seriously expired. After processing condiments with chemical agents, they turned into "delicious dishes" with excellent appearance, threatening the food safety of the people. In June, the General Administration of Customs organized a special project to crack down on frozen products smuggling in 14 provinces in China, successfully destroying 21 professional smuggling frozen products criminal gangs. It is initially estimated that the whole case involves smuggling frozen products with a value of more than 3 billion yuan, including frozen chicken wings, frozen beef, frozen beef and frozen beef and pig by-products. 100,000 tons. From the perspective of investigation and punishment, the hygiene of these smuggled frozen meat is worrying. So, how did these frozen meat escape layers of supervision and get to the people's table? Unknown source of frozen products distribution in various places "pickled pepper chicken feet" become the hardest hit area on June 1, Changsha Customs cracked a large case of smuggling frozen products, destroyed two suspected smuggling frozen products gangs led by Li and Zhong respectively, and seized suspected smuggling of frozen beef, frozen duck neck, frozen chicken feet and other about 800 tons, worth about 10 million yuan. According to Changsha Customs, this is the largest case of smuggling frozen products seized in Hunan over the years. "It's so smelly, a whole carriage, I almost vomited when I opened the door," said Zhang Tao (a pseudonym), a police officer of Changsha Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau. It is understood that a total of 20 people were arrested in the two cases, including 17 Hunan nationals, 2 Guangxi nationals and 1 Guangdong nationality. On that day, a total of three cold storage units were found in Changsha, covering a total area of about 3,000 square meters. A large number of frozen products of unknown origin written in foreign languages were stacked in the cold storage. Li's smuggled frozen products were stored in two of the cold storage units and distributed to 14 cities and states in Hunan Province and all over the country through the facade of Changsha Red Star Cold Storage. The 180-acre Red Star Cold Storage is the largest frozen product wholesale market in Hunan and the main frozen product distribution center in Hunan Province. According to conservative statistics from Changsha Customs, the annual throughput of Red Star Cold Storage is 800,000 tons of frozen products, about one-third of which are foreign frozen products of unknown origin. Yang Bo, deputy director of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Changsha Customs, said that the smuggled frozen meat is all meat that has not passed the inspection and quarantine. If you eat frozen meat that carries bacteria and viruses such as bird flu, foot-and-mouth disease, and mad cow disease, it may endanger your life. The invention of freezing technology was originally to ensure the freshness of food. However, the reporter learned that the production date on the packaging of some smuggled frozen meat shows that the "meat age" is as long as 30 or 40 years. In the customs special project to crack down on frozen meat smuggling in June, a group of "post-80s" anti-smuggling personnel investigated and dealt with a batch of "post-70s" frozen meat older than him at a port in Guangxi. Experts told reporters that the quality of frozen meat for many years will be worse than that of fresh meat, but as long as there is no thawing phenomenon during the freezing process, it is difficult to distinguish from the appearance and taste. However, the transportation conditions of smuggled meat are harsh, and it is easy to breed various bacteria during the process of thawing, and even start to rot and re-freeze. Its hygiene and safety and food quality are unimaginable. These meat products of unknown origin enter food stalls, restaurants, and even regular supermarkets through wholesale markets. With the rise of fresh food e-commerce, some online platforms have also become their potential sales channels. After being marinated in soy sauce and seasoned with chili peppers, some of these meat products are made into packaged cooked food, and some have evolved into "delicacies" on the table, which are difficult for consumers to distinguish. The "pickled pepper chicken feet" that many people like to eat are the "hardest hit areas" for smuggling frozen products. Industry insiders told reporters that some chicken feet with "all colors and flavors" are even tens of years old and "old", which may be from a foreign country. Criminals soak them in bleach such as hydrogen peroxide to make the chicken feet look chubby, white and tender, and "sell well". According to the investigation, Li and his family smuggled at least hundreds of tons of pig feet and chicken feet into Hunan in the past year, and then distributed them all over the country through the facade of Red Star Cold Storage. " According to the latest meat product inspection and quarantine access list of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, our country only allows beef imports from Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Hungary and other countries. Smuggled beef imported from non-these countries generally sells for 20 yuan a kilogram, while the average fresh beef market is 40 yuan a kilogram. From the case of Hunan, huge profits prompted unscrupulous businesspeople to take risks, and eventually formed a chain of smuggling of frozen products shipped abroad, Hong Kong, Vietnam transit, China-Vietnam border "ant moving" smuggling, and Changsha receipt. According to relevant personnel, the most common smuggling route is: smugglers purchase goods from abroad at low prices, send them in containers to Hong Kong, and then send them to Haiphong, Vietnam. They dismantle them in Mang Street on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and hire border residents to transport the frozen products to the mainland in an "ant moving style". A 35-ton container of frozen products is moved by dozens of border residents, and it can be moved in an hour or two. Due to the high cost of transportation by refrigerated trucks, smugglers use ordinary vehicles to transport the frozen products from Nanning to Changsha. After a 12-hour journey, the goods have just been thawed, and some have even begun to rot and stink. The frozen products arriving in Changsha are moved into the cold storage to be cooled again, and then sent to various places in Hunan and Guangdong, Sichuan, Chongqing and other places. It is understood that many shops in the Red Star Freezer sell domestic meat and imported meat together, and you can often see various frozen product boxes marked in foreign languages being loaded into trucks and shipped to various places. "If you want to buy meat with quarantine certificates, buy domestic meat, and if you want to buy cheap, buy imported meat," a merchant said bluntly. What is even more shocking is that the chain of smuggling frozen meat involves many places. In the special project operation in June, the preliminary investigation found that since January 2015, Guangdong Panyu, Jiangmen area Chen, Huang, Wen and Liaoning Dalian area Liu and other 21 smuggling gangs, undertaking Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Henan, Guangdong and other frozen goods import orders of cargo owners, foreign smuggled frozen products from this source into the domestic market. Huanggang Customs and Luohu Customs recently carried out a special project of frozen products and seafood in the travel inspection entry hall of Futian Port, and found that water passengers used suitcases, backpacks and other smuggled frozen products and seafood to enter the country. Industry insiders point out that even with high-pressure crackdowns, there are many links in frozen product smuggling and high illegal profits. A group of smuggling gangs have formed a "one-stop service" from contracting business to transportation, customs clearance, and delivery of goods. When collecting intermediate fees, cash or online payment is used, and transaction records are hidden, making it difficult to investigate and deal with. At present, frozen product smuggling has gone from family-style to solo, forming a nationwide group development. Frozen product smugglers from all over the country have established WeChat groups and QQ groups. If there is any news, they will communicate with each other. Experts point out that in order to effectively crack down on the smuggling of frozen products, it is necessary to strengthen the source control of smuggled frozen products, and set up a strict monitoring network in the border areas where smuggling is rampant to block the channels for smuggling frozen products into the country. Otherwise, once frozen products flow into the mainland, they will be more difficult to crack down after being transported on the transportation network extending in all directions. Combating smuggled frozen products requires the cooperation of multiple functional areas of business such as customs, public security, industry and commerce, inspection and quarantine. At present, various provinces have established leading groups to combat smuggling, including more than a dozen departments such as customs, public security, industry and commerce, and entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureaus. It seems that the participation is very high, but sometimes it is often "everyone is involved and no one cares". " The frozen products smuggling network covers the whole country, and the fight against frozen products smuggling should strengthen multi-provincial cooperation. In particular, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other'main battlefields' should jointly crack down, achieve the source of the attack, and solve the problem of frozen products smuggling and smuggling from the root cause. Effectively protect the food safety and personal health of consumers, and maintain an orderly and healthy market environment. "Yang Bo said. According to reports, in order to maximize the prevention of smuggled meat of unknown origin from coming to the table, the General Administration of Customs has deployed two rounds of special projects to combat frozen meat smuggling across the country in April and June this year. All localities will also increase efforts to combat frozen smuggled products. 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