Chinese green beans + chemicals = Big, long, beautiful price
Green beans are bought on the market for 1.7 - 1.8 million VND/bag (50kg) and during production, chemicals are added to make the bean sprouts big, fat and long...
At 9:00 a.m. on May 7, the interdisciplinary food safety inspection team of Tan Phu district, in conjunction with the police of Tan Quy ward, Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City, suddenly inspected two bean sprout production facilities at house number 35/47 and house number 35/51 Do Thua Luong street, Tan Quy ward, Tan Phu district. Thereby, the authorities discovered violations at the two production facilities such as: "using chemicals of unknown origin in food production and processing activities" and "not having a business registration certificate as prescribed".
Tools for bean sprout production
When the inspection team raided the production facility at house number 35/47 Do Thua Luong Street owned by Vu Van Huyen (born in 1987, residing in Nam Dinh province), the authorities discovered that workers in this facility were using green beans in 50kg bags with Chinese characters printed on them. In addition, the police also seized 2.5kg of chemicals in tubes of unknown origin.
Located next to the above facility is the bean sprout production facility of Mr. Do Van Quan (born in 1969, residing in Nam Dinh province) at house number 35/51. Checking this place, the authorities also discovered 2 bags of green beans with Chinese characters printed on them, 50kg, 4.2kg of chemicals of unknown origin (in tubes) and 25kg of powdered chemicals of unknown origin. Mr. Quan admitted that he bought green beans floating on the market for 1.7 - 1.8 million VND/bag (50kg) and when producing, he added chemicals to make the bean sprouts big, fat and long, then sold them in local markets. All of the above chemicals were seized by the police for investigation and clarification.
It is worth mentioning that when working with the authorities, the two naive owners of the facility said that they did not know that such production was toxic and affected the health of consumers. These people also affirmed that they saw many places doing this so they followed suit to make a living.
After discovering violations at the two production facilities, the authorities drew up administrative violation records. For the violations as mentioned, the authorities will administratively fine each facility more than 20 million VND.
According to Dan Viet - TH
