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For the recent expired meat food incident of Shanghai Fuxi Company, American food safety experts interviewed by Tencent Finance believe that from the facts presented by the incident, it does not involve food safety issues.
Steve Gruhle, an American expert in food quality control, told Tencent Finance on June 7th that he was "very puzzled" about the food safety issue of Fuxi, which was widely questioned by the media and the public.
"I must admit, I am puzzled why the current situation will cause doubts and disputes about food safety." Gruhle said.
He said that as far as the factual basis of the current incident is concerned, there is no food safety problem. Compared with food safety, he prefers to characterize the incident as a problem that some people failed to follow production standards and processes.
Betsy Booren, vice president of scientific affairs of American Meat Association, recently published an article explaining in detail how to correctly understand the shelf life of frozen food.
Brun said that for frozen food, it is not easy to compare the shelf life on food packaging with the existing date and draw a conclusion whether it has expired.
For example, he said that a consumer bought several bags of hot dog sausages that expired in July 10. If two of them are thawed on July 5, the shelf life of these two bags will be suspended on July 5. If the food has been frozen in this way, it will not expire until July 10, and the shelf life will continue to be calculated after thawing.
Brun pointed out that the above rules are still valid in the factory environment. Because in the actual business process, a processing factory will buy chicken leg meat to make chicken chops, but suddenly it was informed that a big order was cancelled, so there will be a lot of chicken leg meat left.
"The processing plant can then choose to freeze these chicken legs for the next order. If the shelf life of the chicken leg meat has passed when the next order arrives, these chicken legs can still be used, because the shelf life of these meats will stop counting from the moment of freezing. "
Gruhle also fully agrees with the above point of view, and thinks that there is no really expired frozen food in this Fuxi incident. Frozen food whose shelf life exceeds the interview time is actually frozen before the shelf life, so it has not expired.
Gruhle pointed out that the most important factors related to food safety are temperature and sanitary conditions in food storage areas.
Regarding the behavior of workers picking up the fallen meat in the interview video of Fuxi incident, Gruhle thinks that this process makes it very unlikely that food will be contaminated by pathogenic bacteria, because Fuxi Group follows very high hygiene standards and strictly monitors the pathogenic bacteria in its factories in real time.
"Pathogens need to be in an ideal state to survive, and the possibility of pathogens in Fuxi factory is extremely small." Gruhle said.
Global Quality Consultants, with Gruhle as the chairman and CEO, mainly provides consulting services on food brand quality and risk control, and Fuxi Group is one of its clients. Gruhle has more than 40 years of experience in the field of food safety.
Gruhle said that according to his investigation results of Fuxi Group's factories in Asia, Europe and the United States, he did not find any major omissions or irregularities in food safety.
"For Fuxi, what I have seen in factories around the world is that they all follow the same food safety process." Gruhle said, "With more than 40 years of experience in the field of food safety, I can say with absolute responsibility that Fuxi's food safety system is among the best in the world. What I can be sure of is that what I see is the best in Asia, otherwise I will not become a long-term supplier of KFC and McDonald's. "
At present, the Fuxi incident is still under investigation. The latest statement of Fuxi Group said that it is recovering the problem products with the help and guidance of the US Food and Drug Administration in Shanghai and cooperating with the investigation. Previously, the review team had sent an international investigation expert group to conduct an internal investigation. (Tencent Finance Ji Zhenyu from new york