● Party: The bottle cap flies out at the moment of opening, hurting people.
Mr. Ni's girlfriend, Miss Chen, told this reporter: "At about 9: 00 am on August 13, Mr. Ni opened a bottle of 1.25 liter Minute Maid orange juice at home (the production date was July 6, 2006), drank about one third, then left the bottle in the bedroom and went out. At about 0: 00 p.m./kloc-0: 00 p.m., when Mr. Ni was about to drink this bottle of beverage again, an accident happened: at the moment of unscrewing the bottle cap, a gas suddenly rushed out of the bottle, and the bottle cap flew out with a bang, smashing Mr. Ni's glasses. Mr. Ni subconsciously covered his eyes with his hand, but the blood kept pouring out. "
Miss Chen hurried forward to help him take off his glasses and found that both lenses popped out under the action of external force, and the broken lens hurt his right eye. Miss Chen immediately sent Mr. Ni to the Eye, Otolaryngology Hospital affiliated to Fudan University.
By August 23, the hospital had performed two operations on Mr. Ni, repaired his eyeball and implanted an intraocular lens.
According to Yu Xiaobo, Mr. Ni's attending doctor, the patient may face some secondary eye diseases in the future, which will definitely leave scars, and because part of the iris was removed during the operation, the pupil will not be normal and round in the future.
According to Mr. Ni's family, although the bottle of Minute Maid orange beverage is marked with "Avoid direct sunlight and high temperature" and "Refrigerate and drink as soon as possible after opening", consumers usually interpret it as preventing the loss of nutrition and taste of the beverage, rather than warning that there may be explosion danger. Therefore, businesses should be responsible for this matter.
● Shenmei Company: Not sure about the quality of drinks.
Minute Maid Fruit Orange is an orange juice beverage produced by Coca-Cola Company and distributed by Shanghai Shenmei Beverage & Food Co., Ltd. In an interview with this reporter, Mr. Chen, the foreign affairs department of the company, said: "The deterioration of non-carbonated beverages will only produce gas by fermentation. When Mr. Ni opened the drink for the first time at 9: 00 a.m., there was nothing unusual. He drank a third of it, indicating that there was no problem with the quality of the original drink, and there should be no microorganisms exceeding the standard. Then Mr. Ni put the drink in the bedroom and didn't open it until evening. Because of the hot weather, drinks may go bad during processing. This is also the reason why the company marked the words' avoid direct sunlight and high temperature' and' refrigerate and drink as soon as possible after opening' on the beverage bottle. "
Teacher Chen also believes that it takes a certain time for microbial fermentation to produce a large amount of gas, at least for more than one day. Ordinary juice drinks are unlikely to produce gas with enough impact force within 12 hours. "According to the calculation of the company's technicians, if the bottle cap is going to fly out, break the lens and hurt the human eye, the air pressure in the bottle should reach 8-9 kg, which is beyond common sense, so this matter needs further investigation. The company has commissioned a third-party agency to conduct testing to confirm the credibility and actual danger of the incident. " However, he did not disclose the details of the third-party testing agency.
Mr. Chen told reporters that last week, Shenmei Beverage Company sent representatives to visit Mr. Ni and his family in the ward, "paying the medical expenses temporarily out of humanitarian concern" and sent 1 10,000 yuan in cash to his family. Shenmei company "is not sure whether this matter belongs to the product quality problem, so it has not yet reached the stage of negotiating compensation matters".
● Juice drinks have been hurt several times because of improper storage.
The reporter noticed that in the past year, there have been several incidents of explosion and injury when fruit juice drinks are stored at room temperature after opening.
According to the report of Qingdao Financial Daily on July 23, 2005, "The fruit juice beverage in the farmer's orchard exploded two days after being drunk at room temperature, causing Ms. Wang, Haibo Village 167, Shibei District, Qingdao, to be deaf in both ears and her inner ear vibrated."
Manager Xie, the person in charge of the factory, said: "On the outer packaging of our products, there is the word' it is recommended to finish it within 24 hours', but the consumer did not finish it according to our suggestion, so the explosion of the beverage bottle was caused by improper use by the consumer."
On May 3 1 2005, in the 990 listener hotline broadcast program of Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station, the listener Mr. Yao called to report that he had bought drinks from farmers' orchards. When he continued to drink the drink the next day after opening it, the bottle suddenly burst, and the cap hit Mr. Yao's nose and made a big cut.
Afterwards, Shanghai Nongfu Spring Drinking Water Co., Ltd. sent a fax to the audience hotline live program, saying: "Mr. Yao did not have any abnormality when he opened the bottle for the first time, and the bottle exploded when he opened the bottle for the second time. Our company is still not sure about the real reason for the product abnormality. However, because Mr. Yao was indeed damaged by our products, our company formally apologized to Mr. Yao, and fully reimbursed Mr. Yao for medical expenses such as medical expenses, and compensated Mr. Yao for cash and 1000 yuan. "
On March 20, 2006, a consumer in Wuxi, Jiangsu complained to the "3 15 complaint website": "The plastic bottle orange juice beverage produced by Hangzhou Wahaha Group was opened and drank for 2/3, and it was still placed on the computer desk. Exploded itself two days later. The bottle was blown to the top of a 3-meter-high building and fell. As a result, computer monitors and floors are fried drinks. "
Hangzhou Wahaha Group's explanation for this matter is: "Did the product drink 2/3? Explain that the product should not have quality problems. This situation is probably caused by bacteria entering the bottle after the drink is opened. Bacteria decompose the organic matter in the beverage and produce a large amount of gas, thus exploding. Therefore, the company advises users to put unfinished products in the refrigerator, preferably not at room temperature to avoid accidents. "
● Consumer associations issue consumer warnings on this issue.
Plastic bottles containing drinks may explode even if they are not opened. Yang, director of the Complaints Department of the Consumers Association of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, said that on June 17, 2006, Mr. Shen of Yangzhou City bought several bottles of plastic bottles of drinks at Guangrunfa Supermarket in the city and left them at home. On the afternoon of June 28, when one of the drinks was taken out for drinking, the bottle suddenly expanded, and the bottle cap was ejected by the expanded beverage gas, hitting Mr. Shen's eyes, causing six stitches in his eyelids.
On the 20th of last month, Yangzhou Consumers Association issued a "consumption warning" on the problem that plastic bottled drinks would also "explode" and hurt people, pointing out that from the taste point of view, many fruit juice drinks are now filled at low temperature, and the production, transportation and sales processes all need low temperature. Once the production, transportation, sales and storage processes are slightly improper, leaving low temperature conditions will lead to raw material fermentation and bacterial reproduction, leading to product deterioration, which will lead to inedible or even serious injury. Yangzhou Consumers Association reminds consumers that when purchasing juice drinks, they must carefully read the product labels and related instructions, and pay attention to the conditions of storage, opening and eating. If it is a cold drink, try to meet the conditions as much as possible. If the whole process cannot meet the requirements, the non-refrigerated time should be shortened as much as possible. If the beverage is swollen, bubbled and deformed from the outside, stop drinking and pay attention to safety precautions when opening it to avoid personal injury.
● Lawyers believe that manufacturers should clearly mark the risk warning.
In view of the fact that the manufacturer thinks that the words "avoid direct sunlight and high temperature" and "refrigerate and drink as soon as possible after opening" have reminded consumers, lawyer Hao Junbo of Beijing Limin Law Firm believes that in this kind of beverage bottle explosion injury incident, although the manufacturer has indicated the words "avoid direct sunlight and high temperature" and "refrigerate and drink as soon as possible after opening", the manufacturer should still bear the corresponding responsibilities. "According to Article 18 of China's Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests, producers should make true explanations and clear warnings to consumers about goods that may endanger personal and property safety, and explain and indicate the methods of correctly using goods or receiving services and the methods of preventing harm."
Lawyer Hao Junbo believes that if the manufacturer only indicates the words "It is recommended to finish drinking within 24 hours" or "It must be refrigerated after opening and drunk as soon as possible" on the product, it should be considered that there is no clear warning to consumers. Because no matter from the common sense of life or the meaning of the text itself, "hint" is different from "warning" (Tang Xia)
Source: Food and Health Weekly