Chongqing Cracks Food Fake Case Honeycomb White Honey

An induction cooker, plus bees residue (honeycomb scraps), sugar, alum, soy sauce and other can produce honey. Yesterday, Chongqing Evening News reporter learned from Hechuan Industry and Commerce Branch that the Dashi Industry and Commerce Bureau seized a fake honey case: three foreigners rented a small hotel and used fakes, sugar, alum and soy sauce to make fake honey. Hechuan sells near the city, known as natural wild honey. Law enforcement officers seized 50 kilograms of fake honey at the scene.

Man-made wild honey 8 yuan a pound to ask the source to show the filling man-made

"Natural wild honey, delicious and nutritious, and very cheap!" Two days ago, Dashi Industry and Commerce Law enforcement officials patrolled the market and discovered that a man who swears an outside accent is selling wild honey in bulk. Honey is packed in plastic bags, selling only 8-10 yuan per catty.

These honeys are light brown in color and look very good for sale. The man surrounded a lot of elderly people. Seeing that this honey price is lower than the market, they have to buy one after another.

“Where did you buy wild honey?” The law enforcement officials initially concluded that the cheap “wild honey” was definitely tricky.

The man who sells honey, claiming to be surnamed Wang, is a native of Jiangxi. He saw the face of law enforcement officials change greatly, and Q&A was vague. Law enforcement officers immediately seized the honey that was being sold.

Subsequently, the Hechuan Industry and Commerce Branch and the local public security department took joint action and, according to the clue provided by Wang, arrested Liu, who was making false honey, in a small hotel opposite the Pais College of Chongqing Technology and Business University in the Traffic Street Triangle Garden. A variety of raw materials were placed inside the hotel. The dead bees in sacks were stenched and the fake honey produced was about 50 kilograms.

The color is soy sauce flavored by honey blending

According to Liu's account, in addition to him and Wang, and Zhang, all three were from Jiangxi. They mainly use pomace and white sugar as raw materials, add soy sauce, alum, etc., and use the induction cooker to make fake honey in the hotel.

According to Wang, they first used boiling water to detoxify the pomace and white sugar, and then added alum to add soy sauce, white pigment, flour and other additives after cooling the syrup. Alum is added to prevent the sugar from solidifying after cooling. Soy sauce and white pigment can play a role in color mixing. Flour can play a role in thickening. As for the proportion of these raw materials, Wang said that it is completely added in accordance with experience, and there is no fixed ratio.

Later, they also sprinkled some honey essence on the packaged fake honey to produce aroma. They also collected dead bees from old beekeepers and soaked in white wine to avoid discoloration. When the street is sold, dead bees are set aside to show the authenticity of honey.

A batch of batches sold mainly to towns to fight guerrillas

Where is fake honey sold? Wang said that since the beginning of this year, they have manufactured and sold fake honey in Hunan, Hubei and other places. They mainly choose to set up stalls in towns and towns to sell stalls. Usually, they sell local fake honey and sell a batch of fake honey. Put another place to commit the crime.

According to Wang and others, there are many people on the market who use honey essence, alum and other blended into honey sales, because the price is relatively low, it is easy to attract consumers. Their customers are mainly old people who rushed to the scene, "before and after earning ten thousand dollars or so."

According to the owner of the hotel, the three people stayed on the morning of October 8 and bought about 300 pounds of white sugar when they lived in. “The doors are usually closed, and they do not know where they are.”

At present, Hechuan police imprisoned Wang and Liu for alleged counterfeiting and selling, and the case is under further investigation.

Experts: False honey contains the formula of anemia caused by excessive consumption of alum, and the deputy director of the City Food Research Institute is surprised by Zhou Lingguo. He claims to have never heard of such a formidable fraudulent method. Basically, there is no honey in the product. The nutrients are completely blended.

According to Zhou Lingguo, according to national standards, no substance other than honey can be added to or mixed in honey, but it is still labeled as "honey" or "honey" for deliberately adding honey, sugar, glucose, and other industrially produced substances to honey. "The product will be punished according to law.

Does the false honey robbed by Wang and others harm the human body? Zhou Lingguo said that honey essence is blended using syrup and other foods, and it should have no harm to the human body. However, random addition of alum to honey may harm health. Although Alum is a food additive, it can play a role in purification and bulking, for example, it is often used as an additive for the production of fritters, vermicelli, and rice flour. However, because the chemical composition of alum is aluminum potassium sulfate and contains aluminum ions, excessive intake can affect the body's absorption of iron, calcium and other components, leading to osteoporosis, anemia, and even affect the development of nerve cells. He suggested that people should eat less food containing alum.

Teach you to identify fake honey

There are many kinds of counterfeiting methods on the market, and it is still a bit difficult for the public to really distinguish them. To this end, Zhou Lingguo, deputy director of the Municipal Food Research Institute, introduced several simple methods:

Fake honey looks very clear and bright because it is made of white sugar or is made of syrup. The composition of real honey is very complex and contains some proteins, biological enzymes, minerals, vitamins, pollen and other components of honey plants, so it is not very clear. If it is honey that incorporates starchy substances, it is chaotic and less transparent.

Fake honey has a single sweet taste, and some of the tastes are bitter or chemical strange. The taste of honey is mellow and the aftertaste is long. The throat feels slightly spicy and the after taste is long, giving people a feeling of sweetness and sweetness, or a slight sour taste.

Drop honey on a piece of white paper. If the honey is gradually oozing, it means that sucrose and water are mixed.