Changsha carcinogenic pepper only for extended shelf life

CreateTime:2013-08-07 Count:397

 According to Xinhua News Agency to make chili color glossy, selling a good friend and extend shelf life, even the use of industrial sulfur smoked out a few kilograms carcinogenic 'sinister pepper.' Recently, Changsha urban villagers Wang Xiong produced by this method because, Sales chili arrested by the judiciary.

According to the survey, Xiong five years ago in Yuhua District, Takahashi Market Trade City opened a 'bear in mind wholesale department,' chili business operations due to extremely hot and humid weather makes peppers hot rot, causing serious losses, Xiong It was learned later used industrial sulfur smoked chili easy to store and sell, then rented an abandoned shed kilns, production and sales through industrial sulfur smoked chili(http://www.best-news.us/).

 

According to Xiong confessed that he used industrial sulfur smoked chili total of about 3(Shanghai Station News http://www.best-news.us/).5 kilograms, sold in Changsha, Yueyang Liuyang and other places. Smoking process, the workers need to wear gas masks and gloves, smoked completed, the need to place twelve days , sulfur odor to scattered. Notably, Xiong also sold wholesale to a number of chili food plants, by the latter for processing lo fish, spicy chicken, soy and other foods.

According to test results, these were seized in the 'sinister pepper', every kilogram of sulfur dioxide residue chili reaches 4.66 g, 23 times as high as the national standard. Currently, the judiciary is the case for further investigation.

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