Yiwu asked to get off betel nuts to be permanently prohibited as food sales

Zhejiang News Client reporter He Xianjun

On September 20, the reporter confirmed from the Yiwu Market Supervision and Administration Bureau that the city is currently guiding the betel nut salesperson to remove the shelves, which is also a unified requirement in the province.

"We received a notice on the 16th, saying that we were going to be removed, and the goods that were originally needed the next day were suspended." A convenient shop owner told reporters in the convenience store owner of Futang Town, Yiwu City.

The reporter learned that except for the Buddhist temple, the Two Lili Street, Yiwu, and other township stores in the main urban area received a notice from the shelves, but it was oral notice and no relevant documents were seen.

Relevant staff of the Y part of the Y part of the Y part of the Yuxi City Supervision Bureau said that the situation of betel nut off the shelves is true. They are implemented in accordance with the notifications of relevant departments in the province, and they are not their own policies.

“月初我们就接到省局的通知，说禁止槟榔作为食品销售，这个禁令基本是永久的，现在我们在引导商户对正在销售的槟榔进行下架处理。”该工作人员告诉记者，现在他们并Instead of engaging in a knife, but gradually guiding the merchants to remove the merchants according to the specific situation of the streets and towns. After the entire work is completed, if the merchant sells betel nut again, it will face corresponding punishment. "The specific punishment standards must also be mainly based on the provincial bureau."

Betel nut has been controversial. Especially on September 10th, 36 -year -old singer Fu Song died of oral cancer. The cause of cancer was for 6 years of betel nut. Since then, the call for betel nut for the sale of betel nuts has once again set off a climax.

In my country, there are betel nut planting in Hainan, Yunnan, Fujian, Taiwan and other places. According to the information released by the China Market Supervision News, from 2011 to 2018, the output value of the betel nut industry in my country rose from 55.8 billion yuan to 78.1 billion yuan, and it has been always always It will continue to rise, and it is expected to exceed 100 billion yuan by 2025.

According to the data, in 2017, the former State Food and Drug Administration included betel nut fruits in the first -class carcinogen; in 2019, the Hunan Pena Food Industry Association requested all betel nut production enterprises in Hunan Advertising; in 2020, the latest version of the "Catalog of Food Production License" canceled the category of "Betel nut"; on September 17, 2021, the General Office of the State Administration of Radio and Television issued a notice to request to stop using radio and television from now on. And online audiovisual programs to promote the sales of betel nut and its products.

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