Several videos of "plastic laver" have been widely circulated online recently. In the videos, some people claim that laver produced by a number of enterprises in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, is "made of plastic" and advise netizens to "stop eating it". The person in charge of a number of laver companies involved told Beijing Youth Daily that they had received anonymous calls recently, saying that unless they paid money, they would continue to spread the video of "plastic laver" and had reported the case to the police. On February 27, Jinjiang Ocean and Fisheries Bureau related staff said that Jiangxi public security organs have locked two rumourmongers.

On February 23, the person in charge of a Yibo company told Beiqing Daily reporter that someone had made a threatening phone call to the company and threatened to give them tens of thousands of yuan to ensure that the video would not spread to the network.

Sea Jia taste company also happened in a similar situation, the person in charge Mr. Shi said, they also received a mysterious anonymous phone call, the content is also to the company for "a lot of money". According to him, there are a number of Jinjiang laver business leaders received this anonymous phone, the content is all "for money."

On February 21, the Jinjiang laver processing industry Association issued a joint statement in response to the matter, saying that recently, some people released videos suspected of violating the Jinjiang laver industry through wechat, Weibo and other platforms, maliciously fabricating false content such as "laver is made of plastic", has been found to have more than a dozen versions, and is still shooting and uploading, seriously misleading consumers.

After the incident, Jinjiang Marine and Fisheries Bureau convened members of the Jinjiang laver processing industry Association, and reported the maliciously defaming laver products to the public security organs.

On February 25, local media said that the public security organs have locked down two publishers of rumors. On the afternoon of February 27, Lai, chief of the news center of Jinjiang Ocean and Fisheries Bureau, told Beiqing Daily reporter that two rumormongers were locked up by Jiangxi public security, and the others were not clear. Lai Section chief said that in the "plastic laver" storm, the entire Jinjiang laver industry lost about 100 million yuan, mostly supermarkets and some stores require returns and exchanges, but now this situation has been reduced, "the storm is almost over". Lai said that next, the Jinjiang Marine and fisheries Bureau plans to do positive publicity for laver, in order to recover the reputation of the "plastic laver" incident, and will deeply popularize the processing process and common sense of the laver industry to the public.

On February 27, Mr. Shi, the relevant person in charge of Haijia Flavor company, told Beiqing Daily reporter that it is not possible to determine whether the suspect is the two people who are locked, and other circumstances are inconvenient to disclose.

Mr. Shi admitted that after the "plastic seaweed" video spread on the Internet, many businesses and supermarkets directly put their company's production of seaweed off the shelf, recently there have been a lot of return and exchange behavior, but also received a lot of customers questioned the phone, the company's normal production and operation caused a great impact. He said that there is no way to calculate the specific amount of losses, "can only say that a very large amount." Mr. Shi admitted that at present, the whole seaweed industry has no very effective way to solve the current dilemma, only through their own way to refute rumors or catch suspects to recover reputation.

Article/Our reporter Huang Xiaojing Intern reporter Liu Sijia

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