Yesterday, our newspaper reported that "A number of famous brand mooncakes were accused of packaging containing plasticizers" (see Dongguan Observation A II 03 edition) out of the street, caused a lot of readers' attention. Some readers asked questions: whether Dongguan has carried out a random inspection of the mooncakes sold in the market this year? How is the sampling going?

Involved brands responded that the test results were qualified

Yesterday, this newspaper reported that some netizens reproduced a report on "8 brand mooncake packaging containing banned plasticizers", Which involves the brand Guangzhou restaurant, Lianxiang floor, Hong Kong Mei Xin, Hong Kong Ronghua, Macau Yonghui and other 8 consumers are familiar with the Chinese foreign brand mooncakes.

"All our mooncake trays have inspection reports issued by third-party professional organizations, and all of them are qualified." In response to this incident, Mr. Chen, responsible person of Ronghua mooncake in Dongguan, said yesterday that according to GB/T16288-2008 "Signs of plastic products", a triangular number symbol will appear at the bottom of the plastic packaging box, and the mooncake trays used by Ronghua mooncakes are products with "5" this sign.

He told reporters that with this number of moon cake tray, can resist 140 degrees of high temperature, oil, acid and other characteristics, "we are afraid of moon cakes are polluted, so the moon cake tray has strict purchase requirements."

Hong Kong Mei Xin Group public relations people yesterday also responded that all Hong Kong Mei Xin mooncakes are made in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Mei Xin mooncakes sold in the Mainland have obtained the "Imported Food Hygiene Certificate" issued by the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, through the specified testing items, including plasticizer tests, all products are qualified and meet the food safety standards of mooncakes.

"The mooncake trays used had also been commissioned by an independent laboratory in Hong Kong before being put into use, and the test results showed that no plasticizer DEHP or DBP had been detected." The person said that to reassure consumers, they have taken another sample of Hong Kong Mei Xin mooncakes in the mainland market and sent them to the mainland's official food quality supervision and inspection agency for testing.

The person in charge of the food department of the Quality Supervision Bureau of Dongguan City also gave the same answer to this statement. The person in charge told reporters that the mooncake cakes used by the enterprise are generally purchased, when the enterprise buys such products, it is necessary for the supplier to provide a qualified third-party testing agency test report, the test report will have plasticizer such projects.

Dongguan mooncake sampling results "basically qualified"

Then, this year, the municipal quality Supervision Bureau has to Dongguan mooncake sampling inspection? What is the result of sampling? The person in charge told reporters that before the production of mooncakes this year, the quality Supervision Bureau held a special symposium to allow enterprises to reflect relevant problems and put forward relevant solutions, in order to prevent some quality problems in advance. Due to this year's business is difficult to do, many mooncake enterprises in Dongguan last week mass production, so far sampling inspection of mooncakes is not much, "from the current existing sampling results, in addition to individual identification problems, the quality of mooncakes are basically qualified."

The responsible person said that the current sampling work is still in progress, the overall sampling results will be released before the Mid-Autumn Festival. (Reporter/Liu Muhua)

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