For essential items, especially everyday consumer goods like sugar, using low quality products causing serious...
For essential items, especially everyday consumer goods like sugar, using low quality products causing seriously consequences.
Dirty, fake sugar contain toxic chemicals
From 2018 to the end of September 2019, the functional forces checked, discovered, handled more than 876 cases, sanctioned administrative violations of over 1 billion VND, and seized more than 3,000 tons of smuggled sugar are worth over 12 billion VND.
Walking around large and small markets from big cities to rural areas, unlabelled elastic band bags with orange, yellow and white colors are displayed for sale at different prices.
A small trader said that did not know where the suppliers get their sugar or how to produce it: "but the customers demand and profit was good, so I take them to sell". According to this trader, she just use branded sugar bags with classified origins for her family.
Dirty, unbranded sugar are mostly bleached or colored with toxic chemicals used to produce industrial detergents, which are not on the list of food processing products such as Phosphoric Acid (H3PO4). Dirty sugar manufacturers choose this method of production to increase profits because toxic solutions will make the sugar heavier and have more eye-catching colors.
According to experts, the process of transform yellowing of white sugar to yellow sugar when using Phosphoric Acid is the hydrolysis of a surface on the sugar crystal surface. The color of the sugar will now be slightly yellow, with an eye-catching iridescent because it is the crystals.
A food chemical engineer at the Central Food Testing Center, said that phosphoric acid is a chemical that, if used in excess of concentrations and doses, can cause burns to the mucosa, stomach ulcers, which cause irritation, affect the nervous system, in the long term, can cause necrosis of the body parts.
The frightening is that dirty sugarproducts are mixed by concrete mixers instead of modern machinery lines to reduce production costs.
It can be said that the production and trading facilities of dirty and fake sugar are bringing these toxic products sneaking into people daily all over the country. Consumers whose use these products are not even recognize them.
An expert said the bright orange sugar being sold among the market is the raw material for making fish sauce for broken rice or a cheap cup of coffee might be mixed with yellow sugar tinted.
All brands are becoming targets
The problem of fake goods is really a big threat to the stability of the economy, the reputation of brands, the health of consumers ... although according to a recent report by ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD), counterfeit and pirated goods transactions have shown signs of decline over the past few years and now account for 3.3% of global trade.
Not only sneaking into traditional markets, fake sugar manufacturers also make the most of technology to deceive consumers.
The development of technology is both a tool has enabled brands to reach and attract customers better, promote sales faster, and at the same time, is intangibly created opportunities for counterfeiting departments take advantage of the reputation of brands more easily.
In the digital age, any business with a recognized brand can be targeted. It only takes a few minutes for a fake person to upload an image of a fake product and become a threat to businesses anywhere in any time.
One of the factors that make the success of a business is consumer trust. When dirty and fake sugar products are sold, many consumers do not know that the products they buy are fake and when the products do not meet expectations they will turn to blame the company. Gradually leads to the loss of confidence in the brand.
Now, with the explosion of e-commerce and communications, the line between real and fake has become much blurred. Dirty and fake sugar are dominating the market because of their low price, but with the production story behind them being exposed, since the health of the family, consumers should seriously consider and eliminate them immediately these kind of products.
Via by Tuoi Tre