Formalism with Chinese Characteristics: Pesticide Residue Testing Room Completed

324 farmers’ markets in Nanjing have built fast food safety testing rooms.
Specialized personnel check the residues of pesticides, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, and other pollutants in vegetables every day , to check the “vegetable basket” of the people
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So far, this government-led project to benefit the people has been implemented for two years.

Sampling "just not bad"

At 7:20 on December 20, along the road at the corner of North Jiangning District Dongshan first farmers market, the reporter finally found close to the "vegetables on the door to detect ," the hut, duty officer told reporters: " detection members are generally 7:00 It's only after 40 minutes
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7:50, detection member Gong Ling door
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The reporter asked her how to do the test ? She said that there are three main steps: the first step is to sample, randomly sample leafy vegetables from the vegetable vendor; the second step is to soak the sample, which takes two to three minutes; the third step is rapid measurement, and the result can be obtained in four or five minutes

The reporter followed Gong Ling for random inspections
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She didn't wear gloves or a tray.

Back to the testing room, Gong Ling put 9 kinds of vegetable leaves, including spinach, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, and green cabbage, into 14 plastic dishes one by one, and soaked in the fruit and vegetable eluate
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In less than 1 minute, take out the leafy vegetables, pour the eluent from the dish into the test tube, and drop the quick-testing potion into the test tube.

According to the "Nanjing Farmer's Market Food Safety Rapid Testing Room Construction Regulations", more than 30 batches of samples are taken every day in the urban farmer's market, and the sample number must be sealed on the spot, and the tested stall owner must sign and confirm it
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The test samples should also be cut into uniform slices for testing, and each sample should be tested at least twice

The Yuanjiang Road Farmer’s Market, opened in 2014, covers an area of ​​3,700 square meters and has nearly 200 stalls.
It is the largest farmer’s market in Gulou District
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At more than 4 pm on the 19th, the reporter came to the rapid testing room in the market and saw test tubes and medicaments piled on the table randomly.
A tester was looking down at his mobile phone
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As a grocery buyer, the reporter asked: "Can you detect pesticide residues in vegetables?" He replied: "The potion has been discontinued for several days

The so-called test result was 7 days ago

At around 7 o’clock on December 21st, the reporter saw a white board leaning against the window at a corner of the Ningnan Fresh Market in Yuhuatai District, and wrote the “Pesticide Residue Detection Result Bulletin in the Market ”, involving 8 stallholders and more than 20 kinds.

The market manager explained that the test is done by two people, one is an office comrade, and the other is a mushroom vendor Gu Jindong
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When the reporter found Gu Jindong, busy business he hastily replied: " Detection member of Di-cold these days, detect stopped

　　Similarly, on December 19, the " results of pesticide residue testing " announced at Dongshan No.
1 Farmers' Market was also "fixed" on December 16 three days ago
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Detection ledger Ling Gong members provide only recorded December 16, three days Ledger asked why not remember? She said "all are qualified"
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According to regulations, the test results must be publicized every day and data entry must be performed
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Otherwise, there is a suspicion of fraud
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　　Food safety supervisors must first "heart"

　　"Vegetables, fruits, are a herd of color into the wholesale market of goods, where it has passed the pesticide residues detected , to the market which again will you have problems?" Qinhuai District tiandun farms detection member Yuhua money, say a lot of market management Fang's "heart talk"-"not caring about food safety"
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　　In fact, some market managers do not pay much attention to testing
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For example, in many farmer's markets, the vegetable testing room and the management office are "combined into one", which does not meet the requirements of the testing room construction regulations formulated by Nanjing
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Another example is that many testing personnel have not received special training, and many of them are vendors who work part-time.
The authority and impartiality of testing can be imagined
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　　From this year onwards, the Nanjing Farmers Market’s vegetable testing has been placed under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration from the Bureau of Commerce
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The staff of the Food Circulation Supervision Division of the Nanjing Food and Drug Administration stated that they are currently only encouraging market entities to build vegetable rapid testing rooms, and supervision is gradually being put in place
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She confessed that the city can't even come up with a statistical data to know how many rapid vegetable testing rooms have been built in the city's farmers market
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Although there are construction standards and norms, it is difficult to implement
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　　Some citizens told reporters that the full coverage of vegetable testing rooms is a good thing, but if market managers don’t do their best, and testing personnel are perfunctory, wouldn’t the city’s investment of more than 10 million yuan to build testing rooms fail? (Gong Ling is a pseudonym in the text)

　　Our reporter Huang Yong