"Plastic cabbage" storm: purple vegetable enterprises concentrated on receiving extortion calls.

　Online concentrated video, claiming that purple vegetables made of plastic
Beicing newspaper reporters on the purple vegetables to do combustion tests
bubble water purple vegetables in appearance similar to black plastic bags
Behind the storm, a number of business leaders involved in purple vegetables told the Beijing Youth Daily reporters that they had never produced "plastic purple vegetables", but recently they have received anonymous phone calls, saying that unless money is given, they will continue to spread "plastic purple vegetables" video.
Violet wave
network spread purple vegetables made of plastic
In the first video, the explosive man will be a wave of brand purple vegetables torn and soaked in tap water, bubble soft after taking out a few pieces of purple vegetables unfolded by hand scratched on the surface of purple vegetables, and said that the purple vegetable company is using plastic bags to make purple vegetables, while warning netizens to eat purple vegetables in the future "to pay attention."
second video, a woman places a large stainless steel pot in the same experiment to get a similar effect, and finally says to netizens, "Don't eat purple vegetables." In the third video, another woman experiments with Haijia's brand of purple vegetables, repeating them repeatedly in the course of the experiment, "made in black plastic bags", and says she finds the purple vegetables chewy during the course of eating them, and says the purple vegetables have a smell. In the video, the woman uses a lot of force to tear the cabbage to show that it is difficult to tear.
video to the network, it caused the netizens to retweet and hot discussion, many people said "dare not eat purple vegetables", but there are many experts disinformation, said that there is no "plastic purple vegetables" said.
China experiment
purple vegetables burning taste different from plastic
February 23, Beqing reporter from the supermarket to buy three brands of purple vegetables, three brands are produced in Fujian, including involved in the "plastic purple vegetables" wave of A wave of purple vegetables.
reporter of The North Qing Daily soaked three brands of purple vegetables into three cups of warm water, about two minutes later, the purple vegetables have been completely soft. Subsequently, the Reporter of the North Qing Daily took a few pieces of purple vegetables out of the warm water to carry out the experiment, found that the three brands of purple vegetables in the soft unfolded after the bright purple black, and the common black plastic bags are somewhat similar.
the purple vegetables with their hands unfolded and pulled, the North Qing Newspaper reporter found that some purple vegetables do appear elastic and unbreakable situation, by hand scratching the surface of the cabbage will also make a "hissing" sound. But after ignition burning, there is no smell of plastic burning.
, a reporter from bee qing newspaper found a black plastic bag to carry out the combustion experiment. After burning, the black plastic bag gives off a distinctly pungent plastic smell, which is completely different from that of cabbage.
A purple vegetable enterprise
has never produced
plastic purple vegetables
On February 23, a vice president of A1bo told the Beqing newspaper that Achibo never produced so-called "plastic purple vegetables". He said that the company produces purple vegetable products strictly implement the national food safety standards, the relevant food safety monitoring report company has been published to the official WeChat.
And Mr. Shi, the relevant person in charge of Haijia taste company, said in an interview with beech newspaper that in several videos, one of the purple vegetables used in one of the videos was the brand of Haijia flavor, "but at that time the bag was open, so we can not fully confirm that the purple vegetables in the video is produced by our company."
Shi said that the company produces every batch of purple vegetables have quality testing reports, the harvest of vegetables in the sea area farmers also have their own production and marketing proof, they do not produce the network said "plastic purple vegetables." As for the situation in the video, it said, because the immersion time is shorter, the water temperature is cooler, etc. can lead to purple vegetables difficult to bubble, pull constantly, etc. , the method in the video can not prove the material of purple vegetables.
, some aquatic experts in an interview with the media, said that the reason why purple vegetables are elastic, eating chewy, because there is joan gum inside. And the video of the purple vegetables "chewing, pulling constantly", there is also a possibility that the purple vegetables are relatively "old", that is, the content of arjun gum is relatively high, has nothing to do with plastic.
For how to distinguish between "plastic cabbage", A wave of the above vice president said that consumers can light cabbage and plastic bags to test, compared to the smell of burning, purple vegetable combustion has a special salty smell, and plastic burning smell is completely different.
For the storm
someone made an anonymous phone call to the enterprise to ask for money
Mr. Shi admitted that after the
plastic purple vegetables" video spread on the Internet, many businesses and supermarkets directly put their company's production of purple vegetables off the shelves, there have been a lot of recent returns and exchanges, but also received a lot of customer questioning phone calls, the company's normal production and operation has a great impact.
A wave of person in charge said that, according to past experience, this period in previous years is the purple vegetable enterprises to open full horsepower production and dealers to take goods, shop the golden period, but at present, the village purple vegetable processing enterprises are basically in a state of production, semi-discontinuation.
reporters in The North Qing Newspaper found that the "plastic purple vegetables" wave behind is not simple. On February 23, the head of A wave told the Beqing newspaper that someone had made threatening phone calls to the company and threatened to give them tens of thousands of dollars to ensure that the video would not be transmitted to the Internet. This is an anonymous phone call, the call number is also hidden by technical means.
Ningbo, chairman of a wave of companies, told the media that he had seen no fewer than 10 videos of "plastic cabbage" and was spreading at the rate of a new video every few hours. Among them, there are questionable consumers, there are hot public numbers, and even people who take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail.
similar situation occurred at Haijia, which Mr. Shi said also received mysterious anonymous calls asking the company for "a lot of money." According to him, there are a number of Jinjiang purple vegetable business leaders received this anonymous phone call, the content is all "for money."
, A wave of companies and Haijia taste company has reported the matter to the police. On the morning of February 21, Jinjiang Municipal Bureau of Oceans and Fisheries convened more than 20 member enterprises of Jinjiang City Purple Vegetable Processing Industry Association to discuss the response to the "purple vegetables made of plastic" network rumors, and reported to the public security organs.
Seconding authorities
did not find that enterprises doped with plastic
On February 21, Jinjiang City Purple Vegetable Processing Industry Association issued a joint statement on the matter, said that recently, some people through WeChat, Weibo and other platforms to publish videos suspected of violating the Zihua industry in Jinjiang City, malicious fabrication of "purple vegetables made of plastic" and other false content, has been found to have more than a dozen versions, is still shooting upload, seriously misleading consumers.
Jinjiang City Purple Vegetable Processing Industry Association on behalf of Jinjiang City dozens of purple vegetable enterprises declared that the production of purple vegetables there is no so-called "plastic purple vegetables" and other quality and safety issues, purple vegetables and plastic confusion, is a low-level common sense error. Purple vegetables and many vegetables, due to different harvesting time, taste, toughness will appear some differences, can be safe to eat.
statement said that the video of the fabricators and rumor-mongers, will be held legally responsible, but also please do not believe the rumors.
In addition, according to media reports, Jinjiang City Market Supervision And Administration of this organization carried out a special inspection of purple vegetables, for the "plastic purple vegetables" rumors affected by the purple vegetable company to carry out on-site sampling, samples sent to the laboratory testing, and to view the demand for tickets, storage and acceptance records. Through on-site inspection, Jinjiang did not find the phenomenon of enterprises doping the use of plastic or plastic products. Journalist Huang Wei Intern Journalist Liu Sijia Photography/Han Yu.