Beijing News: Industrial Salt can't control

"Industrial salt" once invaded the salt market, the downstream of many food industry will pose a threat, however, in reality, the "industrial salt" regulation, and "industrial salt" in food safety in the important position of serious mismatch. Recently, Jiangmen City, Guangdong province to investigate a suspected use of industrial salt production of salted egg dens, seized 52,500 fresh duck eggs, salted duck eggs finished 102,200, as well as the processing of salt eggs 2 tons of industrial salt. It is reported that the dens produced more than 3,000 salted eggs a night, wholesale to a number of local markets. (Xinhua News agency, June 2) Gao Mingwei Company's "Industrial salt sauce" has not subsided, "industrial salt salted eggs" turned out again, careful people are not difficult to find in recent years, industrial salt blending soy sauce.　　Industrial salt production of kimchi and other news has been exposed, industrial salt seems to be the lingering shadow of food safety. So, "industrial salt" can not control?　　Salt is the basic raw material of food production, "industrial salt" once invaded the salt market, the downstream of many food industry will pose a threat, however, in reality, the "industrial salt" regulation, and "industrial salt" in food safety in the important position of serious mismatch. For example, our current edible salt standard, to whether to add iodine as a standard for the identification of fake salts, does not stipulate that the fake salt contains which ingredients may seriously affect public health, which will bring about the investigation of industrial salt is very difficult.　　For this reason, it is very easy to demolish an "industrial salt-salted egg" production point, but it is very difficult to detect "industrial salted eggs" from the retail market. Also, at present, for industrial salt production and sales, the crackdown is far from enough. Generally speaking, as long as the industrial salt did not lead to casualties or a wide range of adverse effects, often only the responsibility of the administrative punishment, fraud counterfeiting easy to reopen.　　Such a low cost of illegal, it is difficult to play a warning role. In addition to regulation, industrial salt exposes the disadvantages of the Salt franchise system. Unscrupulous businesses favor industrial salt, because, relative to edible salt, industrial salt is too cheap, thousands of yuan a ton and hundreds of yuan a ton, the highest price difference nearly 10 times times.　　Such a high raw material price difference, for soy sauce, pickled products, such as high consumption of salt industry, the temptation is too large, some people will take risks. In fact, the cost of salt production is very low, and the general industrial salt costs no obvious difference, basically in a ton of about hundreds of yuan, however, because of salt franchise, salt prices have long been at a very high level, if the franchise system to liberalize the introduction of competition mechanism, salt prices will be greatly reduced, and industrial salt between the spreads will shrink,　　So the temptation of industrial salt is naturally greatly reduced.　　Visible, to control the "industrial salt", we need to improve the standard of edible salt, strengthen the supervision of the food industry with high consumption of salt, strict criminal investigation of industrial salt production and sales, and the reform of salt franchise should be put on the agenda as soon as possible. -Beijing News commentator Flat