Yue Longshan Rice wine is said to contain carcinogens in response to a safe drink

Two of its rice wine products in Hong Kong were found to contain a possible cause of cancer of the Ethyl carbamate (EC), June 15, Yue Longshan (600059.SH) responded that its yellow rice wine product safety. The company announced that the EC is prevalent in a variety of alcoholic beverages and other fermented foods, is produced in the process of natural fermentation, is not artificially added, rice wine products safe and reliable, consumers are assured to drink. Yue Longshan said that the current international food and alcohol in the direct EC content control regulations are less, China's alcohol EC has no standard requirements. And no case of carcinogenic cases of drinking rice wine has been found. At the same time, the National rice wine product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center (hereinafter referred to as the inspection center) also said that the reported EC widely exists in alcoholic beverages and other fermented foods for natural fermentation, not artificially added. Media coverage of the Yue Longshan, Tower Licensing 3 of wine in the EC content is far lower than the EU countries and other countries, fruit brandy limit standard, consumers can be assured to drink. The test center said that the EC content in alcohol is high and low, the highest for fruit brandy. At present, the international regulation of the EC content of food and alcohol is different, in which the EC requirement of EU fruit brandy is less than 400 micrograms/liter, France and Switzerland are less than 1000 micrograms/liter. According to the data reported by the media, the EC content in the 3 wines is 200 micrograms/liter to 260 micrograms/liter, far below these regulations. Inspection Center said that Yue Longshan and other enterprises are the leading enterprises of Chinese rice wine, over the years, the National Wine Quality Inspection center of the results of the previous inspection in line with national standards. Earlier, the Consumer Council of Hong Kong tested some alcoholic beverages, 3 of which claimed that products from Zhejiang were found to contain a higher proportion of the potentially carcinogenic ethyl carbamate. The content of ethyl carbamate is 0.2 mg to 0.26 mg per kg, of which "Yue Longshan authentic Shaoxing aged Huadiao (five years)" has the highest content. Yue Longshan also confirmed that the exposure of the two possible carcinogenic rice wine, belong to the company's leading products in the sale, but two of the annual sales of products accounted for the share is not very clear. Yue Longshan June 15 shares closed at 14.59 yuan, down 0.64 yuan, or 4.2%.