How much is the harm of Penang?Is it far from the full ban?

Because of the news of Zhejiang Yiwu demanded that the merchant removed the betel nut, "banned the sale of betel nut" appeared on Weibo hot search again.

On September 20th, the staff of the Yiwu Market Supervision Administration (hereinafter referred to as "Yiwu Municipal Supervision Bureau) staff said," According to the food supervision department of Yiwu Municipal Supervision Bureau, it is not completely banned from sale of betel nut, but instead, but instead, it is Betel nuts cannot be sold according to food. They must be sold in the area, that is, the food category is sold together, which is a separate sales of betel nut products. It is sold alone like cigarettes. "

At present, the keywords of "betel nut" in Meituan takeaway Yiwu still have convenience stores and small supermarkets for betel nut. However, a convenience store owner told reporters: "We are going to get rid of betel nut. At present, we will not be sold, but how can I not know in the future, the Municipal Supervision Bureau may come in the past two days, and each small shop may come to remind I want to take it out, so we have to cooperate with the next two days. "

Not only in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, but also in some areas of Sichuan, it is also gradually strengthening the supervision of betel nut products.

On September 19, the WeChat public account of Yingshan County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Nanchong City, Sichuan Province released a news that in order to implement the "Notice on Strengthening the Supervision of Betel nut products" in the Office of the Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, each operator shall not sell foods for food Betel nuts and betel nut products that are labeled and label; those who sell betel nuts and betel nut products for food business places will immediately contact food business units to remove them. In addition, the Market Supervision Bureau of Xinjin District, Chengdu, Sichuan also has similar notifications.

The above -mentioned industry insiders questioned, "Including notifications issued by Yiwu, Nanchong and other regions, and carried out special operations of betel nut at the same time, but did not specifically say which legal or law is based on the actions."

"Betel nuts are not food, so what does it belong to? Is it industrial products, ordinary products or other products. There is no relevant guiding opinion to define what it is?" He said, "The notice also said that the sales of betel nut now need to be sold now. What kind of qualifications and what kind of permits need to apply, these are confusion in the industry. "

Betel nut harmful health is an indisputable fact.

A large number of public studies have shown that chewing betel nuts is seriously harmful to physical health. Long -term consumption not only makes people dependence, but also can cause oral cancer. The International Cancer Research Center (IARC) was determined that betel nut was a first -class carcinogen as early as 2003. In 2017, in the list of carcinogens published by the former National Food and Drug Administration, betel nut and betel nut chewing blocks were included in the first -level carcinogen.

In recent years, China's management of betel nut through formulation and control policies has become stricter.

The latest revised "Food Production License Catalog" in the State Administration of Market Supervision in 2020 does not include "edible betel nut", betel nut no longer as food management, nor can it be issued "Food Production License", betel nut as food production license And regulatory lack of basis. In September 2021, the State Administration of Radio and Television issued the "Notice on Stop using Radio and Television and online audiovisual programs to publicize and sell betel nuts and its products", which required stop using radio and television and online audiovisual programs to promote the sales of betel nuts and its products.

According to data from third-party agencies, the market demand in my country's betel nuts from 2016-2020 will be more than 100,000 tons. It is estimated that by 2025, the output value of China's betel nut industry will exceed 100 billion yuan. The upstream of the betel nut industry chain is Hainan's millions of betel nut planting farmers. The midstream is the Hunan betel nut processing enterprise and large -scale employment problem worth nearly 10 billion yuan. The professional sales team of downstream betel nut is also expanding to extend to the whole country.

The above -mentioned industry insiders said that since the "Catalog of Food Production License" in 2020, it has not been included in betel nut, which means that after betel nut is no longer managed by food, the betel nut industry has begun to face difficulties.

Recently, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other provinces are gradually strengthening the supervision of betel nut products. If the core sales provinces (including Hunan, Guangdong, and Hainan Province) have begun to "follow suit", then the betel nut industry will be a devastating blow. According to the data he provided, the three core provinces contributed more than half of the Chinese betel nut market.

(Interface News, First Finance)

Edit: Zhao Shanshan

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