Cancer!Netizens suggest that the sale of betel nuts, the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee: Research on relevant departments has been transferred

Recently, the Information Comprehensive Office of the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee responded on the message board of the People's Daily Online that the problem of prohibiting the sale of betel nuts reported by netizens has been transferred to relevant departments.

Earlier on September 19, some netizens proposed that in 1996, Xiamen City was completely banned from selling. Recently, Zhejiang was also following the ban on the sale of betel nuts. As a large consumer province of betel nut in Guangdong, there are also many young people around them who consume betel nuts. Does the government consider restricting or prohibiting the sales and consumption of betel nut?

On September 21, some netizens left a message that betel nut is so great that betel nuts are now banned in some areas of the country. When will Guangdong be banned?

Recently, betel nuts have attracted much attention.

On September 16, the WeChat public account of the Xinjin District Market Supervision Bureau of Chengdu released news that in order to further strengthen the supervision of the sales of betel nut products, recently, the Huaqiao Institute launched a special inspection operation of betel nut products. In this operation, the surrounding campus, supermarkets, convenience stores, small shopping malls, etc. as key inspection areas, in -depth investigation of illegal sales of betel nut, and use online takeaway platforms to retrieve illegal sales of betel nut merchants, and then conduct offline inspections to achieve precise blows Essence At present, a total of 10 food business units such as convenience stores, supermarkets, etc. have been checked, and 6 food operators have sold betel nut to sell betel nuts. They have been ordered to remove immediately.

On September 19, WeChat public account of the WeChat public account of Yingshan County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Nanchong City, Sichuan Province stated that each operator may not sell betel nuts and betel nut products of food packaging and labels; Immediately contact the food business unit to remove the shelves.

On September 20, the Nanchang Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Jiangxi Province issued a "Notice", requiring food operators in the city to not use betel nut products as food sales, requiring food operators to conduct self -inspection, and requiring the city's market supervision system to mislead the operators. Consumer sales labels are investigated and punished for illegal acts such as betel nut products that do not meet the requirements.

On September 23, the WeChat public account of the Guizhou Provincial Market Supervision Bureau of Guizhou Province released news that whether betel nut can continue to be sold into many businesses in Shuanglong Township. In response to this situation, the Shuanglong Branch of the County Market Supervision Bureau attaches great importance to it and immediately organizes a meeting of food safety propaganda training for market subjects in the jurisdiction.

At the meeting, the staff conducted relevant popular science education to the market entities, pointing out that betel nut has been listed by the International Cancer Research Agency (IARC) as Class I carcinogen. It is determined that chewing betel nut is closely related to diseases such as oral cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer. The health commission has not approved betel nut as a new food raw material, and it has not included it into the material directory of both food and Chinese medicinal materials. According to the news, after the meeting, all the operating entities said that they did not know the harm of betel nut before, and will no longer sell betel nut in the future, and take the initiative to remove the betel nut products immediately. At the same time The person no longer buy betel nut.

According to Ji Mu News, on September 23, in Xiangtan, Hunan, Hunan, the reporter contacted a lady in the head of a human company recruited by Xiangtan. She said that although the peak season of betel nut acquired in autumn, because of the incident of betel nut and other places in Zhejiang and other places, various manufacturers of Xiangtan were watching their changes and dare not blindly expand production. There was no plan to recruit workers for the time being.

Source: Surging News

Edit: Liu Yuhong

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