Sheyang, Jiangsu, 200 tons per year, smoked chrysanthemum into the market

China Guangmao Sheyang News on June 8 (Reporter Zhou Yi) According to the Voice of China's “News Evening Peak” report, Yangma Town, Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province, is known as the hometown of Chinese medicinal herbs and is also known as the hometown of chrysanthemums. Because Yanma Town produces chrysanthemum, Chinese wolfberry, Chinese wolfberry and other Chinese herbal medicines, the production of chrysanthemum accounts for a considerable share. Many farmers who grow or process and trade also rely on chrysanthemum to make a home. However, about 200 tons of chrysanthemums are produced every year, and about 200 tons of chrysanthemums smoked with sulfur are flooded into the market.

Sulfur smoked chrysanthemums cost 5,000 yuan per ton. In Yangma Town, Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province, in the village of Medicinal Materials, the reporter saw a farmer put more than a dozen bags of chrysanthemum cake flowers on the open space in front of the roadside own house. Local villagers told reporters that this is a flower that has been smoked with sulfur. The reporter smelled and did not smell the pungent smell of sulfur. The villagers said that as long as the chrysanthemums smoked in sulphur are put under a ventilated condition, they will not smell the smell of sulphur. There are two types of chrysanthemum products: one is the bulk chrysanthemum known in the industry as the killing blue flower; and the other is a kind of cake flower, as its name implies, that looks like the shape of a cake, and it is this amount of cake that is smoked with sulphur. of.

The main process of chrysanthemum processing is dehydration, which is to remove the water from the chrysanthemum. In order to save costs, the traditional chrysanthemum manufacturing process is to fumigation through sulphur, destroy the surface wax, and play the role of drying. However, since 2005, the Chinese Pharmacopoeia no longer permits the use of sulphur fumigation. The reason is that chrysanthemum odor after sulphur fumigation will become acidic, causing loss of main components and affecting clinical efficacy, while residual sulphur dioxide will result in superposition of toxicity. An owner of a chrysanthemum business in Yanmar Town said that there are no chrysanthemums smoked in sulfur at the large chrysanthemum processing plant in Yangma Town, but farmers still use it.

Owner of the processing plant: The big processing plant is no longer used. The people use it at home. Without a processing plant, the flowers were lifted and hit with sulfur.

Reporter: To fight sulfur?

Owner of the processing plant: All the plants have processed 7,000 yuan of coal for processing electricity. When sulfur is used, there is only a little sulfur cost. There is no other cost. To put it bluntly, the removal of sulphur fees resulted in a cost difference of 4,51,000 tons.

Sulfur smoked chrysanthemums are not sold because no one has detected. There are also many people in Teyoung Town adjacent to Yanmar Town who are doing chrysanthemum business. The owner of a chrysanthemum processing factory in Teyo Town told reporters that the price of chrysanthemums smoked with sulphur It is no lower than normal dehydration because no one detects it.

Processing factory boss: It's not cheap at all. How much is this sulphur hit? Our whole chrysanthemum production area has 200 tons.

The bastard boss said that he had about 17 tons of chrysanthemum fumigated in his hand and that the market was in short supply.

Reporter: Where is 170 tons sold?

Processing factory boss: sold to Guangdong, Guangzhou Qingping market.

Reporter: Are there still people who want to smoke through sulfur?

Owner of the processing plant: Sulfur smoked all now (sold) crazy, in Yanmar. I just sent 500 kilograms to Guangzhou in the last few days. 50 pieces and 53 pieces of kilograms were cakes that were beaten with sulfur.

Reporter: What do they use after purchase? “

Processing factory boss: made chrysanthemum tea. Sold to Yunnan and Guizhou.

Reporter: Is it better and cheaper to kill blue and white flowers?

The processing plant owner: The people there adapt and like this kind of flower.

Reporter: What is the taste of tea made with flowers that are smoked with sulfur?

Owner of the processing plant: You haven't drunk?

Reporter: I drank chrysanthemum tea, but I couldn't drink any of the flowers that were smoked with sulfur.

Processing plant owner: Of course you can't drink it. (laugh)

Reporter: It's really a headache to do business. I don't know what you say is true or not.

Owner of the processing plant: I told you that the business we do is a list of 2 or 3 million. What I said was not a false one.

Test results: 23 times the sulphur dioxide content exceeds the standard. The reporter sent the sample of the pancakes taken from the farmer's hand to the Quality Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of the Agricultural Commercial and Commercial (Products) of the China Business Federation. The result was 2.3 grams of sulfur dioxide per kilogram. According to the China Association of Commerce and Industry's Agricultural Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center, according to national standards, no matter what the purpose of chrysanthemum is, the standard content is 0.1 g of sulfur dioxide per kilogram, which is equal to its sulfur dioxide content is beyond. 23 times is not qualified.

If the sulfur exceeds the standard, it should be harmful to the human body. Local farmers have a saying that it is odor when the cake is first smoked. After putting it in place for a period of time, for example, put a month under the ventilation conditions, sulfur dioxide will evaporate until it smells. Including reporters in the warehouse also smell the pungent temperature. However, according to the Bureau of Quality Supervision, even if the volatilization is slight, its sulfur still exists.