Nongfu Spring's "Quality Storm" continues to ferment

Ma Jinya, secretary-general of the National Drinking Water Professional Committee of the Chinese National Health Association, said yesterday that the standard implemented by Nongfu Spring is not as good as the tap water standard. He said that any bottled water company must use the national mandatory standard - GB5749 "standard for drinking water" as the bottom line. If it is not enforced, it would violate the national food safety law.

Better than the tap water standard?

Last night, Nongfu Springs issued a statement on “quality disturbance” and insisted that “the product quality is always higher than any existing drinking water standard in the country and far better than the current tap water standard”.

However, public information showed that the product standard implemented by Nongfu Spring was Zhejiang Standard DB33/383-2005, which was proposed and managed by the Zhejiang Bureau of Quality Supervision, and Nongfu Spring as the only company representative to participate in the formulation. The simple comparison shows that the standard implemented by Nongfushangquan is loose in the limits of hazardous substances such as arsenic and cadmium in the national standard GB5749 "standard for drinking water", in which the limit of arsenic index is even relaxed to five times.

"Every enterprise producing bottled water should use the national standard GB5749 "Standard for Drinking Water" as the bottom line, which is a basic requirement." Ma Jinya said that drinking water refers to the usual tap water, "the bottled water standard requirements are low. Yu Guobiao GB5749 "standard for drinking water" is certainly not allowed, but should be higher than the standard."

For Nongfu Springs, “the product quality is always higher than any of the country’s existing drinking water standards and is far superior to the current tap water standards”, Ma Jinya said that it does not rule out the existence of “low corporate executive standards, but the actual product detection value is higher than the national The "standard" possibility, however, the low implementation of the standard means that there are some indicators of the risk of insecurity, "If the product standards are not as good as the tap water standard, talk about health and safety?"

Ma Jinya also said yesterday that Nongfu Spring's product standards are not as good as the tap water standard and are in violation of the National Food Safety Law. As Article 27 of the Food Safety Law clearly stipulates: Water for food production and operation shall meet the national hygiene standards for drinking water.

Local law enforcement retrogression?

Ma Jinya bluntly stated yesterday that from the perspective of the industry, local standards below the national standard cannot be filed, and the local hygiene standard registration department records the local standards below the national standard, which is a law enforcement retrogression. “Under the unnatural means of local enterprises, local standards that cannot be met even by national standard requirements have been filed. Once passed, the filing is equivalent to being legal and effective. Industry associations also hate such things. "Ma Jinya said.

Ma Jinya also disclosed that in response to the current problem of various drinking water standards in China, the Association is currently participating in the revision of the National Food Safety Standard, the Sanitized Packaged Drinking Water Hygienic Standard. In the future, all standards concerning the safety of drinking water in stereotyped packaging will be It should be included in the national food safety standards system.

Ipoh responds with accusations

In response to the accusation of “planned behind-the-scenes planners” by Nongfu Springs, last night, China Resources Cest Food & Beverage (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. issued a statement saying: “Our company has never given any form to the practices mentioned in the Nongfu Springs statement in any way. Participation; As a socially responsible company, our company has always opposed any behavior in which any company does not face its own problems, shirk its own responsibilities, and transfer its own crisis to its competitors by using the media to transfer public views; All rights to legal action."

It's time to hide

Regarding the “quality disturbance”, Nongfu Springs, in its statement issued the day before yesterday, focused its contradictions on the operation of its competitors, China Resources Bio-Yee, behind the scenes. Is this still awaiting investigation? If there are companies operating behind the scenes and maliciously attack competitors, it is definitely an unethical act. Previously, Mengniu had attacked Yili and Luhua had attacked Jinlongyu and other cases. The operators behind the scenes were eventually brought to justice and were ignorant to the industry and consumers.

However, the question that Nongfu Springs can not avoid is: Why is the number of pollutants in the Zhejiang standards that they participate in the formulation and implementation of loosening of the national standards? In the public statement, Nongfushangquan always evaded the most critical and most central issue of whether the product standards it implemented were lower than the national standards, but rather vaguely stated that “the product quality was better than the national standard”, and asked, the standard could not be achieved. The product of the national standard, where does the word “better” come from, and what does the consumer believe?

Nongfushangquan apologized to the skeptic - "said that the Nongfushangquan standard was inferior to the tap water and seriously damaged the reputation of Nongfushangquan". However, Nongfushangquan should understand that the reputation of food enterprises should be scored by consumers, and enterprises must first strictly enforce self-discipline. , integrity and law-abiding, otherwise it is self-destruction reputation.