Harm of refined salt

As one of the "seven things to open the door", salt is inseparable from every household. With the improvement of people's living standards, people began to pay attention to eating salt, and refined salt has gradually replaced the raw salt with many impurities. However, some unscrupulous traders take advantage of people's psychology of "refining salt" and even process refined salt with industrial salt to seek ill-gotten gains. Recently, Shanghai's industrial and commercial departments have stepped up their efforts to crack down on illegal traders.

Yang from Anhui is such an unscrupulous vendor. He took a fancy to the characteristics that Shanghainese want to eat refined salt, and made fake refined salt for profit. Yang rented a private house as a production site in the suburbs, and recruited several outsiders from the society. The work assigned to them every day is to crush the industrial salt he bought from the chemical plant with a pulverizer, and then put it into a plastic bag with the words of some private printing houses in other places printed on it, sealed with a sealing machine and affixed with privately printed anti-counterfeiting signs, thus completing the whole production process of refined salt. Yang knew that the fake refined salt he made was difficult to enter the shelves of regular supermarkets and large food stores, so he turned his attention to individual restaurants and private grocery stores and delivered it to your door at a low price. Actually, business is very good. When he is busy, he has to deliver goods by truck. If the industrial and commercial departments hadn't quickly sealed up and destroyed his fake dens according to the reports of the masses, I wonder how many fake refined salt would have flowed into the market.

Fang, known as "Awang", is a small owner of a grocery store, but his grocery business is surprisingly good. People often come to his shop to order goods, especially refined salt, which is packed in sacks. What is even more puzzling is that the price of the salt he approved is particularly cheap. In general stores and supermarkets, every 0.5 kg of refined salt marked with low sodium is 0.6 yuan, while Awang sells the same weight of refined salt for only 0.45 yuan, with a gross profit margin of 25%. Someone asked him, "How can you make money at such a low price?" At this time, "Awang" always laughs and doesn't answer. It was not until recently that the industrial and commercial departments searched for the source of counterfeiting in the market that this mystery was revealed to the world: "Awang" opened a grocery store, with selling groceries in front and fakes in the back. He bought industrial salt at the price of one ton of 250 yuan, made it into so-called "refined salt", and then approved it at the price of one ton of 600 yuan, in which the profit reached 140%. Therefore, although the gross profit margin of the salt he approved is 25%, after deducting this gross profit, he naturally has rich profits. No wonder his business is so good.

According to health experts, industrial salt contains high nitrate, which will bring harm to human body, especially to the kidneys of teenagers and the elderly. Therefore, health experts remind people to go to regular supermarkets and big stores as much as possible when buying refined salt, and never go to some small grocery stores for cheap and convenience. It is hoped that industry and commerce will strengthen the supervision of the salt market and prevent illegal traders from putting industrial salt into the market.