Chapter 33: We have no problem frying oil

The "burning gas" incident was a hot topic on the Internet, but in the real world it was calm, as if it had never happened. It was not reported on TV, not published in newspapers, and was not reported by any media other than the Internet.

At this time, it coincided with the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Television stations and related media from all over the country reported on the vigorous fitness of Chinese Olympic athletes. For a moment, everything was calm, and the whole country cheered for the Olympic athletes with harmonious voices.

But all this is an illusion, an illusion before the storm is about to come.

Health bureaus across the country have been notified to conduct covert inspections of McDonald's and KFC fast food restaurants to see whether this "throttle blowing" incident is an individual incident or a group incident, and whether all fast food restaurants have this phenomenon.

But whether it is an individual incident or a mass incident, health bureaus and municipal leadership teams across the country have been told to handle it in a low-key manner and not to cause an international incident at this juncture.

The reason is very simple. China is negotiating bilateral trade relations with the United States, and the Chinese government hopes that the United States can grant China the status of permanent normal trade relations. Therefore, this "explosion" incident involving two American Fortune 500 companies must be handled in a low-key manner.

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As a senior domestic official said privately: Chinese people have been eating fried dough sticks for thousands of years, and nothing has happened to them. Compared with McDonald's and KFC's fried oil, it is much cleaner. This is not a big deal.

What a big deal!

Third-party monitoring agencies hired by McDonald's and KFC conducted inspections of two fast food restaurants in Chu City and fast food restaurants across the country. They did not find "arsenic", a carcinogen, but found "propylene"

"Acrylamide", almost all the fried oil found in fast food restaurants contains "acrylamide".

(Acrylamide is a white crystal chemical substance and is the raw material for the production of polyacrylamide. About 90% of the acrylamide entering the human body is metabolized, and only a small amount is excreted in the urine in its original form. After acrylamide enters the body, it will react with

Guanine on DNA combines to form adducts, causing damage to genetic material and gene mutations.)

However, because the epidemiological data and animal and human biological marker data are insufficient for evaluation, it has not been determined whether acrylamide causes cancer in humans. According to surveys, it is currently impossible to eliminate acrylamide in the diet worldwide.

, so the two companies naturally selectively ignored it.

Later, third-party monitoring agencies hired by McDonald's and KFC secretly inspected the fried oil in Lam Feng's Qidian fast-food restaurants. However, to the disappointment of the two companies, the fried oil in all Qidian fast-food restaurants of Lam Feng was clean.

, without any impurities.

Looking at the evaluation report on the Qidian fast food chain uploaded on the screen, the presidents of the two companies shook their heads repeatedly.

"Crazy, crazy, this person must be crazy. There is no reason for a fast food restaurant to change the frying oil every six hours!" Jim Cantalupo, president of McDonald's, couldn't figure out why Lin Feng did business like this. He calculated

Lin Feng's costs, benefits, and profits are only about 0.5%. This is a business that any boss who is based on making money will never do.

"Chinese people are all crazy!" David Piao, the president of KFC, once again turned his attention to the "explosion of gas" incident and called on relevant national departments to give everyone an explanation.

Three days later, the growing wave of protests finally forced the country to hold a press conference.

At the meeting, the Minister of Health of the People’s Republic of China cautiously warned everyone that after more than 1,230 repeated inspections across the country, this “explosion of gas” incident was an individual phenomenon and had not been found in nearly a thousand other McDonald’s and KFC chain stores.

"Arsenic" is a carcinogen. I urge everyone not to panic and to eat it with confidence.

At the same time, McDonald's and KFC also held press conferences to refute the widespread rumors on the Internet that the frying oil of all fast food chains contains carcinogens, and explained in detail that the oil filter powder filters out impurities in the frying oil and is absolutely compliant.

According to China's "Hygienic Standards for the Use of Food Additives", all consumers should rest assured. The presence of carcinogens in frying oil is definitely an individual phenomenon and is by no means the cause of the filtered oil powder.

At the same time, all Chinese consumers are warned that there are hundreds of millions of people eating McDonald's and KFC around the world, and there has not been a single case caused by frying.

The majority of netizens do not agree with the statement of the Ministry of Health and McDonald's and KFC. Instead, they compare it with Lam Feng's Qidian fast food restaurant - why Lam Feng's Qidian fast food restaurant has no problem with frying oil, but as one of the world's top 500

A strong super company can cause carcinogens. Is this problem caused by the use of oil filter powder? We strongly request McDonald's and KFC to cancel the use of oil filter powder to filter frying oil.

In response to this question from netizens, the Ministry of Health, McDonald's, and KFC were all extremely embarrassed. In their hearts, they could only curse Lin Feng, a pervert, for how he could make money by changing the frying oil every six hours on average.

If you don't make money, why would you open a fast food restaurant?

At the same time, many netizens called on Qidian fast food restaurant to reveal the secret of why they did not detect any carcinogens in their fried oil. In response to the appeals of many netizens, Lin Feng secretly resented the Ministry of Health's concealment on key issues, so he changed his own food every six hours.

The method of frying oil at once is published.

This was like a blow to McDonald's and KFC. Many netizens immediately demanded that McDonald's and KFC announce the time when they would change their frying oil.

In this regard, McDonald's and KFC remained silent and did not give a direct answer. They only said that oil filter powder absolutely complies with the standards for the use of food additives in any country and there is absolutely no problem.

Many netizens were even more indignant at McDonald's and KFC's evasiveness. They loudly called on the country to formulate relevant laws to forcibly prohibit the use of oil filter powder in frying oil.

The Ministry of Health is extremely embarrassed by this request. The use of oil filter powder in frying oil is not only used by McDonald's and KFC fast food companies, but also by almost the vast majority of the catering industry - of course, more fried oil has been used

If it is not changed - if this set of regulations is forcibly formulated, the impact on the entire domestic catering industry will definitely be earth-shaking.

Under the premise of stability, harmony and steady development, this is absolutely not allowed. However, many netizens have been complaining about Lin Feng’s Qidian fast food chain. In addition, in order to create an absolutely healthy image of fast food restaurants in the hearts of Chinese people,

Lin Feng has been promoting Qidian fast food restaurant's concept of people-oriented and conscientious opening of stores, which really gives the Ministry of Health a headache, and is even a little angry at Lin Feng's lack of understanding.
Chapter completed!