Deputy Minister of Agriculture responds to "carcinogenic milk"

Gao Hongbin, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture and president of the China Feed Industry Association, told reporters at the China Youth Daily that he did not approve of the media's over-hype of “carcinogenic milk”.

Gao Hongbin was interviewed after attending the National Agricultural Consultative Conference of the CPPCC. In response to the end of last year, Mengniu Dairy Company's batch of pure milk was detected as a carcinogen aflatoxin M1 exceeded the standard, Gao Hongbin said that only one batch of milk found a problem, but the spread of the matter "is too serious ".

"You said that you had cancer, it had to eat a few tons, and it took a few years to become cancerous?" he said.

The "Lean Culinary" pork incident in Henan Province that was exposed last year has made clenbuterol the focus of public attention. In February of this year, Gao Hongbin specifically visited the county's "Clean" meat event in Lijin County, Dongying City, Shandong Province. He emphasized that the quality and safety of livestock products are related to the people's health and related to the image of the government. They must crack down on illegality. Add "lean meat" behavior.

Today, he told reporters that the issue of illegally adding "lean meat essence" is a matter of concern to everyone, and the Ministry of Agriculture attaches great importance to it. However, at the same time, he also said: "On such individual and individual fields, there are individual problems. The whole society has grown up in boiling water. It seems that no one can eat."

On March 6, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Supervision over the Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products." It pointed out that the quality and safety of China's agricultural products have maintained a trend of "overall stable and gradually improving" in recent years. The Ministry of Agriculture will continue to focus on the illegal addition of "Clenbuterol," etc., implement the entire chain of bans and supervision, and strictly prevent the spread and spread of cattle, sheep and other aquaculture areas. We will carry out in-depth rectification of milk stations and crack down on all kinds of illegal activities that add illegal substances to raw milk.