American red snake fruit, Vietnamese dragon fruit, New Zealand kiwi fruit, Thai durian .... National Day holiday, major supermarkets, fruit boutiques, imported fruits are placed in prominent places, because of the beautiful appearance, good taste, although expensive, but also very popular with the public.
However, the pre-WeChat Friends Circle or some public platforms frequently publish information on "import fruit labels with hidden secrets" and say that the word "8" begins with genetically modified fruits, which has caused many people to buy more. One eye. Do you know what the numbers on the fruit label mean? Where do so many imported fruits come from?
Consumers don't know the meaning of numbers.
In recent years, the abundance of shopping channels has caused more and more imported fruits to flow into the lives of Wenzhou consumers. During the National Day, the passenger flow of the Bailuzhou Renben supermarket was significantly more than usual, and the fruit in the fresh area was also particularly large. The reporter saw on the imported fruit shelf that compared to domestic fruits, most imported fruits were affixed with a small label, such as the number on the Chilean red Apple label was 4173. Green Apple's number is 4017 ... The reporter took a US snake fruit code 4016 and an imported lemon code 4958, and asked a number of consumers whether they knew the meaning of the fruit label. Some consumers say that "labels mean imported fruit, right? "Some guesses." This should be a code that distinguishes countries! "And I don't know what the above string of numbers probably means. Subsequently, reporters in Carrefour, Century Lianhua and other supermarkets, consumers also did not know the number on the label. In an interview, a middle-aged female consumer told reporters that she had read an article on WeChat about the possible existence of genetically modified fruit imports. The content of the article was already vague, but she said that although she could not remember it clearly, But my own subconscious is still somewhat influenced by the article, in the purchase of fruit will be inclined to domestic varieties.
Operator does not care about label content.
It is normal for consumers not to know about this, so does the operator know? The reporter called several staff members of the supermarket's fresh area and asked about the meaning of the numbers on the fruit labels. However, they were told that they did not understand. Afterwards, the reporter went to a fruit boutique supermarket near the Da Nan Men Farmers 'Market and saw that there were more imported fruits on the shelf, such as Mexican avocados, coded as 4046; American Simei, code 3278; Huangxin, New Zealand, code 3279; The American lemon, numbered 4958 ... The shopkeeper saw the reporter take a lot of fruit labels carefully and asked curiously: "What do these labels say? Several customers have been looking at the label again and again recently when they buy fruit. The store owner admitted that he had sold fruit for several years and had never paid attention to the information on the label. Wang, the head of the fresh food department at Carrefour Supermarket, could not clearly express the meaning of the information on the fruit label. He told reporters that All the fruit in the supermarket is supplied by a fruit supplier located in the fruit trading area of the Wenzhou Vegetable Basket Agricultural Subproduct Trading Center in Louqiao, Ouhai. According to the supplier, Ms. Chen, the fruit is not necessarily labeled as imported, nor does the import have to be labeled. Some are posted by the orchard, some are posted by the agent, and the meaning of the number on the label is equally ambiguous.
