Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Vu Van Tam has signed a document to report to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on the verification of the dyeing of coffee and stone gravels using pin powder. Dak Nong province.
7 tons of pepper and impurities = 9 tons of pepper
According to a report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, on April 15, the Police Department of Environmental Crime Prevention (PC49) in Dak Nong Province cooperated with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in this province to irregularly inspect the purchasing facility of agricultural products due to Ms. Nguyen Thi Loan (Village 3, Dak Wer Commune, Dak R'lap District, Dak Nong Province) is the owner. Examination results found that in Ms. Loan's warehouse, there were many bags containing a mixture of coffee husks, small gravel and dried battery core powder with a total weight of nearly 21.3 tons. In addition, there are about 4 tons of gravel, 300 kg of coffee cover, 40 liters of black solution, 1 concrete mixer, 192 kg of battery core and 35 kg of crushed battery shell.
Ms. Loan claimed to have sold 3 tons of mixture to Thao Dung Production and Trading Co., Ltd. (Loc Ninh town, Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province). The company uses about 1.5 tons of mixtures with 7.5 tons of dried buckets to get 9 tons of pepper (not separated into categories of pepper, badger pepper and small pepper). This pepper is then sold to other collectors for preliminarily processing, processing and sorting.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the pepper is not sold directly to consumers as well as for direct export. About 1.5 tons of the remaining mixture, when the police discovered that Ms. Loan's establishment had violated Dak Nong, Dung had mixed it with lime, potassium and pig manure and hid it in the rubber tree lot to disperse. . The police promptly seized the material evidence for investigation.
Referring to the report of Dak Nong Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development affirmed that the locality had detected cases of low-quality coffee (low caffeine content), but had never found a similar incident in the province. .
Dak Nong police described impurity dyeing process with coal battery into pepper Photo: CAO NGUYEN
There is no ambiguity in the investigation
To date, Dak Nong Province Police Department has prosecuted suspects and detained 5 people for violations of food safety regulations, including: Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan (SN 1975), Nguyen Xuan Bao (SN 1985, Ms. Loan's husband), Phan Thi Dung (SN 1962, Director of Thao Dung Company), Tran Nguem (SN 1976; living in Nam N'Jang commune, Dak Song district) and Le Thi Hong Tho (SN 1979; living in the commune) Nam N'Jang, Dak Song district, Dak Nong province).
Regarding the incident, on May 31, Lieutenant Colonel Pham Thanh Binh, Head of the Police Department of Dak Nong Province, responded to information that there was ambiguity and staging in catching the impurity mixing incident. Dye the pin into the pepper.
According to Colonel Binh, Dak Nong Province's CSD has sufficient grounds to confirm that there were no unusual problems in the case. The process of checking, detecting and confiscating material evidences, instituting criminal proceedings, prosecuting suspects and detaining 5 suspects shall be conducted in accordance with the order, procedures and provisions of law.
In the course of investigating the case, the investigating agency clarified the criminal acts, motives, and purposes of the subjects to obtain the percentage of impurities and increase the weight of pepper seeds for the purpose of earning word. Phan Thi Dung herself, through Le Thi Hong Tho and Tran Ngo, ordered and bought the mixture to mix into pepper pepper. Knowing that Mrs. Loan and her husband created a mixture of coal, coffee husks and gravel with cheap price (from VND 12,000 to VND 25,000 / kg), Tho and Ngo bought the mixture to sell to Dung. After buying the mixture, Dung hired workers to mix it directly into the dry pepper at the rate of 18.34%, the total volume of pepper mixed with the mixture was 9 tons, packed in 360 bags waiting to be sold.
According to Colonel Binh, an expert of the Institute of Criminal Science (Ministry of Public Security) concluded that for the tons of pepper mixed with impurities seized at the warehouse of Thao Dung Company, 81.66% of the ingredients were pepper. There are also impurities including coffee crusts, crushed stone, battery powder containing components of manganese dioxide, zinc chloride accounting for 18.34% (these are substances not included in the list of permitted additives. used in food). The act of mixing these substances into food (pepper) is the prohibited behavior under the Ministry of Health's Document No. 02 / VBHN-BYT of June 15, 2015, guiding the management of food additives.
Before the doubtful information of public opinion about whether the blends with the battery core are really to make pepper as reported or to make … coffee batteries, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development proposed the Prime Minister to direct The Ministry of Public Security soon concluded its investigation, handled the case and made it publicized.
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