Beijing issues food safety risk warning! This thing cannot be sold or eaten
2024-08-07
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On August 6, the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation issued a food safety risk warning, requiring food operators not to sell snails and reminding consumers not to eat snails.
The weaving snail, commonly known as the sea snail, sea snail, wheat snail or white snail, has a pointed and slender tail, about 1 cm long and 0.5 cm wide, about the size of a fingernail. Eating weaving snails can easily lead to food poisoning, causing symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting, numbness of the lips and fingers, and in severe cases, death.
According to the former Ministry of Health's "Announcement on the Prevention of Food Poisoning by Ornamental Snails" (Announcement No. 13 of 2012) and the former State Food and Drug Administration's General Office's "Reply on Issues Related to the Sale of Ornamental Snails" (Food and Drug Administration's Food Supervision No. 2 Letter [2016] No. 528), it is clearly stipulated that no food production and operation unit may purchase, process and sell Ornamental Snails.
Here, the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation reminds consumers to raise their awareness of self-protection, not to buy or eat snails, and to prevent poisoning from accidentally eating snails. If you accidentally eat snails and experience symptoms similar to neurological poisoning, such as numbness of the lips and mouth, you should go to the hospital immediately.
