A few decades ago people grew vegetables and fruits in gardens and gardens, exchanged with neighbors, stood in long lines to literally get the necessary food.
In the minds of modern youth, stories of older people about empty counters in stores are unlikely to fit in, and there could be no talk about a cafe. In the modern world, the market for food and catering services is so diverse that it is difficult to imagine such volumes. Buy - I do not want! And everything would be fine, but unfortunately, at times the quality of some products leaves much to be desired. So, 25 food scandals, which affected customers know firsthand.
1. Frozen frozen meat from China
In 2015, China's largest smuggling of meat was discovered - $ 500 million. In addition to everything else, the meat was overdue: on some pieces, the marking was from the distant 70's! Naturally, the storage conditions were not met: smugglers repeatedly thawed and frozen the already damaged meat.
2. Bottled water from the tap
People who buy bottled water think that it is at least filtered. However, a huge number of companies producing bottled water simply recruit it from the tap, without bothering to conduct minimal procedures for cleaning it. Think twice before laying out a tidy sum for a "certified" product.
3. Club donut fans "Krispy Kreme"
A well-known incident occurred with a network of Krispy Kreme coffee houses in England - the company posted an advertisement: "KKK Wednesday", where the abbreviation KKK was deciphered as "Krispy Kreme Klub". But the organizers did not even suspect that there was a racist group in the United States with an identical combination of letters. The guys worked quickly: they apologized and changed the sign.
4. Lead instant noodles
Nestle's products accounted for about 80% of the Indian noodle market, until laboratory tests showed that the lead content in Maggi instant noodles is 7 times the allowable limit. This scandal strongly affected both the reputation of Nestle and its finances: the company destroyed about 400 million Maggi packages, while spending more than $ 50 million taking into account the recycling and recall of goods from the market.
5. The misfortune of vegans
Most people who consider French fries in McDonald's as a vegetarian product are deeply mistaken. It was found that the recipe for the world-famous potatoes in McDonald's includes "a small amount" of meat flavor, and forgive the vegan who invented it ...
6. Toxic Wheat
In 1971, the Middle East suffered a severe drought, which almost led to massive famine. There was a way out of the situation, but no one suspected how sad everything would end. The grain consignment was imported into Iraq for sowing from Mexico, but the wheat was etched with methylmercury and was not intended for consumption. For a number of reasons, including because of ignorance of the local language, on which warnings were written, and the delay in delivery to the planting season, the grain was consumed by residents of several villages. They had impaired coordination and loss of vision. There were 459 cases of brain damage in humans. Moreover, the poisoned grain was disposed of in a local stream, the inhabitants of which also suffered badly.
7. Forgery of olive oil
The results of the research of the California Institute in Davis showed that more than 65% of the extra-class olive oil (cold pressed) produced in the Mediterranean is counterfeit and does not meet international standards. The finished olive oil was diluted with conventional sunflower oil.
8. Sweetened water instead of apple juice
In 1987, Beech-Nut was accused of fraud. Instead of 100% natural children's apple juice, as indicated on the package, sugar sweetened by water came on the market. Companies have imposed a fine of $ 2 million.
9. 50 to 50
According to the results of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's research, it was found that the chicken meat used in Subway fast food restaurants is only 50% natural, the remaining 50 - soy protein.
10. Sleight of hand and no fraud
The company Hampton Creek failed, having turned the "scam in American way": it overstated the sales figures of its products Mayonnaise Just Mayo, buying it, and then declaring good results to not very well-informed investors.
11. Cumin instead of nuts
In the UK, the Agency for the Standardization of Foodstuffs took samples from caraway packages. The result of the study confirmed the presence of a small amount of nuts in them. There is a version that caraway suppliers used nuts to level demand and supply, but did not think about people with an allergic reaction to nuts.
12. Burger King and horseflesh
Popular among young people, the fast food cafe Burger King claims that it uses 100% natural beef while preparing the dishes, but is it really so? .. The torn contract with the Irish meat supplier (as it turned out later - horse meat) confirms the opposite ...
13. The mad cow disease
For the first time, mad cow disease was recorded in the UK in 1986. It is believed that it was caused by the feeding of livestock meat-bone meal, made from the remains of "infected" animals, in particular, sheep. Later, more than 200 deaths of people were identified from a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In this regard, many countries banned the import of beef from the UK.
14. The Nedojenza
China is also "famous" for its scandal with fake eggs. The egg shell was made from calcium carbonate, yolk and protein - from sodium alginate, gelatin and edible calcium chloride. In the fact that water, food color, starch and thickener were added. Om-Nom-nom…
15. Mysterious KFC Meat
KFC - a crazily popular fast food restaurant in China ... was ... until the information surfaced that the meat supplier mixed fresh meat with meat that had expired.
16. Radioactive oatmeal
In the 1940s and 1950s, a group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were paid a huge cash compensation when the fact that they were fed without radioactive oatmeal came to the surface. Over one hundred students participated in the so-called "experiment".
17. Watermelon-bombs
In one province in eastern China watermelons exploded like shells on the battlefield. According to one of the versions, the farmers themselves are to blame for this, who cultivated the crop with a so-called growth hormone, which is allowed to be consumed in limited quantities.
18. Meat of Taco Bell
Lovers of meat Taco Bell found that it is only 88% natural. The company confirmed this information on its official website, adding that the remaining 12% is replenished with food additives approved by the Food Control Office to give a special taste and consistency.
19. Extra kilograms
A widespread but dishonest way to increase the weight of the product is to add water (with a syringe, or with a permanent defrost and freeze). Especially often it is resorted to in hypermarkets - an inattentive buyer will not notice how he spends money not for meat, but for water.
20. Glowing pork
A resident of China discovered that meat, bought in one of the supermarkets, glows in the dark. The information leaked in the media plunged everyone into shock. Subsequently, experts from the Shanghai Department of Health argued that pork was infected with a phosphorescent bacterium.
21. Rat meat instead of lamb
Another fraud in the Chinese food business: the sale of rat meat, mink and fox instead of beef and mutton. 63 people were arrested during three months of an active campaign conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. In addition to the false labeling, the criminals used illegal substances while processing meat.
22. Fresh rolls
In 2009, Hardee's company produced an advertising series of signboards called "Fresh rolls", where a female hand feels the baking very similar to ... "women's buns". No insinuation ...
23. Pink "something"
In 2012, the director of the beef production company introduced a new product, called "pink slime". The masses did not take the novelty, and fast food restaurants refused to buy the goods, despite the fact that it passed the control of the US Department of Agriculture. As a result, the company lost $ 400 million and was forced to close 3 plants. However, the pink "something" has recently returned to the American market.
24. Ground black ... dirt
In China, another scandal broke out around poor-quality food. This time it's pepper. Someone found out that there was dirt instead of pepper. When one of the journalists asked the pseudo-pepper vendor how he decided to do this, he replied that this is not a poison, and there is absolutely nothing to fear, since no one will die from it.
25. Lead paprika
In Hungary, paprika is the most popular seasoning, which is often used by all the chefs of the country. And now imagine their faces when people began to die of paprika containing lead. Apparently, the manufacturer in this way wanted to increase the demand for paprika. In total, 60 suspects were detained, but this damage, unfortunately, did not affect the damage caused to this time.