In the supermarket, a warm reminder "No selling betelnut and its products, cigarettes and alcohol to minors" was posted in a prominent position Putian, Southeastern. com, June 18, 2007 (our reporter Jin Jingjing/photo) Recently, Southeastern. com launched a series of reports, such as "Areca Surrounds Campus Parents Worried", which continued to focus on the phenomenon of selling betel nuts in convenience stores near primary and secondary schools, causing widespread social concern. In response to this problem, the Market Supervision Bureau of Licheng District, Putian City launched a rectification action on the sale of betel nuts in supermarkets and grocery stores around the campus, and achieved remarkable results. On June 14, a reporter from Southeast Net visited the first experimental primary school, Linfeng primary school, Meifeng primary school and other schools in Licheng District, and found that many convenience stores that had previously sold betel nuts had removed themselves from the shelves and no longer sold betel nuts. In a convenience store near Putian No. 9 Middle School, although there are still betel nuts, a warm prompt sign of "No selling betel nuts and products, tobacco and alcohol to minors" was posted at a prominent position in the store. 
A convenience store around the campus has taken off the shelf by itself and no longer sells betel nuts A shop assistant who was busy in the shop told the reporter: "The staff of Licheng District Market Supervision Bureau has further explained to us the knowledge that betel nuts are harmful to our health, especially that teenagers should stay away from betel nuts. As a businessman, we not only cannot sell betel nuts to students, but also have the responsibility to discourage children from staying away from betel nuts." Some shop assistants believe that, Even if there is a certain consumption demand, the harm of betel nut is so obvious that its sales should be restricted or prohibited from the source. It is understood that the Market Supervision Bureau of Licheng District has formulated the Notice on Food Operators Not to Sell Betel Nut and Betel Nut Products as Food in this rectification action, and staff members have carried out betel nut related legal knowledge and health science publicity to operators from door to door. The bureau also advocates that some supermarket and grocery store operators around the campus fulfill their social responsibilities, protect the health of minors, and do not promote and sell betel nuts and their products to minors. According to statistics, the Regulatory Bureau has posted more than 300 warm reminders of "No sales of betel nuts and products, tobacco and alcohol to minors" among food operators around primary and secondary schools in the area under its jurisdiction. This rectification action has caused wide repercussions in all sectors of society. "The Market Supervision Bureau of Licheng District has taken positive action, increased efforts to investigate the sales of betel nuts around the campus, purified the surrounding environment of the campus, and protected the healthy and safe growth of minors." Chen Huayuan, the principal of Meifeng Primary School, said that the school has carried out a series of publicity about the harmfulness of betel nuts, and through the way of "speech under the flag", advised children not to contact betel nuts and betel nut products; In the class meeting class, the instructor explained the harmful knowledge of betel nut to the students in the class; In addition, the school also distributed a census table to count whether students have contacted betel nut products. For students who have contacted betel nut products, the school will arrange special teachers to carry out point-to-point education. The school will also draw inferences from other cases, strengthen the inspection of harmful food, unhealthy food and three no food, eliminate the potential safety hazards around the campus, and protect the physical and mental health of young people. At the same time, many parents of students said that betel nut is extremely harmful, children have poor self-control, and there are great hidden dangers in the sale of betel nut in stores around the campus. As parents, they will strengthen the reminding and education for children, so that children will consciously stay away from betel nut and betel nut products. What about other places in Putian? On June 17, the reporter called the head of the Food Circulation Department of the Market Supervision Bureau of Putian City. The person in charge said that the municipal bureau required the market supervision bureaus of all counties and districts (management committees) to carry out standardized sales promotion activities for betel nut and betel nut products, but did not specifically require the rectification action for the sale of betel nut in supermarkets and grocery stores around the campus. Both Hanjiang District Market Supervision Bureau and Xiuyu District Market Supervision Bureau said that they had carried out relevant activities. The relevant person in charge of the Food Unit of the Market Supervision Bureau of Hanjiang District revealed that areca was not approved as a new food raw material and was not included in the list of substances that are traditionally both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, areca and its products are not food. However, there is a lack of legal basis for the supervision and law enforcement of areca sales. In this activity, the bureau mainly supervised that businesses should not mix betelnut and food for sale, nor sell betelnut and its products in food packaging and labeling, and advised businesses not to sell betelnut and its products to minors. |
