Guo Jingbo: it's time to set a "spectrum" for aquatic product packaging.

"you should go to the supermarket to see frozen shrimp, half shrimp and half water." Ms. Xu called the news hotline to break the news. The reporter then went to the Century Lianhua supermarket to buy a bag of shrimp for an experiment. The frozen shrimp weighing 211.5 grams left only 58 grams after thawing (Modern Golden Daily on October 12).

Tampering with the "packaging" of aquatic products is no longer news in the industry. A few days ago, Modern Golden Daily also reported that a consumer bought green crabs in the market and found that the rope tied to each green crab was more than 30 meters long and the rope accounted for more than 20%.

It is true that frozen shrimps need ice to keep fresh, and green crabs also need ropes, but the weight of ice is 3 times that of shrimps, and more than 30 meters of rope binding green crabs is a bit unreliable. But it is difficult to say that he is "outrageous", because there is no standard for the net content of frozen aquatic products and the standard for how long and multiple ropes are required to bind green crabs, that is to say, there is no such "spectrum" in the law at all.

Without "spectrum", it is difficult to determine that these unscrupulous businesses break the law, and consumers naturally become aggrieved. It may not be a big deal for the whole country, but for Ningbo people who "live on the sea" and live on seafood and river food, it is a thing, even if there is no unified standard for the packaging of aquatic products in the country. Ningbo can give full play to the advantage of local legislative power to set a "formula" for aquatic product packaging.

The author checked it on the Internet and found that Xiamen, which is also a coastal city, took the lead in this respect. The regulations on the Management of Xiamen Aquatic products Wholesale Market (revised draft) stipulates that the packaging of aquatic products should indicate the product name, origin, production date, shelf life, product quality grade, producer and other information, as well as the time and place of fishing or breeding of live (fresh) aquatic products.

Of course, Xiamen's regulations are mainly based on quality and safety, and there seems to be a lack of regulations on the proportion of packaging. Ningbo can improve it on the basis of reference, for example, it can stipulate that the net weight of aquatic products must be marked, or stipulate that the weight of packaging such as freezing and rope shall not exceed the proportion of net weight, and so on. If this ratio is exceeded, it should be regarded as a fraud to consumers. Law enforcement agencies can impose heavy penalties, and consumers can also demand three times compensation.

Before the promulgation of this "spectrum", law enforcement departments should also use basic social common sense and make active use of relevant laws and regulations to solve the practical problems troubling the masses in a timely manner. There is a scale between heaven and earth, the weight is the common people, and the common sense of life of the common people is also "spectrum". For example, the "Qingdao prawns" incident that just happened, in theory, the merchant has the pricing power. Whether you like to eat 38 yuan or not, but whether it is 38 yuan per plate or 38 yuan per plate, you can't explain it as much as you want.