Guangzhou Huangsha Fishery Market banned crayfish, stall owner hundreds of jins was destroyed

The City Food Safety Office clarified that there was no ban on sales, and whether the ban on sale of the yellow sand fishery market was legally impossible to determine “since the issue of crayfish has been rumors raised in recent days, crayfish sales have been cancelled for the sake of citizen safety. We are doing this Suffered in the first place.” Huangsha Fishery Market, deputy head of more than 3,000 yuan cargo was suddenly taken away yesterday morning, no reason for the confiscated crayfish stall Mr. Song in the market management department to run around to discuss. "No one informed, did not say the reason, saying destruction will be destroyed, there is Wang Fa?" Mr. Song looked angry.

Mr. Song has monopolized the crayfish in Huangsha Fishery Market for the past three years. “The goods were sent from Yueyang and passed through the security check.” At 7:00 a.m. yesterday, he carried back 6 boxes of 420 kilos from the train station as usual. The 3,000-yuan crayfish was stored in front of the stall and then went home to sleep. At 9 o'clock, he suddenly received a phone call and said that his crayfish had all been taken away by the security guard and transported to the dump site for destruction.

He immediately found the market management department's request to give a statement, why not give him a prior notice. The other party responded that it had previously notified that it would not sell crayfish. "But the newspaper didn't say it couldn't be sold?" Mr. Song questioned that the other party had neither found out that his crayfish had quality problems nor produced relevant documents. Mr. Song said that in fact, many stalls in the market sell crayfish, but only their own confiscated. He asked the other party to apologize and compensate for the loss.

Is banned "preventive"?

The reporter visited the fishery market yesterday and saw no crayfish on sale. However, he asked a number of stalls to be told, “There was a sale but it did not appear.”

The deputy head, Lin Liangzhi, said that Mr. Song was not their tenant. Instead, he rented the tenant's premises to store the goods. The security guard discovered the crayfish during the inspection and confiscated it. “After mid-to-late last month, one notice was forbidden to sell crayfish, and if they were found to be confiscated immediately,” Lin Liangzhi said, afterwards the company had sent someone to investigate the matter. He said that due to the recent crawfish issue was stirred up, for the sake of public safety, they canceled the sale of crayfish. “We are doing this in the first place.” Lin Liangzhi frankly stated that the superior department did not have a notice of ban.

The reporter has repeatedly asked whether he found Mr. Song's crayfish problematic, but Lin did not answer it directly. He only stated that the company had a strict entry system and set up a testing department.

As to why the market still has crayfish sales, Lin Liangzhi said that the stall owners secretly sold them. “We can't do anything. The periphery of the aquatic market is not ours.”

The City Food Safety Office has never passed a ban on sales. The reporter consulted Wang Fan, deputy director of the Guangzhou Food Safety Office. He even said that the Food Safety Office has not issued any notice or requirement regarding the ban on crayfish so far, saying that this move is purely a personal act of the enterprise. According to Wang Fan, as of now, the case of crayfish problem has not yet appeared in Guangzhou. As for the legitimacy of the yellow sand fish market ban on crayfish, they can not be identified for the time being.

Lawyers claim that the market has gone beyond the authority to enforce the law. “Whether or not the stall owner is their tenant, confiscating and destroying their cargo constitutes infringement,” Zhu Yongping, director of Guangdong Datong Law Firm, said in an interview. He said that the crayfish that was destroyed in the incident was the personal property of Mr. Song, the owner of the crawfish, and the fish market had no right to confiscated it. "Security does not have enforcement power, even if the executive branch commissioned." Zhu Yongping said that only the state functional departments found problems after the inspection of the goods before they can be confiscated according to law.

Regarding Mr. Song’s claim that he is not a fish market tenant, Zhu Yongping stated that the market management authority has the power to order him to suspend business. However, in this incident, the fishery market was obviously arbitrarily enforcing the law and was required to bear all liability for compensation.

Citizens responded recently that they did not dare to eat crayfish. The reporter interviewed a number of citizens yesterday. Most of them said that after the crayfish problem appeared, they did not dare to eat it. Tianhe Road, the largest Sichuan hot pot city, has stopped the supply of popular crawfish. An employee in the shop said: “The news is reported every day. We haven’t sold crayfish for a long time.” She explained that few customers have recently asked for crawfish.

“We appeal to relevant departments to give us a comfortable answer as soon as possible.” Miss Luo, the citizen, said that he would never eat crayfish until the official results have come out.