Industrial gelatin is a protein that is partially hydrolyzed from the connective or collagenous tissues of animals. It has many excellent physical and chemical properties, such as the formation of reversible gels, stickiness, and surface activity. It is widely used in the food industry as jellies, emulsifiers, stabilizers, adhesives, and clarifiers. In April 2012, there was an industrial gelatin made of leather shoes in old yogurt and jelly, which the jelly company denied. In response to this incident, the three major industry associations correct the names of old yogurt and jelly: no industrial gelatin will be added.
Industrial gelatin
industry
Industrial gelatin, a fine chemical, is a gelatin product divided according to the use of gelatin. In daily life, people divide gelatin into
(QB / 1995-2005)
project
standard value
Freezing strength (12.5% solution) / (Bloom g)
200
Brinell viscosity (12.5% solution) / (mpa.s)
6.0
You can perform the initial identification in the following three ways.
One. Industrial gelatin products are generally of poor quality, have more impurities, and have lower viscosity and toughness, so they are particularly fragile. If you find these in the products, you can basically judge that industrial gelatin is added.
two. Industrial gelatin products generally have bright colors. because
Industrial Gelatin Poison Capsules
In November 2012, five people were sentenced to a case in which Jiangxi used industrial gelatin to make poison capsules. The underground factory actually produced hollow poison capsules with industrial gelatin as raw materials, and the chemical chromium was over 140 times higher than the legal standard. These "gelatin poison capsules" were sold in other people's name after being repackaged [4] .
The highly concerned Ministry of Public Security supervised Jiangxi Chongren's "Poison Capsule" case and was sentenced in the first instance of the Chongren County People's Court of Jiangxi Province. The court sentenced the defendant Chongren Hengtai Capsule Factory Pan Kuancan to the court for the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. Two years' imprisonment, factory executive Le Bao'e (female) was sentenced to one year and six months, and plant technician Pan Shengcan was sentenced to one year in prison and fines ranging from RMB 100,000 to RMB 80,000.
In addition, the court also sentenced the defendant, Ye Linlong, to 8 months 'imprisonment for the crime of helping to destroy evidence; Chen Yunsheng was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment and suspended for 1 year.
"Poison capsules" made of industrial gelatin for underground factories
Chongren County Hengtai Pharmaceutical Capsule Factory, which is located in Area C of Chongren County Industrial Park, was established on August 22, 2006 by Pan and Li. After Pan had owed Lebao's loan, the factory was transferred. To Le Bao'e.
On September 28, 2011, Le Bao'e was registered as a shareholder and executive of the partnership affairs (factory director) after the change of business registration. When the factory was transferred to Le Bao'e, the original drug production license was valid until August 22, 2011, which has expired and has not been renewed, so the business scope of the company has also been changed from the original hollow capsule production and sales to hollow capsule technology advisory.
The reconstituted Hengtai Capsule Factory was invested by Le Bao'e, and Pan Kuancan was responsible for technology, production and sales.
Since October 2011, Le Bao'e has provided funds for the purchase of production machinery and equipment and raw materials. Pan Kuancan has entrusted his brother Pan Shengcan to purchase machinery and equipment from Chengguan Chenguang Electromechanical Research Institute, Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, and Changde, Hunan Province. The edible gelatin factory purchased 500 kg of raw edible gelatin used in the production of hollow capsules at a price of 36,000 yuan per ton.
In order to reduce production costs, Pan Kuancan also instructed Pan Shengcan to buy industrial gelatin for a total of 3,000 kilograms twice at a price of 28,000 yuan per ton in Panyu Town, Xinchang County. In addition, at the price of 25,000 yuan per ton, 1370 kilograms of unqualified capsules (waste capsules) after the production of capsules in other people's automatic assembly lines were purchased along the way.
Later, Pan Kuancan and others commissioned two capsule production lines. As a technician, Pan Shengcan instructed the workers to make gelatin, and was responsible for blending industrial gelatin, waste capsules, and capsules left by Hengtai Capsule Factory into raw materials, and mixing ingredients with edible gelatin to organize production Hollow capsule.
After investigation, from December 28, 2011 to the end of March 2012, Hengtai Capsule Factory produced a total of 4774.41 kilograms of medicinal hollow capsules.
Conceal the sea and change the packaging for export in the name of others
"Poison capsules" were produced, but they could not be sold because they did not have a drug sales approval number. How can they be sold? This was a problem for Le Bao'e.
At this time, Pan Kuancan proposed that if they wanted to sell, they could only sell in the name of other manufacturers. According to Pan Kuancan's confession, he asked Pan Shengcan to contact Wang Xiaoling, who rented a production line in Xinchang County Huaxing Capsule Factory to produce hollow capsules (Pan Shengcan's wife, handled in another case), and asked Wang Xiaoling to help him with an approval document and test sheet, and let Pan Shengcan bring A set of capsule packaging boxes of Xinchang Huaxing Capsule Factory. Later, he found a carton factory and ordered 300 sets in this style.
Pan Kuancan packed the "poison capsules" in a customized carton printed with the address, factory name, and drug production certificate number of Xinchang County Huaxing Capsule Factory. Then in the name of Xinchang County Huaxing Capsule Factory, the price was 45 yuan per 10,000 capsules. The price was 168 boxes of hollow capsules sold to a pharmaceutical factory in Liaoning Province through a logistics company, totaling 33.6 million capsules, weighing 2180 kg, and a total value of RMB 15,1200.
On April 16, when the Chongren County Drug Administration inspected the Hengtai Capsule Factory, it was found that the plant purchased only 500 kg of raw edible gelatin, but produced 2 951.41 kg of hollow capsules. The number of finished hollow capsules far exceeded that of raw materials. The purchase amount of gelatin differs greatly from the facts.
Chongren County Drug Supervision Bureau subsequently sealed off the production workshop of Hengtai Capsule Factory, the first floor of the office building and the first floor of the living quarters, and seized 2591.14 kilograms of hollow capsules (including semi-finished products), and sent a letter to Chongren County on April 23. The Public Security Bureau requested to be involved in the investigation.
The next day, Chongren County Public Security Bureau decided to investigate Pan Kuancan and others.
On the day of the seizure on April 16, Pan Kuancan and our factory worker Ye Linlong returned to the factory. In view of this situation, Pan Kuancan was worried that using other people's factory names for packaging sales would cause trouble, and further involved Xinchang Huaxing Capsule Factory.
In order to destroy the evidence, Pan Kuancan asked Ye Linlong to take the ladder to climb into the sealed production workshop from the place where the air conditioner was installed, and tossed the outer packing box with the words "Zhejiang Xinchang Huaxing Capsule Factory" stored in the workshop, together with the factory office Eight bags of industrial gelatin (200 kg in total) in one room were transported to the opposite idle plant, hidden in Rende Machinery Co., Ltd.
On April 19th, Pan Kuancan instructed another worker of our factory, Chen Yunsheng, to enter the back door of the sealed production workshop, and moved out the twenty or so outer carton boxes printed with "Zhejiang Xinchang Huaxing Capsule Factory", and then called Chen Yunsheng and Ye Linlong The cardboard boxes that were hidden in Rende Machinery Co., Ltd. were moved back to the open space outside the factory for incineration. Eight bags of industrial gelatin were found by Chen Yunsheng to feed a pig.
After repeated sampling tests by authoritative agencies, the hollow capsules produced by Hengtai Capsule Factory have seriously exceeded the chromium content. The lowest chromium content is 26 parts per million and the highest is 289 parts per million. According to the standards of the 2010 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, the chromium content must not exceed two parts per million.
On May 8, the Liaoning Food and Drug Inspection Institute commissioned by the Liaoning Food and Drug Administration to test that the hollow capsules sold by Hengtai Capsule Factory had a chromium content of 74 parts per million. Due to the serious chromium content exceeding the standard, the products it sold have been seized and destroyed by the local drug regulatory department.
The defendants sentenced to five in the first trial and sentenced respectively
After the incident, the case was listed as a listed supervision case by the Ministry of Public Security.
It is inconceivable that the three defendants, as so-called factory directors, administrators, and technicians, have only primary school or junior high school culture. According to Le Bao'e confession, she did not understand production, and entrusted Pan Kuancan to set up the factory solely for the purpose of making money, so she agreed to produce and sell hollow capsules, leaving everything else alone.
The court heard that the defendant Pan Kuancan, Le Bao'e, and Pan Shengcan mixed with toxic and harmful industrial gelatin and other non-food raw materials to produce and sell medicinal hollow capsules with a value of 3203208.2 yuan, of which the sales amount was 151200 yuan. The crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food is a joint crime. The defendants, Ye Linlong and Chen Yunsheng, knew that the Hengtai Capsule Factory had been sealed up and still helped others to destroy the evidence. They were joint crimes, and their actions constituted the crime of helping to destroy the evidence.
The court also found that the defendants Pan Kuancan, Le Bao'e, and Pan Shengcan pleaded guilty, and that the hollow capsules produced and sold had been destroyed and not used, without causing damage and should be punished lightly according to law. The defendant, Ye Linlong, pleaded guilty and should be given a lighter punishment in accordance with the law. After receiving the phone call from the public security organ, the defendant Chen Yunsheng took the initiative to come to the case and truthfully confess the criminal facts that helped destroy the evidence. He surrendered and should be given a lighter punishment according to law. The above judgment was comprehensively made according to the circumstances of each defendant's crime, harmful consequences, and the role played in the joint crime.
Underground factories use industrial gelatin to make poison capsules, the chromium content exceeds the standard by 140 times, which is terrible. Fortunately, the Jiangxi "Poison Capsule" case was seized and no one was sentenced, otherwise the poison capsules would flow into the market and would endanger the health of patients.
