Online illegal sale of ＂wild puffer fish dried＂ experts： eating is risky.

　　As a kind of food, it is praised by puffer fish diners as the freshest in the world. In ancient times, there was a saying that "you don’t eat puffer fish, you don’t know the taste of fish". At the same time, puffer fish itself is highly toxic. These extreme characteristics cast a mysterious veil over the consumption of puffer fish.

　　Recently, however, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily found on a large domestic e-commerce platform that many local products merchants are selling dried puffer fish, and the price ranges from 30 yuan to 60 yuan per catty. Shops all claim that the dried puffer fish is a wild puffer fish caught by fishermen, and the dried puffer fish has been treated innocuously.

　　In view of this phenomenon, experts from the puffer fish branch of China Fisheries Association said that at present, all the sales of wild puffer fish are prohibited in China, and the sales of dried puffer fish are not recognized internationally.

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　　"Wild dried puffer fish", "non-toxic dried puffer fish" and "detoxified head and viscera" … … Recently, the reporter of Beiqing Daily found that many local products merchants on a large domestic e-commerce platform were selling dried puffer fish. As long as you enter "dried puffer fish" in the platform search, you can retrieve dozens of dried puffer fish caught and produced by your own workshops, and the price ranges from 30 yuan to 60 yuan per catty. Many merchants also directly write "wild puffer fish" in the product name.

　　The monthly sales of "wild dried puffer fish" in a "Lexian Seafood" store in Nantong, Jiangsu Province have exceeded 100. The salesperson inside the store told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that these puffer fish were "dried by fishermen themselves" and "all of them have been processed and can be safely eaten".

　　Another "Xingfeng Dry Goods" store in Shanwei, Guangdong Province is also selling "dried puffer fish by fishermen themselves". The reporter of Beiqing Daily saw from the product information page of the dried puffer fish in the store that the dried puffer fish was dehydrated in orange, which was about the size of an adult’s palm, and the fish head and skin were still preserved. In the introduction, the store wrote that "every process is completed by its own small workshop" and the production date is "hand-made recently".

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　　Salespeople don’t know their own puffer fish species.

　　The sales staff of "Xingfeng Dry Goods" also showed the reporter of Beiqing Daily the pictures of making and drying dried puffer fish. In the pictures, hundreds of slaughtered puffer fish were hung on a row of shelves by the sea for drying. When the reporter of Beiqing Daily asked what kind of puffer fish it was, the store said it was "wild and non-toxic", but when the reporter of Beiqing Daily continued to ask about the specific species of puffer fish, the store said it was "not very clear" and only knew that it was collectively called "puffer fish" and the local dialect was called "lovely breast".

　　The salesperson of "Lexian Seafood" told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that the puffer fish sold at home is a wild fugu obscurus, and stressed that "Nantong produces puffer fish, you can rest assured". When the reporter of Beiqing Daily asked whether wild puffer fish could be bought and sold, the store said with great certainty that "wild puffer fish can be bought and sold".

　　It is not uncommon for "bold" diners to buy dried puffer fish. The monthly sales volume of dried puffer fish in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province is 166, and the product evaluation is 241, which is in the forefront of the sales volume of dried puffer fish. In the product introduction, it is written that "the fisherman dries himself" and "the natural delicacy from the East China Sea". In the product evaluation, some consumers left a message that "wait a few days for additional comments, but they will die", and many consumers also reported that "when unpacking, the dry ice smelled bad", "moldy" and "broken and thrown away".

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　　Expert: Wild puffer fish is prohibited from being sold.

　　In view of the phenomenon of selling dried wild puffer fish online, Wang Changyu, deputy secretary-general of the puffer fish branch of China Fisheries Association, told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that Article 11 of the Notice on Conditionally Releasing the Processing and Operation of Cultured Takifugu rubripes and Cultured Takifugu obscurus issued by the Ministry of Agriculture on September 5, 2016 clearly pointed out that "it is forbidden to process and operate all kinds of wild takifugu". That is to say, "at present, all forms of wild puffer fish are prohibited from being sold in China", and the sale of dried wild puffer fish is naturally illegal.

　　According to Wang Changyu, there is a great risk in eating wild puffer fish, because "different species of puffer fish have different toxic sizes and toxic parts, some fish are poisonous, and some fish are poisonous." However, there are more than 40 species of wild puffer fish in China’s coastal areas, and the species caught naturally are often diverse, so it is impossible to determine the toxicity and toxic parts one by one. In addition, the wild puffer fish currently sold in the market are illegal, and it is impossible to guarantee whether the treatment process of puffer fish is compliant and whether the safety is up to standard.

　　In addition, the form of "dried puffer fish" is not allowed to be sold internationally. Wang Changyu told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that after the puffer fish is made into dried fish, its species characteristics will become unrecognizable. Even experts sometimes can’t tell which kind of puffer fish it is, let alone identify the toxicity of dried fish by naked eyes.

　　Wang Changyu reminded consumers that when buying and eating puffer fish products, they must choose qualified merchants. Legal puffer fish products will be accompanied by traceable QR codes on the packaging, and marked with the names of raw material bases and processing enterprises, record numbers, processing dates, shelf life, inspection information and other contents.

　　Among them, wild puffer fish, cultured live puffer fish and unprocessed whole puffer fish are currently prohibited from being sold, and consumers should avoid buying them. Text/reporter Li Zhuoya