Shanghai People's Hospital.
After a few simple questions from the staff, the owner of Jiajia Fast Food Restaurant spilled everything she knew, like beans pouring from a bamboo tube.
After verifying the statements with the store employees, it was confirmed that they were consistent and accurate.
"Does this count as turning myself in? Can I get a lighter sentence and have the fine reduced?" Liu Jia asked, looking at everyone present with expectant eyes.
"Do you think this is a vegetable market where you can haggle? Your sentence is not up to us, but is determined by the public security bureau's investigation and the court's final conviction."
Upon hearing about the public security organs and the court, Liu Jia was immediately at a loss.
No, I just used expired ingredients, how did it become such a serious matter? It involves the police and the courts, shouldn't it just be a fine and a deduction from my paycheck? Are they trying to intimidate me? Do they want me to pay more money?
Thinking of this, Liu Jia forced herself to sit up in bed, her face full of fear, and asked, "It's not that serious, is it? I did use inappropriate ingredients, but it shouldn't be enough to go to the police station, right? Tell me how much you want to fine me. As long as it doesn't involve the police, I'll accept whatever the fine is."
“Your current situation is not due to hygiene issues, which still gives you a chance to rectify the situation. However, the food products from your shop have already endangered the health and safety of the public.”
After saying this, the middle-aged man took out his phone and called the relevant personnel. Their work was done, and the police would take over next.
During this time, Liu Jia still held onto a sliver of hope, pleading desperately for a chance to turn things around.
But her hopes were shattered when police officers appeared at the ward door.
She panicked and started saying things she shouldn't have.
"Why are you only arresting me? I'm not the only one using expired ingredients! The Hao You Lai fast food restaurant on the back street! The boxed lunch stalls at the construction site entrance! Including those around me, even the restaurant inside the construction site, they all use expired ingredients! Why are you only arresting me!"
Upon hearing this, everyone present became serious.
The middle-aged man at the head of the group perked up. Was this... a self-destruction?
If what Liu Jia said is true, this is no longer a simple food safety issue of a few individual stores; it is a food safety problem affecting the entire city of Haishi!
Seeing the change in their expressions, Liu Jia became even more frantic: "I saw it with my own eyes! Old Liu, the owner of Hao You Lai fast food restaurant, that blond young man in charge of purchasing at the construction site, and those two punks selling boxed lunches at the construction site gate—they were carrying the same goods as me. Go and arrest them too, hurry up!"
Regardless of whether her accusations are baseless or not, this concerns the food safety of the entire city and must be thoroughly investigated!
Liu Jia, whose health had not yet fully recovered, had to remain in the hospital under the care of designated personnel. The remaining staff all returned to their respective units and urgently reported the situation to their superiors.
Within just two hours, a comprehensive inspection was conducted on restaurants, stalls, and meat wholesale markets.
The area near the Bauhinia Garden construction site will naturally be the first to be affected.
This time, unlike the morning's inspection which relied on personal senses such as smell and touch, all food samples were taken and sent to the food testing center for individual testing.
With Xu Dongliang eating and drinking heartily on the side, a few bolder coworkers were finally attracted, and five meals were sold, leaving four boxed meals on the stall.
Since the boxed meals weren't sold out, Xu Heping couldn't lie down in the shade and play on his phone as usual. He could only squat behind the stall, playing games and calling out to sell his wares.
Suddenly a police car drove up and stopped right in front of the construction site gate.
Four people got out of the car: three men and one woman, each carrying a large black bag.
The four exchanged a glance and then each went in a different direction.
One of them walked directly towards Xu Heping's stall, stopped in front of it, and said coldly, "Routine food safety inspection. Please register your personal information: name, address, and ID number."
Uncle Dongliang had reminded them about this matter that morning, and since they have always been law-abiding, they remained calm when they saw the police and answered all their questions without any concealment.
After registering the information, the person randomly pointed to three boxed meals on the stall, took out several transparent sealed bags, randomly sampled from the three boxed meals, put them in the bags, and finally attached a barcode to complete the process.
Not only Xu Heping's boxed lunch stall, but also the fried rice stall next door, the whole row of restaurants across the street, and the canteen inside the factory, all of which were sampled, from finished products to raw materials.
Not only in the Bauhinia Garden, but also in various towns and cities throughout Shanghai, their presence was felt.
Xu An's side was no exception.
However, Xu An was in a bit of an awkward situation. When the testing personnel arrived, he had already delivered all the boxed meals, and the stall was empty except for a few soup dregs in the soup bucket.
After a brief discussion, it was decided that one person would stay behind to accompany Xu An back to Xujia Village to collect food samples, while the others would proceed as planned.
The citywide food safety inspection is no small matter; it involves thousands of people and items.
Zhang Daoyi learned of the operation shortly after it began.
In the past, it would take several meetings, large and small, to finalize an operation. This time, however, it was launched quietly. There is only one explanation for this situation—something has happened somewhere!
Zhang Daoyi quickly inquired around and finally confirmed that more than ten workers at the Zijing Garden construction site had been hospitalized due to food poisoning.
He remembered that several restaurants in the Bauhinia Garden sourced their ingredients from his family, and wondered if they had run into trouble.
Better safe than sorry. We still need to take precautions!
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