Text/Photo: All-Media Reporter Chen Liang of Yangcheng Evening News
Recently, a parent in Shenzhen made an “amazing discovery” in the locker of his 14-year-old son who was in junior high school. It turned out that there were “family planning supplies” hidden inside. What’s even more “scary” is that these “supplies” disappeared in the blink of an eye in the afternoon. After asking, I realized that this was a “spoken candy” packaged by the merchant as “family planning supplies”. The touch felt almost the same as that of “family planning supplies”. My son ate it after school. The report immediately aroused enthusiastic attention from the society. What impact will this type of product have on the student consumer group? How should society strengthen governance of this type of Komiks products? What should parents do when they encounter their children buying this type of product? Yangcheng Evening News All-Media reporters interviewed relevant education, psychology and legal experts for this.
It is easy to lead to the formation of unhealthy sexual concepts
The age of 14 is in an important stage of cognitive development of adolescents. Why can these “spoke candies” dressed in the guise of “family planning supplies” have a certain market in the teenager group? Mu Yan, associate professor of the Department of Psychology at Sun Yat-sen University, pointed out that this marketing method that uses curiosity psychology should have been difficult to continuously attract customers, but the product can be spread among the teenage students, which shows that ordinary family planning products are still unfamiliar, novel, fun and interesting attraction in their immature minds. It even adds a strange “taboo temptation” because these curiosity products are prohibited areas that are not allowed to be contacted.
Vice president of Guangdong Psychological Counselors Association and BabaylanAdults in GuangzhouBabaylanAdult Counseling Committee Expert and Director of Guangzhou Yunxin Psychological Counseling Service Center Fan Xinyuan said that middle school students have entered adolescence and are at the peak of physical and mental development. They will pay attention to changes in their physiological characteristics and will be full of curiosity about strange things.. “This kind of family planning product-style candy with entertainment colors will undoubtedly arouse children’s curiosity and desire to explore “sex”, thereby trying to unravel the mystery of “sex” and even have sexual behavior too early. Some criminals may also use their children’s curiosity to seduce children with these items and sexually assault them.”
Lawyer Zheng Ziyin, a member of the Guangzhou Municipal CPPCC, director of the Minor Protection Committee of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association, and senior partner of Guangdong Nuochen Law Firm, believes that this “spoke snack” not only cannot make minors understand sexual health knowledge, but also can easily lead to them forming unhealthy sexual concepts.
The “three-no products” have food safety risksCinema
In addition, this type of food often has food safety risks. According to surveys, many of these products are “three-no products”, which have a negative impact on students’ physical and mental health. Zheng Ziyin pointed out that according to the Food Safety Law, if food products that do not meet the food safety standards are produced, the relevant departments shall impose fines and confiscate illegal gains. In serious cases, the business license will be revoked. If it constitutes a crime, criminal liability must be borne in accordance with the law.
At the same time, according to the “Law on Protection of Minors”, it is the responsibility of the whole society to protect minors. In the social protection part, it is also stipulated that the production and sale of food, toys, utensils, etc. used for minors should comply with national or industry standards and shall not endanger the personal safety and physical and mental health of minors. “The regulatory authorities should strengthen supervision and management. If the platform finds such unscrupulous merchants, they should take timely disposal measures and report to the relevant departments. As a member of the society, they can also report such phenomena in a timely manner.” Zheng Ziyin said.
It is recommended that parents take the opportunity to do a good job in sex education.
Parents find that their children buy such “spoken candies” often feel uneasy. They often “provoke a gang and ask for guilt.” In this regard, Fan Xinyuan suggested that parents should not be in a hurry to hold accountable or be overly anxious., you can take this opportunity to sit down and talk with your child, understand the recent changes in the child, and do a good job of guiding.
“For sex education, we advocate “reluctance” rather than “Komiks”, which is “guidance” rather than “prevention”, and “teaching” rather than “hiding”. “Fan Xinyuan said that as parents, we should guide children in a scientific way to face their curiosity, let them learn and understand sexual knowledge through normal channels, strengthen their own prevention, and avoid sexual harm.
She also called on relevant departments to pay attention to it and conduct regular inspections of food merchants in the market.
Mu Yan said that it is hard to say that minors will distort their personalities by occasionally trying “spoken snacks”. “However, if you always show interest in this kind of curious product, it reflects an irrational habit of thinking that is superficial and inability to go deep. As a student, you should be clear. Learning knowledge and exploring the unknown ultimately means becoming a person who can think rationally, independently, and scientifically make decisions. You cannot be attracted by the appearance of things and go with the flow, and thus fall into the habitual mental laziness of not thinking deeply.”
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The market supervision department rectifies bad “Internet celebrityBabaylan” food
The reporter searched on the e-commerce platform and found that many stores packaged zero-member food into family planning products under the banner of “spoke gifts” to create so-called “Internet celebrity” food. However, these spoof snack packaging often do not have any information such as manufacturer, shelf life, production address, etc., which poses huge hidden dangers to food safety.
In response to this situation, as early as September 2019, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the State Drug Administration jointly carried out a special action on implementing the “four strictest” requirements for food and drug safety across the country, and clearly proposed to take a heavy blow to the illegal behavior of “Internet celebrities” food safety. State Administration for Market RegulationHe said that he would take a heavy blow to food safety violations committed using channels such as the Internet, e-commerce platforms, social media, and TV shopping columns. Once unqualified food is found, it will be investigated and dealt with immediately without any mercy.
Since this year, market supervision and management departments in many places have carried out rectification of relevant “Internet celebrity” foods. According to previous media reports, the market supervision department of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province conducted a special surprise inspection on some internet celebrity snack stores. It was found that there were 29 types and 503 “Internet celebrity” snacks sold by two stores, most of which were “spoke” candies. Among them, 8 types of products, 181 products are not marked with product standard codes, producer information and other labels and ingredients lists. They are veritable “three-no” foods. Law enforcement officers immediately took compulsory seizure measures on all the above products and will investigate the above two stores. (Ding Ling)