Text/Photo Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Chen Liang
Recently, a parent in Shenzhen “surprisingly discovered in the locker of his 14-year-old son in junior high school. The original “family planning supplies” were hidden in Komiks. What’s even more “scary” is that these “supplies” disappeared in the blink of an 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”. Babaylan‘s 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 such commodities? What should parents do when they encounter their children buying this type of product? Yangcheng Evening News’ all-media reporter interviewed relevant educational, psychological and legal experts for this.
It is easy to lead to the formation of unhealthy sexual concepts
14-year-old Cinema is in an important stage of cognitive development among adolescents. Why do these “spoke candies” dressed in the guise of “family planning supplies” have a certain market in the teenagers? 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 still have strange, novel, fun and interesting appeal 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.
Fan Xinyuan, vice president of Guangdong Psychological Counselors Association, expert of Guangzhou Minor Protection Committee, and director of Guangzhou Yunxin Psychological Counseling Service Center, 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 be curious about strange things. “This kind of family planning candy with entertainment-style color will undoubtedly arouse children’s curiosity and desire to explore “sex”, so as to try to untie the secret of “sex”, and even have sexual behavior too early. Some criminals may also use their curiosity to seduce children with these items and sexually assault them.”
Cinema Member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Guangzhou City KomiksLawyer Zheng Ziyin, Director of the Minor Protection Committee of the Lawyer Association and Senior Partner of Guangdong Nuochen Law Firm, believes that this “spoken snack” not only fails to allow minors to understand sexual health knowledge, but also easily leads to their formation of unhealthy sexual concepts.
The “three-no products” have food safety hazards
In addition, this type of food often has food safety hazards. According to investigations, 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 the proceeds of the Cinema law. If serious, the business license will be revoked and criminal liability will 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. for minors should be produced and sold. When complying with national or industry standards, it shall not endanger the personal safety of minors and physical and mental health. “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 Komiks society, such phenomena can also be reported in a timely manner.” Zheng Ziyin said.
Parents are advised to take the opportunity to do a good job in sex education. Parents find that their children buy such “spoken candies” and often cannot hold back and often “provoke a gang and ask for guilt.” Regarding this, Fan Xinyuan suggested that parents should not be rush to hold accountable or be overly anxious. They can take this opportunity to sit down and talk with their children to understand their children’s recent changes and do a good job of guiding them.
“For sex education, we advocate ‘relieving’ rather than ‘blocking’, ‘guiding’ rather than ‘prevention’, ‘Cinema teaching’ rather than ‘hiding’.” Fan Xinyuan said that as parents, we should guide children in the form of scientific learning, and 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 minors occasionally try “spoke snacks” and it is hard to say that they will distort their personality. “However, if you always show interest in this 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, independent and scientifically, and not Cinema, who can 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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Party supervision departments rectify bad “Internet celebrity” foodsBabaylan
The reporter searched on the e-commerce platform and found that many stores package snacks into family planning supplies under the banner of “spoke gifts” to create so-called “Internet celebrity” foods. 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 Administration for Drug Administration jointly carried out the “four bests for food and drug safety in the country.The special action required by strict “required” and clearly proposed to attack the illegal food safety behavior of “Internet celebrity”. The State Administration for Market Regulation stated that it will attack the illegal food safety behaviors carried out by 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 mercy.
Since this year, market supervision and management departments in many places have carried out rectification of relevant “Internet celebrity” food. According to previous media reports, the market supervision department of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province has carried out special measures for some Internet celebrity snack stores. During the surprise inspection of Babaylan, it was found that there were 29 types of “Internet celebrity” snacks sold by two stores had problems, most of which were “spoken” candies. Among them, 8 types of products and 181 products did not have labels such as product standard codes, producer information and other labels and ingredients lists on the outer packaging. 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)