From 2065438 to September 2003, in Longsheng, Guangxi, a saying that "hookworms in pork don't rot in water, don't cook in oil, and can't be killed at high temperature" caught fire. In the following years, a number of rumors of derivatives and variants appeared one after another, involving Guangdong, Jiangsu, Liaoning and Sichuan. For example, WeChat WeChat official account "Sishun. com" 20 14 10 released "There is a large area of hookworm in pork in various regions! Pork has been banned in many areas! ! ","Taocun Bangbangle "was released on May 3, 20051,"Pay attention to buying meat, Weihai market has appeared, try to reduce eating pork! " Those things in Shanwei "2065438+released on September 28, 2006, a woman in Shanwei bought a piece of pork and found it was such a thing after cutting it open."
Truth In response to this rumor, the local media in Guangxi denied that "Hookworm in Pork" was false information on 20 13, and Guangxi Daily published a rumor in its official Weibo. 2065438+At the beginning of June 2006, the State Administration responded to this rumor, and many media such as People's Daily Online and Xinhuanet published rumors. At the 20 16 China food rumor forum held on June 27th, the China food rumor alliance released three major food rumors, among which the so-called "pork hookworm" was proved to be false.
Rumor 2 SB250 virus "72 change"
20 16 in March, two netizens in Yunnan province spread rumors on the internet, saying: "At 2: 021minute yesterday morning, a woman was infected with SB250 virus (variants include sk5 and H7N9, etc.). ), age 2 1. The doctors involved in the rescue have been quarantined. It is reported that this woman bought grass carp in the market and went home to make pickled fish, and was taken to the hospital. CCTV news has been broadcast. Since then, various versions of the rumor have been widely spread on social platforms, and the main content is roughly the same, but the time, place and name have been changed.
Truth So far, similar rumors have appeared in Yunnan, Shanghai, Fujian, Qinghai and other parts of the country. Local food and drug supervision, health, public security and other departments have joined forces with the media to dispel rumors, and many rumors and rumors have been punished, but the spread of similar rumors is still intensifying.
Myth 3: White eggs are more nutritious.
Before 2005, it was popular in society that "red preserved eggs were born by chickens, so red preserved eggs are more nutritious than white preserved eggs".
Truth In response to this statement, CCTV Health Channel refuted the rumor in a program called "Learn to Eat Eggs" on September 13, 2006, saying that there is almost no difference in nutrition between different eggshells. In the following years, the rumor debate about the difference between eggshell types and nutrition spread widely throughout the country with the network. During this period, China Food Science and Technology Network, Xinhua News Agency, Hunan Online and other media have published articles to refute popular science rumors, but there are still a large number of netizens asking questions on Baidu's answering platforms such as knowing and asking knowledge. This rumor even reached 20 1096 with a search volume of 14.
Proverbs 4: Injecting watermelon leads to poisoning.
In the summer of 20 16, it was the hot season of watermelon, and a message that "as long as there are yellow and white tendons in the pulp of watermelon, it means that this watermelon has been injected" went viral on major social platforms. In fact, this rumor appeared as early as 20 12, and it will revive every time watermelon sells well. On April 9, 20 15, the official account of WeChat posted "Don't eat this watermelon, it has poisoned 12 people ...", and today's headline "Wang Qi nutritionist" posted "Watermelon poisoning incident" on June 27, 20 16, telling family members not to eat watermelon by injection! ",WeChat WeChat official account" Parenting Recipes "20 16 10 10 released on October 22," These fruits have been tampered with, don't buy them for children! 》。
The Truth People's Daily, Ningbo Daily and other media have told the public through experiments that injecting watermelon is unprofitable and unworkable.
Proverbs 5 Persimmon yogurt is eaten to death together.
Since 2065438+September 2006, it has been circulated on the Internet that "children at home should pay attention: it is the season when persimmons are on the market ... a real thing just happened today: a little girl ate persimmons and drank yogurt, and died of poisoning in less than half an hour!"
As a matter of fact, this news has no details such as the time, place and person of the incident. I searched on the Internet with "persimmon+yogurt" as the key word. Recently, there was no public poisoning death caused by eating persimmon yogurt. It is understood that the saying that persimmons are poisoned together with yogurt and crabs appeared as early as 20 12. Chutian Evening News, Baotou Evening News and other media interviewed relevant experts on this statement, and all experts said that they had never heard of this statement.
Rumor six: a cucumber sprayed with medicine
"Straight cucumbers are sprayed with medicine, and curved cucumbers are natural." "Cucumber is curved, leek is short." Whenever cucumbers are hot, such a statement is madly transmitted on social platforms. Similar rumors reappeared on 20 16. Wechat official account "Kangnian" published "These things are not food, but poison" on September 7, and "Small Horn Promotion Platform" and "Leshan Real Estate Information" also published the same articles on September 14 and September 18 respectively.
20 15, the truth of "the straight cucumber was sprayed with medicine", appeared on the online rumor list, and well-known media such as the World Wide Web, People's Daily Online and Xinhuanet repeatedly denied rumors.
Rumor, seven poisons, bean sprouts, five poisons.
1985 "8503" rootless bean sprout growth regulator was successfully developed and widely used in China. On February 22nd, 20 10, Dahe Daily revealed the false news that "rootless auxin used by a bean sprout manufacturer in Zhengzhou is a hormone drug, and five additives can cause cancer".
Truth In response to this rumor, 2011.25 "Shell Network" rumor shredder column published an article to refute it at the first time. However, rootless bean sprouts were classified as "poisonous bean sprouts" after 20 1 1 were excluded from the list of food additives by the Ministry of Health and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. In the following years, many media published reports of oolong without scientific basis, exaggerating the harm of rootless bean sprouts, so that rootless bean sprouts were labeled as "five poisons" by rumors. For example, the legal news of 2065438+01April 20th defined Shenyang rootless bean sprouts as "using harmful illegal food additives". 20 15 10 13 was listed as "Top Ten Life Rumors in 20 14" by Beijing local websites and Baidu. On 15, the Food Safety Center of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government published a research report through a paper, which refuted the rumor again. 2065438+On May 2, 20051day, the US Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Health Planning Commission jointly issued the "Green Food Sprouting Vegetable" standard, which limited the amount of rootless agent used in bean sprouts.
Proverbs 8 "Saccharin Jujube"
2065438+September, 2005 1 day, qiongshan district, Haikou City, the US Food and Drug Administration and the police raided a fruit wholesale market in Haikou City, and seized and sealed 3.3 tons of suspected dates on a truck. After solving the case, the discussion about saccharin jujube incident never stopped. Over the past year, major social platforms have frequently exposed false statements that suspected saccharin dates reappeared. 20 16 September, a CCTV exposure: Don't buy this kind of jujube, no matter how sweet and red it is, it tastes bad! The video article of ""is madly transmitted on social platforms.
In fact, this video was broadcast on CCTV's Focus Interview on October 5th, 20 15/KLOC-0. Other written reports were also related news about Hainan saccharin jujube reported by media such as Nanhai.com at that time. Some rumors are even accompanied by news reports related to * * * attention and news live broadcast rooms. The nature of these rumors is to deliberately conceal the time, cause and investigation results of the news. The malice of misleading and spreading rumors is obvious, which makes people mistakenly think that "saccharin jujube" is making a comeback, thus causing public panic. In this regard, Hainan Daily, China Medical News and other media have refuted rumors, and Hainan Provincial Bureau has also conducted inspections recently, giving a strong response to the rumors.
Rumor 9 A food infection with H7N9 (pork, cherry, saute spicy chicken)
"Shanzui Village, Gangyaoling Town, Huludao City, Liaoning Province died of eating cherry infected with H7N9 yesterday afternoon ... Look, the news is true." This kind of news is widely spread in the circle of WeChat friends, with many versions. The content is almost the same, but the time, place, name, virus and food have all changed. 2065438+May 2006, WeChat friends circle circulated that someone in luoping town, Wuning County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province died of H7N9 infection due to eating pork; 2065438+From March to June, 2006, it was circulated in WeChat circle of friends that someone ate a large plate of chicken infected with H7N9 in Xining, and similar versions were also circulated in Anhui, Hubei, Huainan, Luoyang and Xianyang. 2065438+In May and June of 2006, men in Liaoning died of H7N9 infection after eating cherries, and similar versions of rumors appeared in Jinan, Shandong and Heze, Shandong.
The truth is aimed at the original situation of rumors about H7N9. The local media jointly denied rumors, and many well-known media such as People's Daily, Xinhuanet and Yang Guang. Com also constantly refutes rumors, but similar rumors are always repeated in Gang Po.
Rumor has it that ten blue crabs have injections.
20 16, 16, July 5, a video of injecting blue crabs went viral on social platforms. The video shows that an aunt injected unknown liquid into the blue crab with a syringe, and netizens speculated that the injections were carotene, yellow powder, crab paste and urea essence, which caused widespread public discussion. This online rumor is actually the same trick. As early as 20 15 and August 12, "Three-door food safety Taizhou market supervision" released "blue crab injection? ! Not credible! ! ! "News.
The truth is about the false information such as "blue crab injection" and "blue crab water injection" that reappeared in the rivers and lakes on 20 16. The People's Daily, Modern Jinbao and other media once again denied rumors, confirming that this statement is unreliable and unreliable.
Rumor 1 1 "storm" about the use of contraceptives in food
200 1, 12, Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology News refuted the rumors about the use of contraceptives to promote the feeding of Monopterus albus. On April 4, 2004, CCTV's Weekly Quality Report revealed that some vendors in Nanjing revealed that they were using contraceptives to breed Monopterus albus. In the same year, CCTV Health Channel refuted the rumor in June 5438+1October 65438+April. However, during this period, many media reprinted this false news. On June 27, 2007, the column of Happy Life of Beijing TV revealed that the vegetable vendor himself revealed that the medicinal liquid sprayed when planting cucumbers was similar in nature to contraceptive pills.
Truth June 65438+May 2009, China Food Science and Technology Network confirmed that the drug sprayed on cucumber was plant sex hormone. In the following years, the hormonal components contained in birth control pills were disputed by netizens and were repeatedly regarded as "ripening agents" for various agricultural products and aquatic products. 2065438+On September 29th, 2005, the China Food Rumor Alliance released the first food rumor list in China, pointing out that eel farming has nothing to do with contraceptives.
Rumor 12 crayfish is used to dispose of the body.
On September 17, 2003, CCTV Life Channel received a letter from the audience, saying that crayfish contained harmful substances and the living environment was dirty and messy, and conducted a special investigation to refute the statement that crayfish was harmful and the living environment was dirty and messy. In June 2005, a rumor appeared in Baidu Post Bar that "crayfish were used to dispose of corpses during World War II", which was widely reprinted in Post Bar and Tianya Forum, causing heated discussion. On July 24, 2006, Liberation Daily refuted this rumor, saying that although crayfish can survive in polluted waters, it does not mean that they only live in polluted waters. Heavy metals are really easy to accumulate in the brain, but the body will not store them. However, contrary to expectations, the rumors further fermented, and there appeared a derivative rumor that "crayfish is not a shrimp but a worm" and "foreigners dare not eat it".
Truth 201119 The Beijing News once again invited agricultural experts to publish articles to refute rumors, and public opinion began to subside. 20 14 People's Daily Online, Guangming.com and other mainstream media also published articles about the health of crayfish in response to rumors about crayfish.
Rumor 13 KFC and McDonald's use genetically modified chickens.
Since 2008, rumors about KFC's "six-winged chicken" and "spider chicken" have spread wildly all over the country. Many people also associate the six-winged chicken with genetic modification, fearing that they will have genetic variation after eating the six-winged chicken. By the end of April, 20 15, there were more than 4,000 articles related to WeChat official accounts, and the number of posts with accounts exceeding 130 reached 10, among which 10 came from WeChat official accounts, such as Men and Women in Guangzhou, Buddhist Quotations in China and Zero Health Care. In these articles, the untrue content was rated as one of the "eight outrageous events" by the media as early as 2008.
After the truth came out, many media outlets, such as Xinmin.com, People.com, Sina.com, Sohu.com, etc., refuted rumors one after another, but the results were minimal. On may 26th, 20 15, KFC sued this 10 wechat official account as the first batch of objects. At the beginning of February 20 16, the court of first instance ruled that the three defendants involved in the official account of 10 wechat apologized in a prominent position on the front page of the news column of the mainstream portal website, and determined to compensate the plaintiff for economic losses and reasonable rights protection expenses of 600,000 yuan as appropriate.
Rumor 14 drinking milk can cause cancer.
June 5438+February 65438+February 2003, Campbell, an American nutrition professor, put forward the view that drinking a lot of milk and eating too much animal protein in Shanghai will "promote" cancer cells with high protein. On June 3, 2004, Nanfang Daily published a report that a British professor believed that dairy products were a catalyst for human carcinogenesis. In the following years, a large number of foreign articles on the harm of milk to human body were widely reprinted on Sina blog, Baidu Post Bar and various community forums, and even spread on websites such as "Bio Valley" and "Health Online".
Truth In response to this statement, Life Times interviewed Professor Campbell and domestic experts by telephone on June 5438+February 65438+February 9, 2006, and denied for the first time that the "milk carcinogenesis theory" belongs to the study of alcohol consumption and western dietary structure. On March 23rd, 2007, the website of the Ministry of Health published a signed article entitled "Health Education Should Respect Science and Facts-Refuting the Harmfulness of Milk" written by authoritative experts in China 15. On May 30th, 3 1, People's Daily published a full page of rumors and knowledge about milk health. Today, the saying that "milk causes cancer" on major social platforms is still confusing people. The article "Milk sends human beings to the grave of cancer", which was madly circulated in the circle of friends, once pushed the safety of milk to the cusp of public opinion.
Rumor 15 instant noodles are "junk food"
From June 5438 to 10, 2003, the "World Top Ten Junk Foods (List) published by the World Health Organization" was reprinted on food websites such as Huaxia Jingwei and Bio-Valley, and mainstream portals such as Sohu and Sina, including convenience foods, which were called "containing preservatives and flavors, with only calories and no nutrition". This view confirms the public's cognition of instant noodles and has been deeply rooted in people's hearts since then.
The Truth On September 29th, 2004, China Food Science and Technology Network invited relevant professors to refute rumors and introduce the nutritional components of instant noodles for the first time. However, similar popular science propaganda has little impact and still cannot reverse the stereotype of instant noodles. 20 10 1 1 There is even an escalation rumor of "eating a bowl of instant noodles for 32 days to detoxify and nourish the liver", which is similar to the negative side of instant noodles.
On September 9th, 20 16, the "convenient food rumor conference" sponsored by China Food Rumor Alliance and China Food Science and Technology Research Institute was held in Beijing. On-site experts interpret the rumors of instant noodles that have plagued consumers for a long time and lasted for a long time one by one, and major news media also "correct their names" for instant noodles.
Rumor 16 chlorine in tap water can cause cancer
Since 20 14, an article "steaming hot rice causes a bloody case!" It has been circulating on WeChat platforms all over the country. See if you kill yourself every day! This paper introduces cooking with cold water. After heating, chlorine in tap water will be coated on food, which will cause cancer. So be sure to open the lid and boil the water before cooking food. On March 4 -8, 20 15, many official WeChat accounts still forwarded this article, including daily micro-publication, Yige Beauty Industry, Jinhua People's Pharmacy and People's Health.
People's Daily, Sohu.com, Beijing News.com and many other media have published articles to refute rumors.
Rumor 17 microwave oven causes cancer.
On April 23, 2002, Life Times published a rumor message "Don't ignore the harm of microwave ovens", because a few reprints did not form a hot topic of public opinion. On September 17, 2003, China Youth Daily published a compiled article entitled "Microwave food does more harm than good and is extremely harmful to health", and put forward the extreme view that microwave food is harmful to health and even carcinogenic. The author's title was also exaggerated by the translator and reprinted by many media, which triggered public doubts about the safety of microwave food heating.
Truth 65438+February 1 Xinhuanet Tianjin Channel invited relevant government personnel and experts to make a special website about microwave oven knowledge, so as to refute rumors in all directions. In the same year, sohu finance characterized this matter as a public opinion business war against domestic microwave oven enterprises. 20/kloc-in February, 2003, rumors such as "Please stop using the microwave oven" and "The amazing secret that the microwave oven manufacturer won't tell even after killing" went viral on social platforms. In response to this statement, in April of 20 13, China Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute and the National Center for Food Quality Supervision and Inspection held a press conference on the research results of "the influence of microwave cooking on food safety and nutrition", which refuted the theory of microwave harm. 20 14 May, faced with the false statement that "microwave ovens cause cancer" after repeated rumors, CCTV's "Focus Interview" column responded to this matter on May 20 14 and 12, proving that the theory of microwave ovens is not true, and exposing the official account of WeChat, the initiator of the rumor, "Natural Medicine Health Preservation" and other related health preservation. This article claims to be reprinted from People's Daily on 20 16 and 65448, but it doesn't mention any basic information such as the original publication date and layout, and the writing format is quite different from the traditional news writing mode. It is understood that People's Daily has never published any article about "stopping using microwave ovens". Four years ago, it published an article refuting the statement that "microwave ovens cause cancer".
Rumor 18 Houttuynia cordata Thunb. is carcinogenic
On 20 16, 16, "Hippocrates Disciple" published a long microblog "Houttuynia cordata Thunb and Aristolochia Nephropathy", saying that Houttuynia cordata Thunb contains aristolochia lactam, which may induce nephropathy and cause cancer, causing hot discussion among netizens.
Truth In fact, the statement that Houttuynia cordata induces nephropathy and carcinogenesis originated from the statement of popular science writer Fang in 20 14 that eating Houttuynia cordata often leads to renal failure. On June 2065438, China Food Rumors Forum, China Food Rumors Alliance released three major food rumors. The statement that Houttuynia cordata can cause kidney disease and kidney cancer circulated on the Internet was judged by experts as imprecise in logical deduction and prudent in conclusion.
Proverbs nineteen small molecular collagen anti-aging
At the beginning of 20 14, artist Jimmy Lin became a hot topic with his "Reverse Growth". Among the products launched by his company, there is a collagen beverage with "small molecular collagen" as the main raw material. This is the secret of Jimmy Lin's advertisement that he is not old, but there is no evidence that "small molecular collagen" can help beauty and skin care.
Since the truth 20 14, many cosmetic medical experts have refuted this statement. 20 15, 1, Wenzhou Evening News, Yangcheng Evening News, Guangzhou Daily, Metropolitan Express and Beijing TV all refuted the false statement that "small molecular collagen is anti-aging" on their official WeChat accounts. Up to now, there are still many beauty products under the banner of "small molecular collagen".