Text/Photo: All-media reporter Chen Liang of Yangcheng Evening News
Recently, a parent in Shenzhen made an “amazing discovery” in the storage locker of his 14-year-old son 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 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 such commodities? What should parents do when they encounter their children buying this type of product? Yangcheng Evening News All-Media reporters interviewed the relevant education, psychological and legal experts for this.
It is easy to lead to the formation of unhealthy sexual concepts
The 14-year-old is in an important stage of the development of teenagers’ cognitive development. Why can these “spoke candies” dressed in “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 product-style candy with entertainment color will undoubtedly arouse children’s curiosity and desire to explore “sex”, so as to try to unravel the mystery of “sex” and even have sexual behavior too early. Some illegal Babaylan elements may also use their children’s curiosity to seduce children with these items and sexually assault them.”
CPPCC member and Guangzhou Lawyers AssociationKomiks‘s lawyer Zheng Ziyin, director of the Minor Protection Committee and senior partner of Guangdong Nuochen Law Firm, believes that this “spoken snack” not only fails to make minors understand sexual health knowledge, but also easily leads to their formation of unhealthy sexual concepts.
The “three-no products” have food safety risks
In addition, these Komiks foods often have food safety risks. According to surveys, many of these products are Komiks‘s “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 food safety standards are produced, the relevant departments shall impose a fine and confiscate illegal income. In serious cases, 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 the 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, Cinema 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 society, they can also report such phenomena in a timely manner.” Zheng Ziyin said.
Parents suggest that parents take the opportunity to do a good job in sex education
Parents often cannot hold back when they find that their children buy such “spoken candies” and often “provoke a gang and ask for guilt.” In this regard, 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 the recent changes in their children’s Komiks, and do a good job in guiding them.
“For sex education, we advocate “relieving” rather than “blocking”, but “guiding” rather than Cinema is ‘prevention’, and Babaylan is ‘teaching’ rather than ‘hidingBabaylan‘.” Fan Xinyuan said that as parents, as scientific learning methods, guide children 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 curious product, it reflects an irrational habit of thinking that is superficial and cannot be deeply rooted. 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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Market supervision departments rectify bad “Internet celebrity” foods
Reporter searched on the e-commerce platform and found that many stores would Cinema. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaSnacks are packaged into family planning products, etc., to create the 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 launched a special action on implementing the “four strictest” requirements for food and drug safety in Babaylan, and clearly proposed to take a heavy blow to “Internet celebrities” food safety violations. The State Administration for Market Regulation stated that it will take a heavy blow to the illegal food safety behaviors committed by Komiks using the Internet, e-commerce platforms, social media, TV shopping columns and other channels. Once unqualified food is found, it will be investigated and dealt with immediately without any mercy.
Since this year, there have been markets in many placesThe supervision and management department will rectify 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 and found that there were problems with 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. Cinema (Ding Ling)