On March 2016: More than 100 thousand barrels of lead-contaminated C2 produced at URC were exported to Philippines

Proverb says that  “To understand the nature of a person, let see how he deals with his loved ones and his family.” Philippines country helped the originally Chinese families Gokongwei in their needs and created opportunities for them to get rich. According to the latest statistics on June 2016, among 10 richest billionaires in Philippines, there are 9 originally Chinese billionaires. These people possess and control the economy entirely and kept politically subversive positions. The representative of this clan, John Gokongwei – the Honorary Chairman of URC Group, is concurrently the 2nd richest man in Philippines with assets of up to USD 5.5 billion. Let see how the URC Group treat with Philippines people? !!

As mentioned in the previous article, the URC and Lance Gokongwei Group stated that “The incident involved only 02 shipments manufactured in VN and we have recovered several thousand barrels. I must say very clearly that there are no lead-contaminated products sold in the Philippines market. ” This is clearly a blatant lie by Lance Gokongwei!

Lance lied about not having any lead-contaminated products in VN  sold in Philippines market

How is the fact?

The data from URC Hanoi pointed out that monthly, there are a hundred  thousands of C2 barrels exported to URC Philippines and other countries. Specifically, only  on March 2016, URC Hanoi exported 107 136 barrels of C2 products to Philippines (equivalent to 2.57 million bottles of C2) through 2 order, as follows:

* The first order includes 67 456 barrels of C2 green tea (24x bottle 240ml / barrel), the price of one barrel for the parent company was only USD 1,87 (equivalent  to 0,078USD = 1,700 VND / bottle). The shipment was produced on late February 2016 which was the time when lead-poisoning products of URC Hanoi were really worst. The destination of the order is to the capital Manila, Philippines.

The second order includes 39 680 barrels of C2 green tea with shipments in the end of February and beginning on early March 2016.This order’s destination is Cebu City, Philippines.

It can be seen that all theses shipments (2,571,264 bottles of C2) were manufactured in Hanoi URC with production date closely to it of lead poisoning shipments required to recovery in VN (the shipment was manufactured on 4 February 2016). These lots both used Citric Acid material detected  getting severe lead poisoning and  imported from China. URC HN is well aware of this issue, the URC Group also knew that the lead content of these lots has exceeded that World Health Organization (WHO) recommended (0,05mg / l). Because if it exceeded the  safety threshold, the filtration and excretion system would be unable to undertake leading to the lead accumulation in the body causing immensely catastrophic consequences. Despite all and chasing the profit target, Mr. Jai Gamboa directed URC Hanoi to falsify the documents of internal tests to certify the safety of these  shipments to export to  Philippines !!!

Not only did the test results of the Vietnam Ministry of Health point out the exceeding lead content in C2 and Red Dragon, but also other independent test results performed by such the URC Group on the end of May – early June  2016 at the SGS testing center (one of the world’s leading test centers) to C2 products imported from VN with the lead content of 0,073mg / l and 6 other C2 batches produced in the Philippines both have the lead content exceeding the permitted standard of WHO (0,049-0,073mg / l) as shown in the following 2 results:

The product code-T7 RTD is for C2 green tea product manufactured in VN and  exported to Philippines. The  codes of  RTD-T1 to T6 are for C2 green tea products  produced at Pampanga and Calamba factories in Philippines.

The results showed that C2 products manufactured in VN are contaminated a extremely high level of lead. These are the test results from SGS Philippines, one of 1,800 offices and laboratories of SGS specializing in leading test all over the world

The test results for C2 apple taste produced at Pampanga plant, Philippines on 12 April 2016  revealed the extremely high lead – contamination 0,073mg / l

The test results for C2 originally produced at Pampanga factory, Philippines on 1 May 2016 indicated the extreme high lead-poisoning status 0,066mg / l.

As announced previously, the issue of producing lead-poisoning products is a systemic problem of the URC Group in which every line, every factory in Vietnam or the Philippines, Thailand and other ASEAN countries as well as in China and New Zealand are experiencing. Tens of billions products produced by the URC  Group over past years have lead poisoning and have been distributed to hundreds of millions people in many countries.

It can be claimed that “This is a disaster for food safety with the largest scale ever!”.

Currently, the majority of people knowing the information in Vietnam has boycotted all products of URC VN. Philippines people should be serious and careful; please protect yourself and loved ones by asking the relevant authorities to seriously jump to the bandwagon as the Vietnam Ministry of Health did. Be vigilant, do not let URC use the media and money to burry the incident and mitigate the consequences of lead poisoning in the mischief figures. Please share information to friends, family so that they know how to protect themselves. According to sources that I know, several months ago, one of my colleagues at the QA Department – URC Philippines, denounced the incident to Maria Lourdes C. Santiago, the Director of Philippines FDA (Food and Drug Administration, Philippines Department of Health), about  the issue in which URC Philippines used lead poisoning materials to manufacture its products with lead poisoning, but the incident seems to be hushed up by URC  successfully.

Thus, Lance Gokongwei  has lied Philippines people on the importing and selling lead-contaminated C2 products produced at URC Hanoi to Philippines market. More seriously, the SGS test results showed a truth  worse than a lot of times that “C2 produced in the Philippines has a much higher rate of lead poisoning than it  produced in Vietnam . It is estimated that the percentage of lead poisoning in the Philippines is over 80% (results of five sixth sample both indicated that the lead content exceeded the provision of the WHO) ”

Vietnamese and the Philippines people can not rely on anyone else, but save themselves and their own loved ones from lead poisoning disaster. Be wise consumers and let boycott all lead poisoning C2, Red Dragon products of URC!

Please speak your mind, Philippines people, do not keep silent. This is a matter of life and death of our loved ones.

Tran Ngoc Nga,

According to Viet-news.com